From The Playbook

"Field notes from 44 years on the stage."

A colleague asked this question in one of our forums recently and it has been haunting me ever since. So I must get this out. Is Restaurant marketing broken? – Yes What exactly is it that’s broken? The understanding of what works and what doesn’t work for businesss. Retail strategies do not work. Most of […]

“When guests are angry, validate their emotions by saying, ‘I can see/hear how angry this makes you.'” Wrong!

Bolting on the latest ‘teamwork’ thinking is just ridiculously ineffective and misses the actual psychology behind the dynamics of impacting either individual performance or true team development.

Not understanding the difference between strategy and tactics means you’ll probably get both wrong.

Unless everything that goes on and/or is talked about in your business does not have you asking “How does this impact the guest?” you can’t be
successful long term.

We believe that aligning employees’ values, goals and aspirations with those of the business is the best method for achieving the sustainable employee engagement required for both individual and business success.

There are eight formal coaching steps that the best leaders and the worst bosses do differently. To gauge where you stand on the coaching spectrum, evaluate how you do in each of these areas:

Despite business Coaching’s proven track record of success, some people resist using a coach themselves. Their resistance or skepticism is often rooted in misconceptions about what business coaching is all about. The most common myths I hear about coaching include: Coaching is for people who cant do it alone Coaching will make me appear inadequate […]

On the surface, Coaching is an intangible business process, and its value can be hard to quantify. However, the seasoned veteran and the open minded employee alike value the outcomes that a well-designed employee Coaching program yields. More than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies are already using Coaching isn’t it time your business joined them? […]

Dr Rae Baum shared this list on LinkedIn from “Training Culture vs. Learning Culture” by Stephen J. Gill and I thought it was a great start and added to it. How else are the differences defined?

This is a list (in no particular order) of our core beliefs for building great hospitality businesses. We predicate all of our operational philosophies and client outcomes on these beliefs.