Employee onboarding process for Concert promoters: briefing show crews and settling new producers
A show crew has hours to become a team, and a new producer has a few shows to learn the artists, venues and agents. A clear onboarding routine serves both.
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Crews arrive at the venue in the afternoon. Some have worked for you before and some have not. If the briefing is a hurried speech at the gate, new people leave without knowing what to do about an unwell guest or where the artist's car enters. New producers often learn the same way, by being on the phone with agents during a show.
Two short routines help. For crews, a standard briefing and a buddy for the first show. For producers and executives, a plan for the first season: shadow a full show, run a smaller one with a senior present, learn the agents and venue contacts, and review at the end. Both are written, not left to goodwill.
How to set it up
1. Create a standard crew briefing
Timeline, zones, who leads each, emergency steps, dress and conduct. Print it on one page.
2. Pair newcomers with returning crew
A buddy stays with each new person through the first night and answers small questions.
3. Plan a producer's first season
Shadow, then assist, then run a small show. Fix review points after the first and the third show.
4. Introduce key outside contacts
Venue managers, agents, local authorities' liaison persons and transport vendors, with the new person present at the first meeting.
5. Collect feedback in a week
Ask crew what was unclear and ask the new producer what they would explain differently. See onboarding.
Check these first
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These take an afternoon and use your own records.
- Ask a first-time crew member what they were told before the doors opened.
- Check whether new producers have a written first season plan.
- See how many returning crew act as buddies.
- Count questions repeated at each show that the briefing did not answer.
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Questions owners ask
Twenty minutes is usually enough if the one page guide is clear. Longer briefings lose people, while shorter ones skip safety and conduct. Repeat the key points at the zone huddle.
No. Only the liaison and hospitality staff need to. Others should know the rules for backstage access and whom to call when someone asks to enter.
A smaller, lower risk show with a senior producer present. Move to larger shows when they have handled artist calls, vendor issues and a difficult night calmly.