Thursday, September 8, 2011
first day at LOC 9/8/11
Today was our first class at the Lyndon Outing Club. We all arrived at LOC at aproximately 8 oclock a.m and began working on different activities. For our first activity, we were put into groups and were all given different scenerios. My groups scenerio was a bachleor party from philidelphia and they were going to Jay Peak for 4 days. Using every department in the ski resort indusrty we had to create a story showing how many departments people actually make contact at when they are at a resort. For our group this was a very fun and easy activity. Then after that scenerio Sean threw us a curveball. Ours was the same scenerio except 2 of the guys in the bachleor party were very intoxicated and we did not want to call the cops but we did not want anyone to get hurt though. So our solution was to offer them other activities to do until the sobered up. This activity was a little harder but still fun. The last thing activity we did was all the groups had to choose if they wanted to be the marketing group, sustainibility group, trail maintenece, or event coordinators to possibly help the outing club come up with some new ideas. Our group picked marketing and got right down to brainstorming new ideas on how to re-market the outing club. We got together with the event coordinators and came up with maybe a fall festival at LOC. Then our marketing group continued to brain storm and came up with new ideas to market the place. Things such as advertising on lsc campus, at businesses in Lyndon, on facebook, on the radio, the critic, and maybe even a rebranding of LOC. Then we assigned everyone in the group a specific role for our advertising. Overall it was a very productive day. Everyone had great ideas and worked well together. Can't wait to go back on Tuesday to continue the great conversation!! :)
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I liked your idea when there were 2 really intoxicated people. Instead of making them angry, they were given a safer alternative and I'm sure they were happy watching movies in the safety of their hotel room rather than possibly ending up in a hospital! This shows that you gotta be able to think on your feet and make quick decisions to benefit the guests.
ReplyDeleteEvery group had a tricky scenario. I was not expecting to be given a scenario about the wife and husband separating. Then the husband crashes and becomes unconscious. After talking about the scenario, I realized how many departments of the ski industry were actually responsible for responding to the situation. Kind of interesting activity, but it tied everything together. Even with others scenario's it was interesting to see how many departments were involved. This just goes to show you how big a ski resort can be and how much work is actually involved in a typical work day.
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