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7 Key Steps for Better Training and Development Programs
Training new and existing employees can be a company’s biggest challenge, especially in a rapidly changing business environment. While some companies treat training and development as a strategic priority, others face ongoing hurdles in securing leadership buy-in and allocating sufficient resources. Here are seven key steps to help bridge that gap and drive meaningful outcomes. 1.
Less Is More - GGB Magazine
GGB is committed to providing updated news and analysis on our weekly news site, GGBNews.com. How to solve the staffing conundrum Tribal casinos were always looked upon as the preferred employers in their communities. In many cases, they were the largest employers. Even in communities with a diverse job market, they often operated in a more stable business environment.
Don’t Leave it to Chance
The importance of building an effective workplace culture Every company talks about the importance of its workplace culture, but few approach it as a strategic initiative. Because of the impact culture has on a company’s performance, it should not be left to chance. It can and should be crafted and nurtured in ways that reflect a company’s needs, hopes, aspirations and goals.
Employee Engagement May Be a Cure for The Great Resignation
Everybody's talking about the Great Resignation and its impact on overall hospitality service and business performance. This is a unique problem, one that most of us have never seen or experienced before. Who would have thought we would be forced to deal with a pandemic and the issues it presented. The way Covid-19 was sprung on us and how most company's reacted pretty much stripped away the sense of security that companies worked so hard to establish with their employees.
HOTEL BUSINESS REVIEW
Coming up in April 2023... Guest Service: Exceeding Expectations When guests check into a hotel, they have expectations of quality customer service. They expect to have their needs met in a professional manner, they desire a certain level of comfort, and possibly even made to feel a little special. This is important because satisfied guests are more likely to return and to become true brand ambassadors.
The Mirage: The Casino That Changed Everything
By Andrew Klebanow and Arte Nathan Thu, Jan 21, 2021 This spectacular casino property has laid the groundwork for today's integrated resort The integrated casino resorts that can be found in Las Vegas, most other U.S. jurisdictions, Singapore and in Macau are each unique in design, theme and mix of amenities. Yet each has a lineage to one property: the Mirage Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Thirty-one years ago, the Mirage ushered in the era of the integrated casino resort.
10 Things Every HR Professional Needs to Do to Succeed
“I’m a people person” and “I like helping others” are two common reasons HR professionals give for choosing their career path. While they’re good enough reasons to get started, they aren’t nearly good enough to be great. After more than 30 years in HR, I have some thoughts about what it takes to be effective in this profession. Here then, in the tradition of David Letterman, are the top 10 things I think every HR professional needs to do to succeed (in reverse order, of course). 10. Have a vision.
8 Critical Steps to Effective Recruiting
In my 25 years as chief human resources officer at Wynn Resorts, we received more than 3.5 million job applications and hired 125,000 new employees. We were very successful, but none of that came easy. It required hard work, creativity, perseverance, teamwork and focus, all while trying to get the work done and jobs filled. In an effort to summarize what worked best, here are eight critical steps to help you recruit more effectively. Know what you’re looking for.
Always Do What's Right
You’re expected to do things right: both the big and the little. I was in a hotel last week and used the complimentary bath robes they often leave in the closet: there were two - on one the attendant took the time to put the belt through the loops appropriately, on the other they didn’t.
Find What Fired Your Passions
“The two most important days in your life are the day that you’re born and the day you find out why.” Mark Twain I loved growing up in the 50s and 60s: nurtured by a loving and supportive family, a great neighborhood to play in, and long days filled with music and friends. I used to stay up nights in bed and listen to a transistor radio – the kind you had to clip on metal to get it to work: the words in those songs opened me up to the world beyond.
Look for Those Who Have the "Will" and the "Want"
Las Vegas became the center of the culinary universe when celebrity chefs started partnering in restaurants here: that’s when applicants really started seeing opportunities in kitchen careers.
Learn to Navigate Life's Challenges
Life is full of challenges: some of the hardest are those faced by recently released felons. Jon Ponder, the founder and CEO of Hope for Prisoners (the Las Vegas-based non-profit that trains and helps place individuals recently released from the judicial system) understands the key to a re-entering individual’s success is their commitment to this change.
Give Back to Others Today
I’ve been a lifelong member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM): it has more than 285,000 members, many of whom have become friends. One of the Society’s key themes is the notion of giving back to the profession: in this I’ve been inspired by many great HR practitioners.
Words of Wisdom: Discovering a Different Diversity
Coming of age in the 1960s shaped my perspective. I lived through some of the defining events of the 20th century: the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement, the Beatles, Vietnam, Richard Nixon, the anti-war movement, Watergate, and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. Against this backdrop, I graduated from Cornell University with a degree in industrial and labor relations and entered the world of HR. I’ve witnessed a great deal of change since then.
Words of Wisdom: Discovering a Different Diversity
Coming of age in the 1960s shaped my perspective. I lived through some of the defining events of the 20th century: the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement, the Beatles, Vietnam, Richard Nixon, the anti-war movement, Watergate, and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. Against this backdrop, I graduated from Cornell University with a degree in industrial and labor relations and entered the world of HR. I’ve witnessed a great deal of change since then.
10 Things Every HR Professional Needs to Do to Succeed
“I’m a people person” and “I like helping others” are two common reasons HR professionals give for choosing their career path. While they’re good enough reasons to get started, they aren’t nearly good enough to be great. After more than 30 years in HR, I have some thoughts about what it takes to be effective in this profession. Here then, in the tradition of David Letterman, are the top 10 things I think every HR professional needs to do to succeed (in reverse order, of course).
7 Key Steps for Better Training and Development Programs
Training new and existing employees can be a company's biggest challenge, especially in a rapidly changing business environment. When I was chief human resources officer at Mirage and Wynn resorts in Las Vegas, training and developing our teams could not have been more important. But that's not the case at many companies, where the struggle to convince leadership to invest in training and development is ongoing.
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