This comprehensive handbook will clearly demonstrate how to set up, operate and manage a financially successful bed-and-breakfast or small hotel.

This comprehensive handbook will clearly demonstrate how to set up, operate and manage a financially successful bed-and-breakfast or small hotel.

Book & CD-ROM. Ask any manager today and they will say their biggest concern is the competition for talented, good employees. The business costs and impact of employee turnover can be grouped into four major categories: costs resulting from a person leaving, hiring costs, training costs and lost productivity costs. The estimated cost to replace an employee is at least 150 percent of the person's base salary. As you can see, managers must learn to hire, train and keep your employees highly motivated. This book will help you to learn the fundamentals of sound hiring, how to identify high-performance candidates and how to spot evasions. You will learn to create a workplace full of self-motivated employees who are highly purpose-driven. The book contains a wide assortment of carefully worded questions that help to make the process more effective. Innovative step-by-step descriptions of how to recruit, interview, hire, train and keep the best people for every position in your organisation. This book is filled to the brim with innovative and fun training ideas (that cost little or nothing) and ideas for increasing employee involvement and enthusiasm. When you get your employees involved and enthused, you will keep them interested and working with you, not against you. With the help of this book, get started today on building your workplace into one that inspires employees to do excellent work because they really want to!

COLLECTOR'S EDITION - SOFTCOVER: Expanded and Revised Second Edition of a must have guidebook to success in the Bed and Breakfast Industry in the 21st Century. Great for aspiring, new or experienced innkeepers. This book covers innkeeping basics, but addresses the Internet topics in detail and helps the reader understand the steps necessary to successfully market a B&B on the Internet.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains all the forms, over 475, available in the book in pdf format, and can be customized and printed.

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