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What I observed:

Guests unserved:

  • For periods long enough that they fidgeted and grumbled to one another

Staff unfocused:

  • Waiting for an available register
  • Going to the “back room” to retrieve items (leaving other patrons hanging)
  • Hurrying to finish an activity and move on
  • Rushing – sometimes harried (are they on commission?) (probably)

…and I didn’t hear any up-sell or cross-sell attempts…

Results from building an Engaged Team environment for the staff who provide the tasting and gift shop experience? Increased:

  • Retail sales
  • Wine Club enrollment
  • Customer satisfaction/Promoters
  • “Come-back” visits
  • Employee satisfaction

Typical solution domains:

Physical layout

  • Flow of guests
  • Flow of servers’ work

Infrastructure

  • Technology
  • Registers

Processes

  • Re-designed or streamlined
  • Standardized

Team Performance

  • Measurement and incentives
  • Org structure
  • Schedule
  • Training

Ask for a Process and Performance Maturity Assessment

A brief observation and measurement activity delivering a summary report:

  • “What opportunities exist? How big are they?”
  • “How do we compare to similar situations?”
  • “What could our processes and organization look like?”

   And the big one:

  • “Where do we start?”