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Organisation of the module International Virtual Business Week
It is essential that all of you, individually and as a team member, join in all online events as scheduled. Keep in mind that you will be performing as entrepreneurial managers in the upcoming sessions and throughout the week duration of this game. So, next to working on your assignments, you ought to keep your social media and interaction alive. What to do first? Take it step by step.
To be done in week 8, before the Virtual Business Week starts
To give you a head-start, especially as we will not physically meet, we want you to do the following:
- Step 1: Study Introduction to Hotel
Study the Introduction to Hotel: here you will find the ten pages you need to read on the hotel, the history and the situation as you will take over the management of the property.
- Step 2: Study Introduction Game play
Study the Introduction Game play: here you will find the ten pages you need to read on what you can do as new management team.
- Step 3: Meet (online) with your team members
It could be a bit of an extra challenge to cooperate online, due to the Corona measures, but still, be a team player and aim not to leave anyone behind. We know MS Teams can work miracles, you can also use other back-channels like WhatsApp, Signal, Slack, Google hangouts or Facebook live. Managing a hotel is having your team and hotel well organized. Make sure you meet asap and work together in a professional manner, and do support everybody in the team to perform his/her tasks well and in time. Good management is also good team-management. If things don’t work out as planned, act immediately. In the year 0 you will make a management Team contract. Now, be sure to get acquainted: the list with your Team members will be provided (in MS teams and otherwise).
Virtual Business week, Monday 1st. March
- Step 4: Kick-off
Join in and participate in the main online kick-off along with other management teams: you will get instructions from the owner Christina Bergman or CEO Jill Jandal.
You will then receive information regarding your Team and the Game, such as:
- - The team members with whom you will make up the management team of the hotel: the list has been made available via Teams, so you should familiarize yourself with your own Teams channel
- - The team number of your hotel. This will look something such as "36BE-A01".
- - Your Game is the 36nd Game in row and takes place in Leuven, Belgium, so that is why its is number 36BE.
- - Your hotel. For instance, if your hotel is located in the fictitious city of Amstelburg, therefore the letter A will correspond to your hotel. The letter B stands for the city of Budano, the third city being Copenstadt: C; D stands for Dreskovski, E for Efemada. All cities are located in Belgium (or any European country and city).
- - Your hotel in this case will be hotel number 01 out of approximately ten hotels in your city. The other nine are your competitors.
- Step 5: City meeting.
Check the time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams. It might be shortly after the kick-off. If you have time, check the other tasks of this week. In this session you meet your coach, your competitors, ask questions, have a look at the assignments of this week etc. Very bad idea to miss out on this. In this session you will get your (private) link to your Team File and will know which channel in this MS Teams 'belongs' to your management team. So you can 'go' to your own channel afterwards, and make arrangements within your team.
Team File
As a team you will work in a shared Team File, a Google spreadsheet. Shortly, you will get a private link to this file.
With this link, you will have access to your hotel’s Team file: the most important file in the game. This is the document in which you need to present your assignments, formulate your future plans for your hotel, and where you will also find your results under each year. The private link will look something like 'https://goo.gl/L4cABC' and is case sensitive. Demo Team File of a finished Game, each competition is a bit different, but it will give you an idea.
Keep your link private and secret! Inside this Team File (for your eyes only), you will work on:
- - Your assignments
And you will find per year:
- - The revenues of your hotel
- - The profit of your hotel
- - The ranking of your hotel on the assigned entrepreneurship activities
- - Your ranking of your hotel on the assigned creativity activities.
- - Feedback from your coach
Your coach will have access to your Team File at all times. A few things to bear in mind while working collectively in this Team File:
- - Please use Chrome as your browser (will work the best, both owned by Google).
- - When you are logged in in Google (YouTube, Gmail): you will get a few more options in your menu ribbon
- - It is real-time, with a small delay. And be aware that: The last edit counts: so make sure to agree with, which team member will do the final editing (mind the deadlines).
- - Work online only: downloading, converting to Excel etc. will always give issues.
- - You all have edits right, at the same time, in the same team file
- - You have edit rights in a selected number of cells, only the yellow ones: follow the instructions, do not change tabs, don't make new tabs etc.
- - Many cells have a small triangle on the top right hand: hover your mouse over it, as this will give additional information on the subject.
- - You are not allowed to change things after the deadline, or in any previous year.
