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Benefits of Outsourcing Staff Services and Platforms in the Hotel Industry

Strategy Driven

Hotel business owners must find the best candidates for the various roles in a hotel. The trends in the hotel sector are evolving. A hotel strategy should be synced with modern-day needs, ranging from the increase in costs to customer demand and expectations. Efficient management of processes.

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How Your Employee Recognition Program Can Destroy Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

I had just arrived at a fancy hotel for a friend’s wedding. Right beside the dumpsters were several tables set with china, white tablecloths, and balloons for a hotel staff recognition luncheon. One manager I know instructed team leaders to say, “Thank you for coming to work today,” as a way of reducing absenteeism.

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What Is Yield Management and Why Is it So Important?

Strategy Driven

Plane tickets, train tickets, hotel rooms, etc., To remedy this situation in the hospitality industry, a new pricing strategy was developed; the Yield Management strategy. What is yield management? What is yield management and how does it affect your business? So, really, what is yield management ?

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. Simons’ team defines behavioral integrity as “managers keeping their promises and demonstrating espoused values.” which translated into $250K for each hotel!

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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

at some of their past strategy choices and follow the yellow brick road. The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. HP announced Whitman’s appointment on September 22, 2011 but given the public comments, customers seem to think it’s a bad choice. So let’s look.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

For much of the last century, the most prominent strategies of large corporations were vertical integration and diversification, pursued within their traditional boundaries, or inward bound. Now organizations employ strategies to take them outward bound utilizing any of six different arrangements. How this has changed.

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What’s Your Leadership AQ?

Lead Change Blog

AQ is defined as “the ability to adjust course, product, service, and strategy in response to unanticipated changes in the market”— and indeed, the Harvard Business Review characterised it as “the new competitive advantage.” How do leaders with a high AQ stay ahead of the game?