Ready When You Are: The Power of Online Training (Part Three)
using online instruction allows learning to more easily become a continuous process and not just a sporadic special event. And because onlin
Ready When You Are: The Power of Online Training (Part Two)
There is growing consensus within the hospitality industry that online training can and should be an integral part of your staff and managem
Ready When You Are: The Power of Online Training (Part One)
Online training has revolutionized the way information, skills, procedures, policies, and institutional culture are transmitted to club empl
Engaging with Adult Learners
As a manager, training is an inescapable part of your responsibilities, and unlike teaching wherein your audience is usually children chances are you will be working with adult learners. Engaging with adult learners has its own unique set of challenges. When you train adults, there is a greater need for mutual respect and for the learners to find the trainer credible with enough character authority to teach them something new. Once the trainer has established their skills an
Why Membership Dues, Initiation Fees, & Capital Fees are KEY to any Long-Term Capital Plan
Editor's Note: Today's blog post is brought to you by RCS Strategic Alliance Partners and founders of Club Board Professionals, David Duval and Joseph Abely. DON'T MISS their free RCSU webinar happening May 17th, "Long Term Capital Planning: The Roadmap to Financial Sustainability". REGISTER HERE. We'll see you there! We are strong proponents that private clubs should have a 5-10 year long-term capital plan. A long-term capital plan should reflect all future anticipated capit
Provisions: Let's Talk About The Importance of Pre-Shift Meetings
We often find ourselves talking a lot about timing when it comes to food and beverage service. Each player on the team from the host/hostess to the servers, cooks, and managers are responsible for keeping the dining room flowing and managing the timing of the table. However, the most important time in any food and beverage operation is the 15 minutes before each shift begins: the pre-shift meeting. Photo by Paul Sarlas Call it the warm-up, sound-check, or preflight run-throug
10 Training Tips To Deliver the Results You Want
This article originally appeared in BoardRoom Magazine in 2015 as "What is The Point...of Training?" What is the point of training? Does everyone on your team really understand the point of training and how best to make your training effective? We train for a variety of reasons, but they are all centered on producing change and to keep our service culture strong. We train to affect change in skills (how to do something), knowledge (critical thinking or decision making) or att
5 Qualities to Look For in Your Next Hire
Updated: 10/02/2018 People matter. At RCS, we believe they are your biggest asset. No one knows this more intimately than managers in the hospitality industry. Everything we do is about people: people providing an experience to other people. People serving people. Our industry wouldn’t exist without our members to sustain it, and that’s usually what most club management revolves around—how to attract, retain, and delight your members. What we're talking about today is the oth
4 Steps to Cultivate your Service Culture
Customer service means different things to everyone. Wikipedia defines customer service as "The provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.” Businessdictionary.com defines it as “All interactions between a customer and a product provider at the time of sale, and thereafter.” But what does this mean in the club business? My general rule of thumb is to first realize that very often our customers are also our owners, bringing an intriguing dynamic to c
