GuideOperations

Shift handover: keep course plans and open tasks clear

Agree where course times, groups and open tasks are recorded.

The morning shift moves a lesson. Reception knows, but the instructor still sees the old time. The problem is the handover: a shared plan is useful only when changes reliably reach it.

Agree where staff find the current course plan

Decide where the team checks booking status, the daily plan, equipment condition and payment questions. In TIDEFORCE, bookings, the Whiteboard and the relevant records connect these tasks. A message draws attention to a change; the current time belongs in the plan.

Keep the agreement short: whoever changes a time updates its record and informs the people affected. A reader should be able to distinguish confirmed information from an open question.

Give each open task a person responsible

“Participant details missing” is not enough for a handover. Add who will ask, when the information is needed and where the answer belongs. Apply the same rule to an equipment exchange or an unresolved balance.

Test access with the roles the team actually uses. An instructor needs lesson context; financial questions go to the responsible office staff. Agree who covers an absence.

Hand one changed booking to the next shift

Have one person change a booking and a second explain what should happen tomorrow. They should find the time, group, instructor and equipment in the records. Each extra question reveals a missing part of the agreement.

Then use the daily planning routine. The weekly review helps identify recurring handover problems.

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