59club, el proveedor líder de
formación y principales analistas de servicios y ventas, ha lanzado my59
Mentor, una experiencia inteligente de aprendizaje virtual, que salvaguarda el
regreso triunfal de los clientes al golf.
La nueva plataforma virtual presenta
los aclamados programas de formación de 59club dirigidos a las ventas y el
servicio – desde estrategias de ventas y retención de membresías hasta
perfeccionar las consultas de ventas corporativas y mejorar la experiencia
general del cliente – en golf y hospitalidad.
Los lugares pueden aprovechar de
la experiencia virtual del mentor para aumentar su conocimiento existente,
educar al nuevo personal, mejorar las capacidades del personal de ayuda y
proporcionar vías de desarrollo personal para todos los aspirantes. También se
puede acceder a documentos técnicos, videografía y contenido complementario de
colaboradores tal como el famoso Gregg Patterson, disponible ahora las 24 / 7,
según la conveniencia del personal.
La plataforma también es una
manera perfecta para que los lugares almacenen y comuniquen todas las políticas
internas de la empresa y los manuales de formación directamente, y proporciona
la tecnología para crear cursos de formación virtuales, verificar los
resultados del aprendizaje y realizar un seguimiento de las aceptaciones de
responsabilidad en una sola plataforma virtual de fácil acceso y etiqueta
blanca.
Simon Wordsworth, director
ejecutivo del 59club, dijo: “Reconocimos la necesidad de que las organizaciones
tengan control sobre su experiencia de aprendizaje en línea, por lo que creamos
una plataforma que nuestros socios pueden administrar sin ningún conocimiento
de codificación. My59 Mentor se ha desarrollado pensando en la sencillez; su
diseño limpio e intuitivo hace que la plataforma sea una experiencia fácil de
usar para administradores y estudiantes en todos los dispositivos.
“Durante este momento difícil,
entendemos el reto de motivar al personal y la necesidad de mejorar el
desarrollo personal, por lo que la educación debe seguir siendo una prioridad.
Todo nuestro contenido educativo está esperando ser descubierto dentro de la
plataforma. ¿Qué mejor manera de involucrar al personal y generar impulso,
asegurándose de que estén en la cima de la ola y con muchas ganas de comenzar?”
“No existe ni un club de golf,
restaurante o lugar de hospitalidad que, a corto plazo, sigue funcionando como
de costumbre. Cada club o lugar enfrentará retos agudos y significativos
derivados de la pandemia de COVID-19, problemas que my59 Mentor puede aliviar”.
Las notificaciones automáticas se
vincularán directamente a las compras misteriosas y a los datos de rendimiento
de la encuesta, dirigiendo el personal a la lección relevante dentro de la
plataforma, ya que My59 Mentor actúa instintivamente para mejorar las
habilidades del personal y mejorar cualquier deficiencia.
Los lugares pueden crear sus
propios programas internos de educación digital y personalizar la apariencia de
la plataforma. Guardar manuales y archivos de soporte para comunicar el
conocimiento y la política de la empresa directamente al equipo, al mismo
tiempo que recopila todo el contenido digital y en papel en una biblioteca
multimedia. La plataforma proporciona también una manera eficaz para que los
gerentes se comuniquen con el personal sobre las normas y los procedimientos de
COVID-19, y el protocolo por fases a partir de entonces.
Dentro de my59 Mentor hay una
función de “Examen” integrada que evalúa el conocimiento antes y
después de hacer un curso para averiguar el progreso del aprendizaje. Al
finalizar un curso, el personal puede descargar un certificado para autenticar
sus estudios. Este proceso se prestará a
la organización y la comunicación de los nuevos procedimientos operativos de
COVID-19 de manera eficaz, demostrando que todos los miembros del personal han
leído y adquirido una comprensión clara de las nuevas políticas a medida que
entran en vigencia.
Paul Armitage, new COO of Open Golf Club and managing partner for 59club Western Europe & North Africa
Golf Business News Interview with Paul Armitage, a partner in 59club Europe West and North Africa, covering France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Morocco and Tunisia and recently appointed COO of Open Golf Club
GB Paul,
your new roles must involve you in a lot of travelling. How are you coping in
the COVID-19 crisis?
PA Well,
we can still travel around in France, which is most important for the new job
because we have got golf courses dotted around all over the country.
GBN How
many courses are in the group?
PA Owned
and operated there are 11 – one of them is in Belgium and ten are in France –
and then we run a ‘marketing network’ in addition. Golf courses have been
brought in under the banner of Open Golf Club and we actively promote them in
exhibitions and IGTM. There are about 40 at the moment, all over Europe.
GBN You
previously spent six years as Managing Director at Le Golf National, host of
The Ryder Cup Matches in 2018. You must look back on that period with enormous
pride and satisfaction because it all went so well.
PA Yes,
and that’s one of the reasons why it’s time to move on. When I was first
employed back in 2014 I was handed a lot of missions and all those boxes have
been ticked. I could have chosen to run all the day-to-day operations at the
Club but I’m the sort of person that needs a challenge. I like to be able
to change things. That doesn’t mean I need full autonomy so I can do what I
want – no – but I like to have an objective and to go through it from A-Z,
changing things on my way to succeed.
GBN Who
has been appointed as your successor?
PA When
I announced my resignation, which was in December last year, I wrote a letter
to my boss suggesting that he should give my deputy manager a chance. Philippe
Pilato has been at Le Golf National for 25 years, almost since the day it
opened.
He
was a golf pro and he looked after the Academy. I thought we’ve got ‘a hidden
gem’ here because we needed to implement customer service and a lot of tender
loving care to put into what we were going to serve out to customers in the
immediate future.
We
were going to raise the bar, raise the prices and bring in a new experience. To
get that to a successful end you need somebody who’s got a lot of empathy and
love.
I
said to Philippe look I think you are going to have to change jobs. He looked a
bit down, thinking oh I’m going to get the sack here and I said no, no, you’re
going to have to go home and think about this but I would like to identify a
director of customer service for Le Golf National. Why do I want one? Because
the Club needed someone who every day gets up and thinks about how they can
give a wow or a great experience to customers. There was nobody in particular
on the staff who was doing that.
