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# Summary
The Astroship's ability to effectively manage its calendar is a critical strategic skill, as it not only serves the company's need to organize its meetings and monitor its progress, but also facilitates the smooth running of our voyages. These voyages are an amalgamation of numerous events that require clear communication and organization, inclusive of both online and offline activities. Therefore, our capacity to efficiently manage our calendar is not merely for administrative purposes but is a strategic necessity. Our voyages, being hybrid in nature, necessitate the organization of Zoom events and the marketing of voyages, thus making us akin to an event organizer. Our aspiration, however, is to be more than just an event organizer. We strive to be a meta event organizer, meaning we aim to train others in our unique methodology of organizing events. We want our voyaging methodology to be duplicable not just within our domain, but across different ships, hence our calendar should be so well-organized and thought through that others would want to utilize it. To meet this challenge, we employ a team approach. The captain outlines the strategic importance of the calendar, the navigator researches the various calendaring platforms and gathers technical requirements, the engineer considers the feasibility of implementing these platforms, and the cook aids in building and training the team on the use of the selected platform. The responsibility of the external calendar could either rest with the navigator or the engineer, or be given to another role.
# Tidied Transcript
The calendar function of the Astroship is one of the most important strategic skills we need to master. This is not merely because of the typical need for an organization to organize its internal and external meetings, or to map out who is doing what and when. Nor is it simply to have a living document showing the trajectory of the voyaging season or the upcoming year. It is not just about the daily or weekly organization of our work cycle. The main reason we need to excel at calendaring, and why we view it as a strategic priority, is twofold. Firstly, we are in the business of running voyages, which are essentially events attended by many individuals. These voyages involve a host of activities, and we need to ensure that everyone is clear about what these activities are. We need to organize these activities and communicate relevant details, such as the opening day and the schedule of events. Secondly, these voyages are hybrid events, so we need to schedule online and offline events constantly. We need to excel at organizing these events and marketing the voyages and the events that occur within them, as well as the online events that occur remotely. You could say the Astroship is an event organizer, as voyages are simply a cluster of events. Therefore, we need to be extremely proficient with our calendar. Even more importantly, we are not just event organizers; we are meta-event organizers. We aim to train others to organize these events and want our voyaging methodology to be replicable. Each voyage at Astroship has its own calendar and its own way of managing it. However, we also want all the different ships to share the same voyaging methodology and the technical systems that support it. Our goal is to make our calendaring so well-organized that others will want to use it because it's superior to their current methods. Hence, we need to excel at calendaring not only for ourselves but also because we're an event organizer. In fact, we need to be such proficient event organizers that all the voyages across all the ships want to use our calendaring methodology. This makes it strategically important and it's crucial that we do it well and continually improve. So, how do we meet this challenge? We meet it by using our team-based methodology. The captain emphasizes the strategic importance of calendaring and helps structure and organize the teamwork. The navigator then researches the different calendaring platforms, gathers technical requirements from the captain and the engineer, and then writes a report on their findings. The engineer considers the implications of implementing each of the calendar options in their department and comes up with a roadmap for implementation. The cook then aids in the building and training of the team on how to use the calendar, the rules for using it, and how it fits into the rhythm of the week and meetings. They also help determine who is responsible for the calendar and calendaring. It could be anyone; the external calendar could be the navigator's responsibility, while the technical implementation could be the engineer's. Alternatively, another role like the magician could take on this responsibility. In conclusion, mastering the calendar function of the Astroship is vital to our operations and our broader strategic goals. It requires a team-based approach, with different roles contributing to its successful implementation and use.
# Keywords Astroship, strategic skills, calendar, voyages, event organizer, meta event organizer, methodology, team approach, captain, navigator, engineer, cook
# Graph
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