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In the hospitality industry, where service and empathy are essential, leadership must go beyond managing tasks—it must focus on understanding people. A manager’s true strength is revealed not just in achieving efficiency, but in seeing beyond surface behaviors to uncover the humanity behind them. When team members struggle, it’s easy to label them as problems…
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What do you love most about working in hospitality?
In the ever-evolving world of hospitality, staying ahead means more than offering a clean room and a warm smile—it’s about anticipating needs before guests even arrive. Successful hoteliers know their communities as well as they know their front desks, tapping into local events, visitor bureaus, and industry meetups to stay in the loop. This blend…
Hospitality
How do you handle customer feedback?
In the hospitality industry, feedback isn’t just a formality—it’s the cornerstone of growth. As travel trends shift and guest expectations evolve, hotels must do more than simply offer a place to sleep; they must deliver experiences worth remembering. This means embracing every piece of guest feedback, not as criticism, but as insight into how to…
Hospitality
Empower Your People
In an era where automation and efficiency often eclipse the human element, the hospitality industry stands at a crossroads. Once known for its warmth and service-centric ethos, it now grapples with a shrinking talent pool that truly understands the value of genuine hospitality. The challenge isn’t just about finding people—it’s about finding the right people,…
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Why the Best Leaders Don’t Climb Straight Ladders: How Karen Alter Built Success Through Detours
As companies push to decarbonize, modernize infrastructure, and bring new technologies to market, the leaders who stand out aren’t always the ones who followed a straight career path. Increasingly, it’s the people with the zigzags—the folks who’ve worked across different industries, adapted to new environments, and learned to make decisions under pressure—who bring the clarity…
Allowing Inspiration to Grow from Intuition: How Inner Guidance Drives Real Career Growth
In a workplace culture increasingly shaped by rapid change, rising expectations, and new definitions of leadership, professionals are redefining success beyond titles and output. Empathy, intuition, and inner alignment — once seen as intangible “nice-to-haves” — are now emerging as competitive advantages. As recent workforce studies show that human-centered leaders drive higher engagement and…
SEO in the Age of AI: What CMOs and CEOs Need to Know About AEO and GEO
In an era when AI-driven search experiences are reshaping how customers discover brands, marketing leaders are navigating a confusing landscape of new acronyms, shifting behaviors, and bold industry predictions. Despite widespread claims that “SEO is dead,” the data tells a different story: organic search traffic has continued to grow even as platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini,…
From the Bench: How Research Can Help Us Build a Future-Ready Global Healthcare Workforce
The Care Anywhere podcast is taking listeners behind the scenes of global health workforce research with a brand-new series: From the Bench. In this kickoff episode, host Lea Sims talks with Dr. Lauren Herckis of TruMerit about how research can move from data to real-world impact — revealing how evidence, collaboration, and curiosity are driving…