He
came back a few days later and said yes, let’s do it.
So
that’s where he came from and he’s been a very, very, extremely good customer
service manager. Then last year I took him up to Director of Operations – golf
operations – and now he is GM!
GBN What
have been the benefits to Le Golf National from hosting The Ryder Cup? Is there
a payback for the huge investment of time, money and people?
PA There
has definitely been a pay-back especially in the case of Le Golf National.
First, the Ryder Cup obliged the French Golf Federation and Le Golf National to
change, to not consider itself as a local pay-and-play public golf course but
as a world class destination. I think we have created something there which is
unique as a model because it’s probably, even at 150 euros or 175 euros, the
cheapest round of Ryder Cup golf in the world. And it’s open. It’s not like
many major golf destinations where you have to be invited by a member or you
can’t get on. And the third thing is that we’ve got an extremely good standard
for those who come from those kind of places where they’ll not be too surprised
to come in and they’ll have customer service and a team, badged up and
welcoming, and bag-drops and buggies and everything you need at a
world-class major tournament destination.
So
I think that’s the major benefit. We have repositioned Le Golf National
completely keeping at the same time a local, regional and national customer
base happy.
GBN And
what about golf in France generally?
PA
I think that this year everybody is struggling to have a normal year. I think
COVID has knocked that on the head. There’s a lot of golf being played this
year but there’s not a lot of normal golf, if you know what I mean: people
travelling, playing in as many competitions as they have done in the past.
I
think that France is resisting well though – official golfer numbers are down
by around 3% this year.
The
Ryder Cup in France also delivered as far as the media is concerned. Although
we didn’t get live coverage on free to view terrestrial TV, we got a lot of
media coverage, much more than we would have got from a French Open, so golf
was definitely in the spotlight thanks to the event.
Now,
when you talk to anybody about golf in France, there is the demystifying
process which has been started so it looks and feels less elite. People in
France definitely identify themselves more easily with golf.
A
lot of people this September are coming into Open Golf Clubs for our ‘Golf
Discovery Days’. They started last weekend and participation and sales have
been quite good, in fact very, very encouraging for a COVID year when
everything is supposed to be doom and gloom.
GBN
And then golf is coming in the Paris Olympics in 2024?
PA
Yes. I actually think that the Olympics could do even more good for golf in
France.
We
will get public TV coverage because it’s public television which has the rights
to show the Olympics so there’s absolutely no reason why they should not put
golf on TV. It’s almost definite that France will have both boys and girls in
the Olympics. We probably won’t get a medal, but It won’t be like a Major
Championship, at least we’ll have participation. I mean this month in the US
Open there were four French players and I think that’s a record.
So
from a ticketing point of view there should be a younger public coming to the
Tournament because the ticket price will be very much accessible and it’s more
of a general public environment. So, I think that the Olympics could do even
more good for golf in France and is definitely great for French Golf 6 years
after the Ryder Cup.
GBN Right,
let’s talk about 59club because soon after you wrote your letter to your
colleagues at Le Golf National in December, you must have been making your
decision about getting involved with the 59club. We announced that in Golf
Business News back in February.
PA Yes,
indeed. I did everything the right order and there was absolutely no surprise
to anybody about 59club. It was all talked through with the Federation and the
staff and hopefully they will be using some of the 59club tools soon too. And
the same with Open Golf Club.
There
was absolutely no issue either with 59club because Open Golf Club will use the
tools and are interested in the success of 59club. My role at 59club is to set
up the business with Simon Wordsworth and our associate partner in France
called Sylvain Marcati who comes from customer service in another industry to
golf. I was determined to get this product on to the French market from 59club
which helped me hugely at Le Golf National from 2017 onwards to improve our
standards.
I
think we were capable of improving them ourselves but we weren’t capable of
benchmarking to know if we were doing enough and getting there quick enough and
moving things in the right direction and also the training aspect of 59club,
the tool is very powerful. I wanted the French market to benefit from the
wealth of products which only Le Golf National and another golf club called
Terre Blanche were using. Now we’ve got nearly 30 golf courses working on it
already.
If
golf in France wants to survive we have to stop, and this is important to say,
we have to stop playing just the price game. We have to stop just using price
as the way of satisfying the customer and getting new customers through the
doors.
We
have to use the service quality aspect to get results as well and get the
prices up because golf has an insatiable thirst for investment in machinery and
staffing. It costs a lot of money to run a golf course. So yes, if we all get
on the bandwagon of customer service and improving our standards then there’s
no way a customer can say, why did you put the price of the green fee up by a
pound or two?
And
that’s why I brought it in. So we’ve gone through quite a few weeks of
translating it. COVID came along and to be honest it’s put us back half a year
or a year on our business plans but I’m not bothered because it actually came
at a perfect time to get it just right. So we have spent ‘lockdown’ getting the
tools translated correctly into French and now German. They will be going into
other languages soon.
GBN
Yes, because you’re involved in other countries too, aren’t you? Not just
France?
PA Yes.
We have created a company which will look after all of Western Europe apart
from Spain and Portugal. We also have Morocco and Tunisia. We’ve got France,
Germany, Austria, Holland, and Benelux so we’ve got a lot on our plate. A lot
of it is taking shape right now and we are even looking at other European
markets as we speak.
GBN Your
objective to move away from concentrating on price, has that gone a long way?
PA
There were a lot of golf courses just communicating price and not service or
standards. Online prices were going, and in fact are still going, way too low
because if you start with a rack rate of £40 for a green fee and then you offer
50% off that price; or you are in a network and you’re offering 50% off
with a loyalty card then there’s not much left for the operator after
commissions and you’re paying VAT. There’s probably only £15 a round left for
you.
Out
of that you’ve got to cut the grass, you’ve got to pay the staff to smile and
you’ve got to get them in on a Sunday, which can be costly and difficult to
recruit in France, etc., etc.