- - It can be handy to install the extension "Editor for Docs, Sheets & Slides", available via this link. The extension is needed for copying / pasting information between Google files.
- - It can get busy online, on the Google servers, on your WiFi e.g. So loading might take a few seconds, if the file doesn't seem to load, exit and open it again or do refresh (once!). For reassurance: we hardly had any problems on the 'Google side'.
More information
After this, during the game you can find much more info in:
- - In the main menu you can see your Game 36BE, with its own homepage and information. Don't bother about other Games.
- - Always in the menu you can find the Hotel Info pages. They give detailed information on the real hotel.
- - Clicking Game play info will show you information on how to handle your hotel in this simulation. This is also always available in the menu and on the Game play.
- - Clicking Help will show more information on photos and videos of the hotel and links to the social media accounts of Emerald Forest Hotel
- - Clicking Social media EmeraldForestHotel will show the dominant currents social media accounts the hotel has.
- Step 6: Join the Facebook and WhatsApp group
Go to Facebook group of 36BE and request to join the group. You can join with a FB hotel page or a personal account (one per team will do). This is a private group and will not influence your timeline.
As a service there is a special 'helpline: we suggest you to use this. Please choose one mobile number representing your Team in the Game: fill this number out in your Team File (it is part of the assignment of year 0). Please send an app from this mobile to Game Support 36BE +31 6-xxx with just your Team number: so 36BE-A01 or 36BE-C10 e.g. Nothing else. You will be added to the group then. You'll get instruction in the app how to use e.g.
- Step 7: Make your year 0 business assignment
Check the page 36BE Your Strategy.
Use info on what to do from the page Year 0 where the strategic preparation is explained, and check the page Team file on this platform to see what your Team File is and does. Then have a look at your own Team File. All team members can log in using the provided link: multiple users at the same time is no problem. Your team will work in this file and also find results in there after each year. After reading, discuss your strategic plans with regard to the hotel and come to a conclusion.
- Step 8: Make your year 0 creativity assignment
Check the page 36BE Your Communication.
Deadline Monday, March 1st. at 15.00, round 'Year 0'
Virtual Business Week, Tuesday 2nd. March
- Step 9: City meeting: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
Results of the year 0, looking ahead at year 1.
- Step 10: Supporting course: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
This is a supporting course, that will help you to run your hotel in a better way.
- Step 11: Consultancy: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
This is the time to ask questions about all the tasks.
- Step 12: Make your year 1 business assignment
Check the page 36BE 10 Decisions.
- Step 13: Make your year 1 creativity assignment
Check the page 36BE Business Assignment 1 Investment Plan.
Deadline Tuesday, March 2nd. at 15.00, round 'Year 1'
Virtual Business Week, Wednesday 3rd. March
- Step 14: City meeting: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
Results of the year 1, looking ahead at year 2.
- Step 15: Supporting course: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
This is a supporting course, that will help you to run your hotel in a better way.
- Step 16: Consultancy: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
This is the time to ask questions about all the tasks.
- Step 17: Make your year 2 business assignment
Check the page 36BE 10 Decisions.
- Step 18: Make your year 2 creativity assignment
Check the page 36BE Business Assignment 2 Corona Plan.
Deadline Wednesday, March 3rd. at 15.00, round 'Year 2'
Virtual Business Week, Thursday 4th. March
- Step 19: City meeting: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
Results of the year 2, looking ahead at year 3.
- Step 20: Supporting course: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
This is a supporting course, that will help you to run your hotel in a better way.
- Step 21: Consultancy: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
This is the time to ask questions about all the tasks.
- Step 22: Make your year 3 business assignment
Check the page 36BE 10 Decisions.
- Step 23: Make your year 3 creativity assignment
Check the page 36BE Business Assignment 3 Social Media.
Deadline Thursday, March 4th. at 15.00, round 'Year 3'
Virtual Business Week, Friday 5th. March
- Step 24: City meeting: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
Results of the year 3, looking ahead at year 4.
- Step 25: Supporting course: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
This is a supporting course, that will help you to run your hotel in a better way.
- Step 26: Make your year 4 business assignment
Check the page 36BE 10 Decisions.
- Step 27: Make your year 4 creativity assignment
Check the page 36BE Business Assignment 4 Pitch.
Deadline Friday, March 5th. at 13.00, round 'Year 4'
- Step 28: The Final: check time slot of your City in your schedule and visit MS Teams
This will be the final and results of the competitions will be given.
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