Symposium Logistics & Event Planning
This special event is where you present your business website and business plan to others.
What is the symposium?
Another word for professional manners and polite behavior during business events.
What is etiquette?
This industry includes places like hotels, restaurants, and event spaces focused on service.
What is hospitality?
Two items your business must have on the website: the company ______ and ______.
What are the company name and logo?
The essential question asks how businesses are both independent and ________.
What is interdependent?
This is a detailed plan for an event, including things like room set-up, supplies, schedules, and safety.
What are event logistics?
Using posture, eye contact, and facial expressions to communicate without speaking.
What is body language?
This word describes traveling for fun or experiences, like cultural or adventure trips.
What is tourism?
These statements explain what your business believes in and where it is going.
What are mission and vision?
“Independent” means a business can operate on its own, but it still needs these kinds of outside support to grow (name one).
What are customers, suppliers, workers, investors, or partners?
This document records what happened in a meeting—topics, main ideas, and what people must do next.
What are meeting minutes?
A practice interview activity that students complete to prepare for professional questions and answers.
What is a mock interview?
A job that plans events and coordinates schedules, spaces, and supplies.
What is an event planner?
This marketing item explains who you sell to and where your business fits compared to others.
What are target market and market placement?
A business depends on other businesses for materials and services. This shows businesses are ________.
What is interdependent?
A practice run before the big event to test timing, speaking, and set-up.
What is a dress rehearsal?
Talking to new people in a professional way to build connections at an event.
What is networking?
A key skill in hospitality that also matters during the symposium: treating guests politely and helping them feel welcome.
What is customer service?
This checklist item is a short plan for how you will reach customers and promote your business.
What is a marketing plan?
In the rubric, this category checks whether the student clearly shows learning about business development, marketing, etiquette, and protocol.
What is understanding of course content?
These are tasks written in meeting minutes that include what must be done, who will do it, and by when.
What are action items?
This skill means clearly answering questions about your business during the symposium after your presentation.
What is handling Q&A (questions and answers)?
This is how hospitality connects to entrepreneurship: you create a product/service AND plan how guests/customers experience it.
What is building a customer experience?
For symposium preparation, students need a practiced speech AND practiced preparation for this part where the audience asks questions.
What is Q&A from symposium attendees?
The course ends with students writing about what they learned, what was challenging, and suggestions. This section is called the course ________.
What is the course evaluation?