We
should train up every single general manager in France, England, wherever about
yield management. There’s no shame in saying we don’t know how to do it. Why
would you sell a green fee on a Sunday morning for 15 euros? Well some people
are doing it because they think that it’s the right thing to do. They think
that if they don’t do it they won’t have a customer.
Well
that’s not yield management, that’s shooting yourself in the foot. So, yes, I’m
heavily into the business of helping managers to increase their customer
satisfaction and their customer service which automatically, according to the
lessons learned from Le Golf National, will turn into turnover.
People
will come back. Repeat play thanks to quality is a reality. Customer service
will do that once people have had a chance to compare. Word of mouth is still
your best advertisement!
So
all of that has gone through my thought process over the years. I have
moved away slightly from discounts without thought process. Which doesn’t mean
that I don’t do it at all, but I have really professionalised my attitude
towards yield management. I still do reductions, but I want to do them when I
have a good chance of increasing my revenues! Not lowering them!
GBN What
is the impact of COVID on golf in France?
PA
We’re pretty much back to what I would say is going to be normal as far as
golfing is concerned.
GBN
Normal or better than normal? There’s been a lot of talk about an increase in
rounds played during July and August.
PA Oh
yes, in terms of business July and August have been record months. They have
been record months on a few Open Golf courses.
GBN
Just a few moments left so can we talk about The Open Golf Club specifically?
That’s the most recent announcement we’ve had about your career to date. You
have been appointed as COO, I believe.
PA
Open Golf Club is highly respected company here in France. They have been under
the radar for quite a while. It’s a family business which today is still
family-owned. Laurent Boissonas has taken up the reins. He wants to try and
keep the spirit of a family company, but he definitely wants to modernise
process and operations.
We
have some wonderful facilities. They are premium places like Le Touquet with
the hotels and 45 beautiful holes and then 30 minutes up the road is Hardelot,
which is a European Tour qualifying stage venue – although not this year
because there won’t be any, thanks to COVID, but next year I guess. Hardelot
has 36 magnificent holes, very, very well-known to the Brits but not so
well-known to the French.
Then
we’ve got a van Hagge like Le Golf National at Seignosse, which is a
magnificent golf course just north of Biarritz. In the mountains behind Cannes
we have two golf courses and then around Marseille we have three and then in
Paris we have two.
So
we’ve got some wonderful sites. These golf courses are not desperate for
investment either because the family have always kept high capex levels on the
courses and they are pristine but we need to look at positioning the chain even
more in the higher end of the golf market, making sure people know who we are
and what we are about.
There’s
a definite objective to do more customer service, modernising our approach by
using modern tools such as online booking services. We also run all of the
restaurants and hotels and we have a strategy there with some out of the box
thinking.
So
we will be coming up with new concepts in 2021, bringing in new lifestyle
concepts.
The
9 hole concepts and the 6 hole concepts, they have a reason to be – there’s no
doubt about it – but it’s still a lot about having a day out with friends or
corporate friends. but you may need to do a couple of hours of work or an hour
of work and deal with your emails before you go for the beer after a day of
golf or after breakfast. We’re looking at that kind of aspect.
So
yes there is lots of work to be done at the golf courses we own and then the
other part of my job with Laurent is we’re going to kick off some new business
revenue flows and we’re also going to be looking at good opportunities to grow.
GBN
Within France or beyond?
PA I
think we would look beyond but not too far.
GBN
You are a very busy man, Paul.
PA I
just love it and my family know it. I just love to be thinking and creating. I
like to get into the office early and jot things down. It gives me a couple of
hours before everyone else comes in just to formalise ideas. It’s exciting
working on new concepts and when I’m happy at work I also perform better at home.
GBN
That’s great Paul, thank you very much. Is there anything else that you would
like to tell our readers?
PA Yes.
Stay safe during the COVID crisis but come over to France as soon as it’s over
and play some golf!
59club the leading sales & service analysts and training provider, have today released my59 Mentor, their intelligent virtual learning experience, safeguarding clients triumphant return to golf.
The new virtual platform features 59club’s acclaimed sales & service training programs – from membership sales and retention strategies, to perfecting corporate sales enquiries and advancing the overall guest experience – across golf & hospitality.
Venues can take advantage of the virtual mentor experience to expand their existing knowledge, educate new staff, upskill relief staff and providing personal development pathways for all aspiring individuals. Additional white papers, videography and supplementary contributor content from the likes of the infamous Gregg Patterson, are also accessible within the platform, available now 24/7 at staff member’s convenience.
The platform also acts as the perfect vehicle for venues to store and communicate all in-house company policies and training manuals direct with their team, also providing the technology to build online training courses, verify learning outcomes and track liability acceptances within one user-friendly, easily accessible and white-labelled virtual platform.
Simon Wordsworth 59club CEO said: “We recognised the need for organisations to have control over their online learning experience, so we built a platform that our partners can manage without any knowledge of coding. My59 Mentor has been developed with simplicity in mind; its clean, intuitive design makes the platform a user-friendly experience for admins and students across all devices.
“During this difficult time, we understand the challenge of motivating staff and the need to enhance personal development, and for this reason education has to remain a priority. Our entire educational content is waiting to be discovered within the platform, what better way to engage staff and build momentum, ensuring they are on top of their game and raring to go.
“There isn’t a single golf club, restaurant or hospitality venue on the planet that will, in the short term, continue to operate as usual. Each club or venue will have acute and significant challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic – problems my59 Mentor can alleviate.”
Intelligent push notifications will link directly to a venue’s mystery shopping and survey performance data, directing the member of staff to the relevant lesson within the platform, as My59 Mentor instinctively acts to upskill staff and address any shortcomings.
Venues can build their own in-house digital education programmes and customise the appearance of the platform. Host staff handbooks and support files to communicate knowledge & company policy direct to the team, while collating all existing digital and paper content into one media library. The platform also provides an efficient way for managers to communicate with their staff around their initial COVID-19 policies and procedures, and phased protocol thereafter.
