Hosp 590 Midterm Exam 2021 With All Correct Answers(Real Exam)

Hosp 590 Midterm Exam 2021 Question 1. Question : (TCO A, B, C, D) A major beverage company hosts an annual client appreciation event in Las Vegas every October. The guest list of 100 represents the top purchasers of its products in the United States. Your contact at the company is new in her position and overwhelmed with the idea, and she has asked you to help focus her planning. Using SMART goals, a Needs Assessment and a timeline, how can you assist her in supporting her request and creating the initial starting point for your event planning? Student Answer: The SMART method stands for Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic and Time-related. So to get started planning this event lets narrow each of these five sections down. Specific, for this event the beverage company will be inviting their top 100 customers. This is a very concentrated group of individuals and the host wants to make sure that their apparition is shown to this targeted audience. Measurable, is where a needs assessment and timeline help better measure the progress and success of the event. Assignable helps break down what needs to be done to individuals who will be best for the task and complete it to the best of its ability. Realistic is put in place to make sure that the event is not going too much out of the scope in which it was intended. This can help planers narrow their views of an event to what can be tangible achieved. Time-related all events have a time and place in which they will be held. This is why it is so important to have time line and create a schedule based on this time related guideline. The needs assessment is where we take the Why, who where, when, what, and how/how much into consideration. Further questions that can be asked to help with a needs assessment that can better help prioritize the event is: what must be done? What should be done? What can be done? Is it doable? Is it affordable? Is it meaningful? And finally a timeline is important while planning an event since there are so many different moving parts that having set deadlines to have the caterers, decorations, guests lists, party favors, equipment rentals that not only need to be planned but also signed off by the client. This is why having a timeline with due dates for each of these tasks will help split up the duties and responsibilities of the event making it seem less daunting. Instructor Explanation: Part I: The planner can ask lots of questions at this stage, take notes, and through the use of the SMART goals tool and Needs Assessment tool can start to put pencil to paper and start to create a plan. At the early stages the client and planner will be brainstorming and starting to develop a timeline. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic and Time-related. Answers will vary but should include components that have these attributes. A Needs Assessment captures the client's thoughts into a starting plan