OFFICE ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURES $$ HOMEWORK $11$

Overview

These situations are designed to help you develop one of the most important workplace skills identified by employers $$ Critical Thinking.

Developing these skills requires that a person:

$$ Thinking creatively by generating new ideas

$$ Make decisions by specifying goals and constraints, generating alternatives, considering risks, and evaluating alternatives

$$ Learn by using learning techniques to acquire and apply knowledge or skills

$$ Reason by discovering a rule or principle underlying relationship between objects and apply when solving a problem

Directions

Preparing an Itinerary

Noah Wilson, vice president of marketing at PDI, Inc., will make a business trip to the Midwestern Region during the week of September $11$th to $14$th$.$ He will visit the Midwestern Regional Sales Office of PDI in Regina and the regional office in Winnipeg. He will speak to the Sales Management Club at Red River College.

Prepare Mr$.$ Wilson$$s itinerary.

NOTES ON MR$.$ WILSON$$S TRIP TO MIDWESTERN REGION

Additional Notes:

Jonathan Reddin will pick up Mr$.$ Wilson at his hotel on Tuesday morning at $0830$ and drive him to the Midwestern Sales Office.

Complimentary limousine service is provided to and from the Regina Airport and downtown hotels.

Art Jacobs will drive Mr$.$ Wilson back to his hotel after his meetings at the Sales Office on Tuesday.

Mabel Wiggins will meet Mr$.$ Wilson at the Best Western Hotel at $1815$ and drive him to Red River College for the Sales Management Club banquet. She will also drive him back to his hotel after his talk to the Club.

Wilson will have to take a taxi from his hotel in Winnipeg to the airport to catch his flight to Toronto on Thursday.

A$.$C$.$ Matlock, vice$-$president in charge of manufacturing, Midwestern Region, will meet Mr$.$ Wilson at the Winnipeg airport and take him to the plant for his meeting with Raymond Jones, plant manager. He will drive Mr$.$ Wilson back to his hotel after the meeting.