Within my59 Mentor there is an integrated ‘Quiz’ function which tests knowledge both before and after courses to evaluate progress. Upon completion, individuals can download certificates to authenticate their achievement. This process will naturally lend itself to organise and communicate new COVID-19 operating procedures efficiently, demonstrating that all staff members throughout the operation have read and gained a clear understanding of any new policies as they come into force.
59club, el proveedor líder de
formación y principales analistas de servicios y ventas, ha lanzado my59
Mentor, una experiencia inteligente de aprendizaje virtual, que salvaguarda el
regreso triunfal de los clientes al golf.
La nueva plataforma virtual
presenta los aclamados programas de formación de 59club dirigidos a las ventas
y el servicio – desde estrategias de ventas y retención de membresías hasta
perfeccionar las consultas de ventas corporativas y mejorar la experiencia
general del cliente – en golf y hospitalidad.
Los lugares pueden aprovechar de
la experiencia virtual del mentor para aumentar su conocimiento existente, educar
al nuevo personal, mejorar las capacidades del personal de ayuda y proporcionar
vías de desarrollo personal para todos los aspirantes. También se puede acceder
a documentos técnicos, videografía y contenido complementario de colaboradores
tal como el famoso Gregg Patterson, disponible ahora las 24 / 7, según la
conveniencia del personal.
La plataforma también es una
manera perfecta para que los lugares almacenen y comuniquen todas las políticas
internas de la empresa y los manuales de formación directamente, y proporciona
la tecnología para crear cursos de formación virtuales, verificar los
resultados del aprendizaje y realizar un seguimiento de las aceptaciones de
responsabilidad en una sola plataforma virtual de fácil acceso y etiqueta
blanca.
Simon Wordsworth, director
ejecutivo del 59club, dijo: “Reconocimos la necesidad de que las organizaciones
tengan control sobre su experiencia de aprendizaje en línea, por lo que creamos
una plataforma que nuestros socios pueden administrar sin ningún conocimiento
de codificación. My59 Mentor se ha desarrollado pensando en la sencillez; su
diseño limpio e intuitivo hace que la plataforma sea una experiencia fácil de
usar para administradores y estudiantes en todos los dispositivos.
“Durante este momento difícil, entendemos
el reto de motivar al personal y la necesidad de mejorar el desarrollo
personal, por lo que la educación debe seguir siendo una prioridad. Todo
nuestro contenido educativo está esperando ser descubierto dentro de la
plataforma. ¿Qué mejor manera de involucrar al personal y generar impulso,
asegurándose de que estén en la cima de la ola y con muchas ganas de comenzar?”
“No existe ni un club de golf,
restaurante o lugar de hospitalidad que, a corto plazo, sigue funcionando como
de costumbre. Cada club o lugar enfrentará retos agudos y significativos
derivados de la pandemia de COVID-19, problemas que my59 Mentor puede aliviar”.
Las notificaciones automáticas se
vincularán directamente a las compras misteriosas y a los datos de rendimiento
de la encuesta, dirigiendo el personal a la lección relevante dentro de la
plataforma, ya que My59 Mentor actúa instintivamente para mejorar las
habilidades del personal y mejorar cualquier deficiencia.
Los lugares pueden crear sus
propios programas internos de educación digital y personalizar la apariencia de
la plataforma. Guardar manuales y archivos de soporte para comunicar el
conocimiento y la política de la empresa directamente al equipo, al mismo
tiempo que recopila todo el contenido digital y en papel en una biblioteca
multimedia. La plataforma proporciona también una manera eficaz para que los
gerentes se comuniquen con el personal sobre las normas y los procedimientos de
COVID-19, y el protocolo por fases a partir de entonces.
Dentro de my59 Mentor hay una función de “Examen” integrada
que evalúa el conocimiento antes y después de hacer un curso para averiguar el
progreso del aprendizaje. Al finalizar un curso, el personal puede descargar un
certificado para autenticar sus estudios. Este proceso se prestará a la organización y la comunicación de los
nuevos procedimientos operativos de COVID-19 de manera eficaz, demostrando que
todos los miembros del personal han leído y adquirido una comprensión clara de
las nuevas políticas a medida que entran en vigencia.
59club, le principal fournisseur de formation
et d’analyse des ventes et des services, a publié aujourd’hui my59 Mentor, son
expérience d’apprentissage virtuel intelligent, qui permet aux personnels de
revenir triomphalement au golf.
La nouvelle plateforme virtuelle présente les
programmes de formation de vente et de service de 59club, qui ont été acclamés
par la presse, depuis les stratégies de vente et de fidélisation des membres
jusqu’au perfectionnement des demandes de renseignements sur les ventes aux
entreprises et à l’amélioration de l’expérience globale des clients, en passant
par le golf et l’hôtellerie.
Les sites peuvent profiter de l’expérience du
mentor virtuel pour élargir leurs connaissances existantes, former de nouveaux
employés, améliorer les compétences du personnel et offrir des parcours de
développement personnel à tous les aspirants. Des marques blanches
supplémentaires, des vidéos et du contenu supplémentaire provenant de
contributeurs comme le célèbre Gregg Patterson, sont également accessibles sur
la plateforme, disponible 24 heures sur 24 et 7 jours sur 7 à la convenance des
membres du personnel.
La plateforme est également le véhicule idéal
pour stocker et communiquer directement avec l’équipe toutes les politiques et
les manuels de formation internes à l’entreprise, en fournissant également la
technologie nécessaire pour créer des cours de formation en ligne, vérifier les
résultats de l’apprentissage et suivre les acceptations de responsabilité au
sein d’une plateforme virtuelle conviviale, facilement accessible et en marque
blanche.
Le PDG du 59club Simon Wordsworth a déclaré :
“Nous avons reconnu la nécessité pour les organisations de contrôler leur
expérience d’apprentissage en ligne, nous avons donc construit une plateforme
que nos partenaires peuvent gérer sans aucune connaissance en matière de
codage. My59 Mentor a été développé dans un souci de simplicité ; sa conception
propre et intuitive fait de la plateforme une expérience conviviale pour les
administrateurs et les étudiants, quel que soit le dispositif utilisé.
