Explanations form
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What can you do?
In the game you have a number of possibilities to influence your hotel.
- This platform on which you have a teampage: on this teampage you present your strategy and for instance the links to your social media. Anyone can read all on this platform. Only after loging-in you can edit your own teampage.
- The secure section: only accessible with your private link, any hotel has its own code. In this secure section a hotel has its own teamsheet with:
- a decisions section
- the explanations form to explain your decisions
- the results section where your hotel finds its results after each year, after releasing this by the coach.
- The social media (which you link to your teampage)
- Other live actions of your team: sometimes required, like the Trade Fair but maybe also your own initiative.
Your hotels teamsheet in the secure section
Look at the screenshot below: this is what you will see in the secure section: your hotels private teamsheet.
This example is the teamsheet of team A01 Amstelburg 01 which still has no name. In this example we have filled out all of the years. Of course if you start you will only see year0, the history, filled out with decisions from the past. There is three major parts in the secure section
- the decisions tab
- the explanation link, decision 14: the explanations form
- the results tab
We know look at the explanations form.
Explanations in every year
All decisions in all years must be backed-up by explanations. In the secured section you will find the link to the explanations form at decision 14 on the tab decisions.
In this so called explanations form you explain very explicitly every year why you took the decisions your team took. You also fill out, as a back-up please do not forget, the decisions themselves as well. So the decisions are to be filled out in the teamsheet (tab decisions) AND in the explanations form. Make things smart, make calculations and refrain from general remarks like 'we think this is interesting'. 'A lower price bring more customers'. Be sure to calculate with the new price to prove that if the new, lower price works out, this will rise the occupancy rate and so the revenues. In the end this will bring more profit because.... and calculate this.
All your explanations will stay in this same document, which is a Google online text file. All your teammembers can work in the same file all of the years (even at the same moment). All you do is saved automatically all the time in this document there is no save button :-)
If a year has passed, leave that section with explanations in: do not change it anymore and jump to next year. All of the years the questions asked are the same. Please put in (hyper)links to sources and for instance social media. Put in pictures and photo's if they support your remarks (just be sure that they are not too much mb's!).
The explanations form is also private to your team, keep that in mind.
The explanations form will look somewhat like the picture underneath. Keep in mind that the form you get might look a bit different.
File:Decisions explanations form page01.jpg |
File:Decisions explanations form textfile02.jpg |
Your mark and occupancy
The explanations form is very important in every year because
- your occupancy (and profit) depend on your decisions but even more on your explanations in this form!
- your game mark you get every year depends on these explanations as well.
Your explanations show that you are really managing the hotel in a proper, well-thought over manner. Leaving this out just means filling out numbers and guessing and will for sure bring down your occupancy and result in a low mark.
