Travel and Hospitality Management: May 2010

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything

Author: Travel & Hospitality Managment | Posted at: 4:38 PM | Filed Under: Managment, Marketing, Sales, Seth Godin, Training

The great Seth Godin wrote this simple post that summarizes every thing in 5 points.
The number of people you need to ask for permission keeps going down:
1. Go, make something happen.
2. Do work you're proud of.
3. Treat people with respect.
4. Make big promises and keep them.
5. Ship it out the door.
When in doubt, see #1.

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Be Different!

Author: Travel & Hospitality Managment | Posted at: 3:44 PM | Filed Under: Advertisements, Managment, Marketing, View, Work Diary

It is amazing when you visit a site and you tell yourself “ man, I seen this site before”.

the truth is that you did not seen this site, but you seen another one that looks almost the same. That tell you one thing, the people who created these sites did not thing out of the box. The built the sites so they could put it on the business cards!

Keep in mind this point; your company site must be different than other sites. Your visitors must feel that you have spent more time in your site to make it special.

It is not just a site.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Speaking from a Podium

Author: Travel & Hospitality Managment | Posted at: 9:03 AM | Filed Under: communication, Harvard Business Review, Hotel Executives, Human Resources, Training, View, Work Diary

MAY 25, 2010

4 Tips for Speaking from a Podium

The podium can be an intimidating place. Even seasoned public speakers feel anxious when standing in front of a microphone. Here are four tips for making your next speech from the podium hum with confidence:

Keep your feet planted and stand up straight. This will convey poise and strength, even if that's not what you're feeling.
Don't memorize. Unless the speech is very short, the anxiety of trying to remember your lines will only make your task harder.
Find a place for your hands. Put your hands in one place — for example, on the sides of the podium — and then forget about them. You will bring them up naturally to gesture as long as they have a place to return to.
Practice, practice, practice. Rehearse as many times as you can, in an environment as close to the real experience as possible.

Today's Management Tip was adapted from "Speaking from a Podium: Simple Tips to Get Started" by Daniel Kennedy.