“En cette période difficile, nous
comprenons le défi que représente la motivation du personnel et la nécessité de
renforcer le développement personnel, et c’est pourquoi l’éducation doit rester
une priorité. L’ensemble de notre contenu éducatif attend d’être découvert sur
la plateforme, quel meilleur moyen de motiver le personnel et de lui donner un
élan, en s’assurant qu’il est au top de sa forme et prêt à partir.
“Il n’y a pas un seul club de golf,
restaurant ou lieu d’accueil sur la planète qui, à court terme, continuera à
fonctionner comme d’habitude. Chaque club ou établissement sera confronté à des
problèmes aigus et importants découlant de la pandémie de COVID-19 – problèmes
que my59 mentor peut atténuer”.
Les notifications intelligentes
“push” seront directement liées aux données de l’évaluation mystère
et de l’enquête de performance d’un lieu, orientant le membre du personnel vers
la leçon pertinente au sein de la plateforme, car My59 Mentor agit
instinctivement pour renforcer les compétences du personnel et remédier à toute
lacune.
Les sites peuvent créer leurs propres
programmes d’éducation numérique en interne et personnaliser l’apparence de la
plateforme. Héberger les manuels du personnel et les fichiers d’aide pour
communiquer les connaissances et la politique de l’entreprise directement à
l’équipe, tout en rassemblant tous les contenus numériques et papier existants
dans une médiathèque. La plateforme offre également un moyen efficace pour les
responsables de communiquer avec leur personnel au sujet de leurs politiques et
procédures COVID-19 initiales, et du protocole progressif par la suite.
Dans my59 Mentor, il y a une fonction intégrée
de “Quiz” qui teste les connaissances avant et après les cours pour
évaluer les progrès. Une fois le test terminé, les personnes peuvent
télécharger des certificats pour authentifier leur réussite. Ce processus se
prête naturellement à l’organisation et à la communication efficaces des
nouvelles procédures opérationnelles COVID-19, démontrant que tous les membres
du personnel ont lu et compris clairement les nouvelles politiques au fur et à
mesure de leur entrée en vigueur.
59club, los
analistas líderes de ventas y servicios y el principal proveedor de formación
del sector, siguen apoyando a los clubes de golf con un movimiento para
producir datos financieros comparables junto con sus famosas herramientas de
evaluación comparativa.
Simon
Wordsworth director de 59club dijo: “El lanzamiento de my59 Metrics estaba ya
previsto para la primavera. Hemos estado trabajando duro para proporcionar la
información que la industria había faltado sobre varios datos monetarios de
pérdida y ganancia. Los eventos recientes nos han empujado a adaptar esta
tecnología para proveer la retroalimentación adicional a los gerentes sobre los
efectos de COVID-19 en sus clubes en el primer trimestre, y posteriormente a lo
largo de 2020, brindando análisis a corto, medio y largo plazo.
“Estos son
datos en vivo que todos necesitan en este momento, no solo ahora en esta
crisis, sino para siempre. Queremos apoyar a la industria para que pueda tomar
las decisiones financieras correctas en el futuro, basadas en evidencia
estadística real del sector.
“Durante mucho tiempo, el golf ha
tenido pocos datos sobre los que tomar las decisiones, y sentimos que esto
tenía que cambiar. Producimos datos en vivo de servicio al cliente durante años
y ahora hemos desarrollado la inteligencia dentro de my59 Metrics para medir
las finanzas. La confidencialidad siempre ha encabezado nuestra lista de tareas
pendientes, cual ética nos pone en la posición perfecta para llegar a toda la
industria y a todas las diferentes partes interesadas para ofrecer un producto
que se necesita y se necesita ahora”.
My59 Metrics, es una plataforma
analítica que proporciona datos comparables sobre las tasas operativas de la
industria, como ganancias brutas, el volumen total de negocios, ingresos y atrición
de membresías, tasas de compra, niveles de existencias, promedio de ventas
mensuales, nóminas, niveles de personal y otras variables.
Todos los datos permanecen
anónimas salvo al titular único de la cuenta de su club. Tal como todos los
productos de 59club, las aplicaciones inteligentes contienen una gran cantidad
de filtros que generan datos comparables con lugares parecidos, lo que permite
a la administración del club tomar decisiones y hacer juicios astutos sobre su
operación financiera. Todos los lugares podrán filtrar los resultados por
estilo de negocio (privado, resort, etc.), por provincia / región, por tamaño
del lugar (número de hoyos) y por estilo de campo (zonas verdes, brezales,
etc.). La funcionalidad adicional está disponible dentro de una licencia prima.
Hace 12 años que 59club evalúa el
servicio al cliente, el rendimiento de ventas del personal y la gestión de
operaciones, proporcionando indicadores claves de rendimiento en golf y hospitalidad.
Ahora con el lanzamiento de my59 Metrics, completamos el círculo de datos,
ayudando a los clubes de golf a medir y fortalecer sus operaciones financieras.
Los gerentes, los proveedores de
la industria y las partes interesadas han participado en la configuración de la
primera versión de my59 Metrics, que incluye las principales medidas claves que
facilitarán la claridad sobre los ingresos, las partidas jugadas, los costes y
los márgenes. Los lanzamientos posteriores permitirán a los clubes de golf
profundizarse en esas ámbitos principales y comprender los costes de
mantenimiento, las ofertas de servicios profesionales y los salarios de los
clubes.
El primer lanzamiento tendrá
lugar el 8 de mayo para los clubes de Inglaterra, Irlanda del Norte, Escocia y
Gales, y se invitará a los gerentes a completar el my59 Metricsdataset antes de
los finales de mayo. Al completar los datos de 2019 al mismo tiempo, se dará
cuenta del efecto que COVID-19 ha tenido en su club y en el sector en general.
