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How to Improve Your Workplace With Core Values & Rules of the Game

The most effective way to improve your restaurant's results is by building a better, stronger culture. In a positive culture, employees do their best, work together as a team and take great care of their guests. In this course you'll learn the foundational elements of building a confident, cohesive team and a positive and high-performance workplace.

How to Improve Your Workplace With Core Values & Rules of the Game

About This Course

Category:

Leadership

Recommended For:

Owners and Managers

Learning Time:

74 minutes 48 seconds

What You Will Learn

We believe the quality and consistency of the guest experience is the driving force in the success of every restaurant. We also believe that it takes happy, engaged employees to create dining experiences that produce loyal, returning guests.

Over the last several years, we’ve sought out opportunities to learn the foundational principles and practices of some of the most successful restaurant organizations in the U.S. What we discovered is that one common thread in all of these companies is the belief that their employees, not customers, are their most important asset and the most effective way to ensure a superior guest experience is to provide a positive, supportive culture in their restaurants.

Why is a culture so important in a restaurant? Because it takes a team of happy, engaged people to make exceptional guest experiences happen again and again. And genuine employee engagement will only happen in a positive, supportive culture.

Culture drives the employee experience, employees drive the guest experience and the guest experience drives sales and profit.

Improving your financial results begins with improving your culture and that takes leadership. In this course you’ll learn how any owner and manager can dramatically enhance their leadership abilities to create a better, more positive and productive culture within their restaurant.

  • How to become more of a leader and less of a manager
  • How to make your core values the foundation of your culture
  • Specific, proven steps to begin the process of implementing a new culture
  • How to set clear expectations and hold your people accountable
  • How to create a workplace where your people are friendly, supportive and willingly work together as a team
  • How to build a team of highly engaged employees through trust, respect and a positive work experience

Instructor: Jim Laube


Jim Laube

Founding RestaurantOwner.com in 1998, Jim is a seasoned expert in the restaurant industry. With a diverse background spanning from frontline roles to CFO roles, he brings unmatched expertise as a former advisor and CPA to independent restaurants. Having trained thousands of professionals on restaurant accounting and controls, Jim remains dedicated to developing valuable resources and training programs for independent restaurant success.

Section 1
Overview
Overview
  • 1.
    Introduction
    1:42
  • 2.
    Why Restaurants Succeed or Struggle
    4:19
  • 3.
    What is Culture?
    6:03
  • 4.
    Why Culture Matters
    6:50
  • 5.
    The Difference Between Management and Leadership
    7:54
  • 6.
    Overview Quiz
    1:00
Section 2
What Determines Culture
What Determines Culture
  • 7.
    Key Drivers of the Employee Experience
    4:58
  • 8.
    A Great Culture Begins with a Healthy Workplace
    5:56
  • 9.
    A Foundation of Safe, Civil and Supportive – Part 1
    5:42
  • 10.
    A Foundation of Safe, Civil and Supportive – Part 2
    4:11
  • 11.
    What Determines Culture Quiz
    1:00
Section 3
Core Values & Rules of the Game
Core Values & Rules of the Game
  • 12.
    How to Create Your Core Values
    5:39
  • 13.
    Do You Need a Separate Rules of the Game?
    2:30
  • 14.
    Core Values & Rules of the Game Quiz
    1:00
Section 4
Implementing Culture Change
Implementing Culture Change
  • 15.
    Introducing Your Core Values & Rules of the Game
    6:22
  • 16.
    Setting Clear Expectations
    5:15
  • 17.
    Implementing Culture Change Quiz
    1:00
Section 5
Conclusion
Conclusion
  • 18.
    Final Thoughts
    2:27
  • 19.
    Conclusion Quiz
    1:00

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