Leadership In Hospitality Industry

Leadership  Introduction As a director who mentors and guides his managers, it is common to encounter challenging situations with these employees. However, a particular experience with a senior employee 4 years ago surprised me and gave me a professional alert. The employee in question had made significant progress in his career, and I admired his dedication and enthusiasm for our company's vision. However, his behaviour suddenly turned when he was held accountable for his department's performance. This short article explores the experience, the lessons learned, and the importance of stable behaviour in professional relationships. The Experience The senior employee had been making remarkable progress in his career path within the organization, and I often guided and mentored him along the way. However, during one of the most demanding periods at work, I had to be assertive and hold him accountable for the specific unstable performances of his department that occurred multiple t...

Do you provide the right environment to awaken your team's creative intelligence? We leaders have to embrace our employees’ new ideas and initiatives and guide them throughout implementation. However, the right environment is the most essential component to awaken and challenge the creativity of our people. <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5477253968443429" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> Creating the right environment at work is exactly like the “space” that a painter or a photographer needs in his studio to be inspired and create. If you take away this space, creativity will be less empowered. In the hospitality sector, by not creating the right environment at work our employees will be less motivated to influence others by establishing a trend of routine.Providing the right space is to recognise the employee’s ability to create and to invent ideas that he or she can tr...

My father taught me to use my camera to convey my feelings and pride. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” a captivating truth, although I believe a picture worth a thousand feelings. All of these are tailored in a unique pattern to match the viewer’s point of view. It is as though you can feel it catching on to your unconscious, speaking that you with a visual language that cannot be spoken, but rather imprints itself on your photographic memory. I have been passionate about photography from a very young age. My father, my first inspiration, always shared his vision with me whenever we looked through our photographic lens. This is how we inspired ourselves, and looked to motivate others. When I was a child I studied my father, as he was shooting with his old Pentax camera, asking us kids to run, to play, and to make nice smiley faces for his shots. He would use different lenses and filters to create effects, and special themed pictures. I remember thousands of pictures that...