Los datos mensuales se
coordinarán a partir de entonces, generando datos comparables en toda la
industria. 59club también planea trabajar con otros proveedores de tecnología
para automatizar el proceso, con el ambicioso objetivo de que para los fines de
2020 el golf pueda tener datos EN VIVO. Para aprovechar de esta oportunidad y
tomar decisiones informadas sobre la mejor manera de capear el temporal y los
efectos financieros del COVID-19, visite www.59clubeurope.com
Los analistas de servicio al cliente y la empresa de evaluación comparativa
59club anunciaron hoy que proporcionarán herramientas de encuesta de COVID-19
para los empleados diseñadas específicamente para el golf y otros lugares de
hospitalidad, de forma gratuita en medio de la crisis actual. Las herramientas
de encuesta capturan los desafíos, las preocupaciones y las oportunidades
potenciales de los empleados, todo en una instantánea fácil de usar.
Esta adición se produce poco después de que
59club pusiera a disposición herramientas de encuesta equivalentes para
dirigirse a los clientes, miembros e invitados de los sectores del golf y la
hospitalidad. Estas ofertas complementarias permanecerán disponibles durante la
crisis actual.
“Muchos clubes se preguntan si es apropiado
encuestar a sus empleados durante este tiempo”, dijo Will Hewitt, gerente
general de 59club UK. “Las implicaciones a largo plazo de la mala gestión de
las necesidades de los empleados son insuperables, y hay datos disponibles que
muestran que los comentarios de los empleados y la comunicación directa no solo
son apropiados, sino necesarios durante esta crisis. Las empresas de alto
rendimiento buscan constantemente formas de mejorar ellas mismas y mejorar a
sus empleados”.
Las herramientas de encuesta propias de 59club
permiten a los gerentes identificar las necesidades tanto de los empleados como
de los clientes, fortalecer los niveles de retención y da una dirección clara
sobre cómo mejorar la experiencia general. El panel de control inteligente
analiza los datos de una manera clara y concisa y proporciona filtros
demográficos para segmentar aún más la información, creando una instantánea
completa, manejable e inmediata de las opiniones y actitudes de los usuarios.
Los gerentes y responsables pueden usar las
plantillas de preguntas COVID-19 para construir una encuesta personal, con la
libertad de incluir preguntas adicionales personalizadas dentro de una
plantilla, también tienen la posibilidad de construir una encuesta propia
utilizando el software para adaptarse mejor a sus propios necesidades y
objetivos.
“La retroalimentación efectiva, tanto positiva
como negativa, es un conocimiento crítico en cada momento, y puede ser más
importante ahora que nunca durante estos tiempos de cambio continuo” dijo
Hewitt.
“Los clubes de mejor rendimiento siguen siendo
los que tienen los mejores resultados porque buscan constantemente las formas
de hacer el mejor aún mejor. Los gerentes que piden comentarios a propósito
obtendrán un valioso conocimiento que puede abordar cualquier debilidad o
descuido dentro de su negocio. Con tanta incertidumbre, el personal y los
clientes necesitan ser nutridos ahora más que nunca, ese proceso comienza con
hacer las preguntas correctas, en el momento correcto”.
High-profile venues across the UK and Europe recognised for service excellencein glitzy ceremony at the Forest of Arden Marriott Hotel & Country Club
The golf industry’s
very best clubs, resorts and individuals descended on The Forest of Arden
Marriott Hotel & Country Club, on Thursday March 12, 2020, with the hope of
claiming an industry ‘Oscar’ at 59club’s 10th annual Service
Excellence Awards.
A day
which started with a series of inspirational educational seminars, ended in a
glittering awards ceremony honouring the finest customer service providers for
having achieved the highest standards of excellence across 2019.
59club’s illustrious
accolades are determined by scores collected from their impartial mystery shopping
audits, which evaluate the experience afforded to visiting golfers and
prospective members, in accordance with 59club’s objective benchmarking
criteria. On the night, 59club presented 64 awards across 27 categories,
recognising ‘service excellence’ across all areas of the businesses – sales,
service, operations, retail, golf course, food & beverage and management.
With 59club continuing to reflect the very best performances, regardless of a
venue’s size, scale or profile, by segmenting several individual accolades based
on a venue’s average green fee rate, of either above or below £75 per person.
Stoke Park
and The Belfry Hotel & Resort picked up the highest prized awards of the
evening, The Ultimate Members’ Club,
and The Ultimate Golf Resort
respectively, withThe Belfry retaining their title for a
second consecutive year and Stoke Park having claimed The Ultimate accolade previously
in 2015.
Stuart
Collier, Stoke Park Director of Golf, said; “It’s
a huge honour for the entire team at Stoke Park to be awarded the prize of Ultimate
Members’ Club at this year’s 59club annual awards dinner. We have worked very
closely with 59club since 2011 and this has enabled us to review, develop and
improve the overall member and visitor experience at the club.
“At Stoke Park we are blessed to have world class
facilities but we feel the interaction with the staff is the most important
element of any visit and we rely on the 59club to provide us with real feedback
to monitor, manage and improve this”.
In addition
to being crowned The Ultimate Golf Resort, The Belfry’s celebrations continued,
as Chris
Reeve retained his Golf Manager of the Year title (>£75 category) with Jacques
Hobson crowned Food & Beverage Manager of the Year (> £75 category).
Upon collecting numerous awards personally and on behalf of The Belfry
Hotel and Resort, Chris Reeve, Director of Golf, said:“Having received
crowning glory from 59club once is truly an honour, to maintain the highest
prized accolade 2 years in a row across our entire operation amplifies the
teams solidarity for delivering the greatest experiences in golf, cementing our
position as Europe’s Ultimate Golf Resort.
“It was fantastic
to see Jacques Hobson crowned Food & Beverage Manager of the Year, and
retaining the Golf Manager of the Year title is a personal highlight in my
career – as we continue to deliver the unforgettable member and guest
experience that The Belfry is synonymous with, we all have a lot to celebrate”!
59club’s
Industry Benchmark of excellence, it’s Gold, Silver and Bronze Flag
Designations, are always a highlight of proceedings. These highly prized
accolades recognise member clubs’ and resorts that provide excellent facilities for
golfers to enjoy, as well as having achieved
the required standard of customer service throughout 2019.
This year, 59club presented 14 ‘Gold Flags’.
The deserving winners were: Celtic Manor Resort, Club de Golf
Alcanada, Forest of Arden Marriott Hotel & Country Club, Foxhills Club
& Resort, Gleneagles, Golf Son Muntaner, Los Naranjos Golf Club, Monte Rei,
Mount Juliet Estate, Rockliffe Hall, Roehampton Club, Stoke Park, The Belfry
Hotel & Resort and The Grove.
The Foxhills Collection were left revelling on
the night having been awarded Golf Group of the year, with Foxhills Club &
Resort achieving Gold Flag status, Golf Operations Team of the Year (> £75 category), and Golf
Membership Sales Team of the Year. Further celebrations saw Sophie Whitmore honoured
for her Leading Individual Golf Membership Sales Performance, and Sean Graham
crowned Golf Retail Manager of the Year (>£75 category).
Marriott Golf also boasted numerous
successes on the night, with Forest of Arden seeing Fraser Liston crowned Golf
Manager of the Year (<£75 category), with 2 further team awards recognising
their Golf Operations and Golf Sales departments,
the latter having been retained for the 4th consecutive year, as
well as the venue retaining their Gold Flag status. Tudor Park provided more
reason to celebrate after Rachel Palmer was honoured for her Leading Individual
Group Golf Sales Performance. St Pierre continued the winning streak having scooped
the Golf Membership Sales Team accolade, with Hanbury Manor achieving Silver
Flag Status.
Of this year’s awards, Simon Wordsworth, CEO at 59club,
commented: “Forest of Arden was the perfect host for our 10th
annual awards ceremony, and my unerring congratulations go to our nominees,
tonight’s winners, our supporters and everyone involved with 59club for their
commitment to perfecting service standards across our industry.
10 years
ago tonight, we celebrated our first award winning performances, and as I look
back at that wealth of data, I am privileged to have witnessed 59club quite
literally reinvent member and guest experiences across Golf & Hospitality
using technology & data to measure, train and support our clients to
achieve service excellence.
Our
promise to our clients, and to those just embarking on their journey with
59club – as 12 Franchises take hold around the world servicing golf, leisure,
spa & hospitality providers – has always been to continue supporting their
customer journey, with new tools and more intel, to equip our most ambitious
companies in their pursuit of excellence. The first half of 2020 sees ‘Business
Metrics’ and our ‘Education Platform’ launch simultaneously, with many more progressive
tools waiting in the wings”.
Other prestigious award winners on the night
included Matt Aplin of Goring & Streatley
who retained his Greenkeeper of the Year title (<£75 category), with Scott
Fenwick & Craig Haldane from Gleneagles crowned Greenkeepers of the Year in
the over £75 category.
Jonny Dye of Rockliffe Hall was hailed
Golf Retail Manager of the Year (<£75 category), whilst the Food &
Beverage Manager of the Year title (<£75 category) was presented to Glenn
McNaughton of Long Ashton Golf Club.
Five-time winner, The Vale Resort
was awarded Leisure Membership Sales Team of the Year, and Alice Cox-Cooper from
The Mere was recognised for her Leading Individual Leisure Membership Sales
Performance.
8 ‘Silver
Flags’ went to Golf Club Castelconturbia, Frilford Heath Golf Club, Hanbury
Manor Marriott Hotel & Country Club, La Manga Club, Le Golf National, The
Duke’s, St Andrews, The North Berwick Golf Club and Woodhall Spa.
A further 7
‘Bronze Flag’ Awards were presented to Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club,
Gullane Golf Club, Porters
Park Golf Club, Royal
Automobile Club, Royal
Dornoch Golf Club, Sandy Lodge Golf Club and Slaley Hall.
To recognise venues
which have shown continued commitment to engage, analyse and enrich their
member and guest experience, utilising a collateral of survey tools across
59club’s software platform, 13 ‘Service
Excellence’ designations were presented on the night. Recipients included
Aldenham
Golf & Country Club, Branston Golf & Country Club, Celtic Manor Resort,
Cotswold Hills Golf Club, Edgbaston Golf Club, Goring & Streatley Golf
Club, Long Ashton Golf Club, Macdonald Hotels & Resorts, Moor Park Golf
Club, Mount Juliet Estate, North Middlesex Golf Club, The Scandinavian and Vale
Resort. Radyr Golf Club and Stoke by Nayland
Hotel, Golf & Spa received distinction in this category achieving the
Ultimate Service Excellence honour.
Celebrations
continued the following morning as guests re-assembled for the 59club golf day,
sponsored by Golf Genius which teed off on the Arden Course, and saw the
winning individual Phil Rowsell of Asbri Golf – 59club’s most recent industry
partner – claim the Claret Jug, with an individual score of 40 points. The winning
team consisted of Eryl Williams, Richard Dinsdale both of Asbri Golf, Chris
Dowrick of Foxhills Club & Resort and Will Hewitt, 59club who led a 3-point team
victory.
Full
list of award winners can be seen in the table below.
59club ‘Service Excellence’ Award
Winners 2019/20:
The
Ultimate Members’ Club: Stoke Park
The
Ultimate Golf Resort: The Belfry Hotel & Resort
Golf
Group of the Year: Foxhills Collection
Gold
Flag Designations: Celtic Manor Resort, Club de Golf
Alcanada, Forest of Arden Marriott Hotel & Country Club, Foxhills Club
& Resort, Gleneagles, Golf Son Muntaner, Los Naranjos Golf Club, Monte Rei,
Mount Juliet Estate, Rockliffe Hall, Roehampton Club, Stoke Park, The Belfry
Hotel & Resort and The Grove.
Silver Flag
Designations: Golf Club Castelconturbia, Frilford
Heath Golf Club, Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & Country Club, La Manga Club,
Le Golf National, The Duke’s, St Andrews, The North Berwick Golf Club and Woodhall Spa.
Bronze Flag Designations: Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club, Gullane Golf Club, Porters Park Golf Club, Royal Automobile Club, Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Sandy
Lodge Golf Club and Slaley Hall.
My59
Ultimate Service Excellence Award: Radyr Golf Club and Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf & Spa
My59
Service Excellence Award: Aldenham Golf & Country Club, Branston Golf & Country
Club, Celtic Manor Resort, Cotswold Hills Golf Club, Edgbaston Golf Club, Goring
& Streatley Golf Club, Long Ashton Golf Club, Macdonald Hotels &
Resorts, Moor Park Golf Club, Mount Juliet Estate, North Middlesex Golf Club,
The Scandinavian and Vale Resort.
Golf Manager of the Year (<£75 green fee): Fraser Liston (Forest of Arden Marriott Hotel & Country Club – Aylesford Course)
Golf Manager of the Year (>£75 green fee): Chris Reeve (The Belfry Hotel
& Resort)
Greenkeeper of the Year (<£75 green fee): Matt Aplin (Goring &
Streatley)
Greenkeeper
of the Year (>£75 green fee): Scott Fenwick & Craig Haldane (Gleneagles – Kings Course)
Food and Beverage Manager of the Year (<£75
green fee): Glenn
McNaughton (Long Ashton Golf Club)
Food and Beverage Manager of the Year (>£75
green fee): Jacques
Hobson (The Belfry Hotel & Resort)
Golf Retail Manager of the Year (<£75 green fee): Jonny Dye (Rockliffe Hall)
Golf Retail Manager of the Year (>£75 green fee): Sean Graham (Foxhills Club &
Resort)
Golf
Operations Team of the Year (<£75 green fee): Forest of Arden Marriott Hotel &
Country Club (Aylesford Course)
Golf
Operations Team of the Year (>£75 green fee: Foxhills Club & Resort
Leading Individual Group Golf Sales Performance: Rachel Palmer (Tudor Park Marriott
Hotel & Country Club)
Golf Sales Team of the Year: Forest of Arden Marriott Hotel & Country Club
Leading Individual Golf Membership Sales Performance: Sophie Whitmore (Foxhills Club
& Resort)
Golf
Membership Sales Team of the Year: Foxhills Club & Resort & St Pierre
Marriott Hotel & Country Club
Leading
Individual Leisure Membership Sales Performance: Alice Cox-Cooper
(The Mere)
Leisure
Membership Sales Team of the Year: Vale Resort
59club continues growth with formation of West Europe & North Africa division to improve sales and service etiquette, increasing customer satisfaction, revenue and profits
January 30, 2020: Golf and leisure clubs, hotels, restaurants and spa destinations can now benefit from an in-depth vision into their operational successes and areas in need of improvement thanks to the formation of a dedicated division set to cover France; Belgium; Holland; Switzerland; Germany; Austria; Morocco and Tunisia.
The new division will be led by the highly decorated General Manager of La Golf National; Paul Armitage, who alongside his commitments with the club will also co-own and drive 59club’s expansion into Western Europe & North Africa, the latest addition to the world’s leading customer service specialists – currently operating across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the USA.
59club are famed for their market-leading performance management tools, their customer satisfaction surveys, mystery shopping audits, whilst their training and education services are widely regarded as best-in-class across the industry.
Trusted by many of the world’s leading venues, 59club delivers an acclaimed route to measure and develop customer service levels and staff sales performance. Their intel and expertise hold the key to drive growth, providing a significant increase to customer acquisition, satisfaction, retention & profitability within businesses of all sizes.
59club has been trading across Europe for over 10 years having engaged with many of the leading golf & hospitality venues including European Tour Destinations; La Golf National, Terre Blanche, Diamond Country Club and Golf Club St Leon-Rot alongside Monte Rei, Alcanada and La Manga amongst many others. With a dedicated local presence, 59club’s hold in the region is set to perfect the golf, leisure and hospitality experience afforded to consumers whilst driving club revenues to new heights.
59club’s online dashboard allows these managers to compare results to the industry benchmark, elite-performing properties and even direct competitor venues of their choice, making it one of the only ways for venues to measure how well they are performing within their market.
Following the launch of 59club West Europe & North Africa, 59club CEO, Simon Wordsworth, said: “We’re absolutely thrilled to extend our scope of service into Europe and North Africa and hit the ground running, with the launch of this new business. 59club is all about the people, we couldn’t ask for better partners to lead this division than Paul Armitage & Sylvain Marcati who will drive our expansion within the region. We have the utmost confidence in them both. Our objective data-collection and analytical models will help golf clubs and other hospitality properties to achieve more out of their operations and begin to put customer service at the forefront of club and resort management once again. It’s great to see our product now available in the French language.”
Paul has been working in the golf industry since 2003. He has filled several roles as GM and building brand reputation and business in various golf facilities, and also as Managing Director for one of Europe’s leading Golf Networks.
Paul joined the French Golf Federation in 2014 to help prepare Le Golf National, not only to host the 2018 Ryder Cup, but also to raise the levels of service and experience to resemble that of other major tournament golf destinations around the world.
Working with 59club tools to help improve standards, and with Paul’s knowledge of the needs of modern golfers – it has been a recipe for success. It was therefore an obvious choice for Paul to help bring 59club to wider markets across Western Europe, Morocco & Tunisia.
“Customer service has to be the number one priority for all hospitality providers” said Paul Armitage, Managing Partner of 59club Western Europe & North Africa. “In today’s world, competition is fierce. Once you lose a customer to poor service, they are likely never to return. That’s why 59club was created. It’s the only golf, leisure and hospitality-specific benchmarking tool in the world that provides this type of objective analysis, ensuring operators are making informed decisions to increase customer retention.
“I am extremely proud to have excelled under the armoury of tools provided by 59club at La Golf National, and equally as excited to drive the same significant successes for my peers across the region, that an association with 59club delivers.”
