Smoking At Work – Sending The Wrong Message?

As a health club owner, what image do you want your gym to project? Clean, state of the art exercise equipment? People working hard to live up to their New Year resolutions? A general feeling of healthy living? How about an employee lighting up a cigarette in the front parking lot? It is difficult to imagine any activity more at odds with a health club’s fundamental message than smoking. This begs the question: can I, as an employer, do something about it? The answer: maybe.

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Health Benefits of Exercise

Exercise is truly a workout for the body and mind. It can help prevent illnesses, keep you energized, lift your spirits, and improve your athletic performance. Investing your time and money in exercise is an investment in a long and healthy life.

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Hiring and Cross-Training Your Personal Trainers to Achieve Success

Personal trainers have a huge impact on all gyms. It is essential that your personal trainers know the ins and outs of your gym’s processes. If you take a look at staff ratios for gyms, the majority of them will come from the personal training team.  Wouldn’t it be great if they could help with all aspects of club operations?  This allows them to touch many more members which will benefit the club’s bottom line as well as their own.

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Five-Star Service is so Simple! Is it?

Recently, my husband and I chose a trendy restaurant to celebrate our wedding anniversary.  We had heard wonderful things about their superb service and the excellent quality of food.  On popular rating websites, they are given five stars for food and service.  We were excited to have our anniversary dinner at such a highly touted locale.  When we made the reservation, we were asked if we were celebrating a special occasion.  they might do something a little special for us during dinner, considering they asked.  We arrived to the restaurant and walked into a romantic setting.  So far, they were meeting our expectations. 

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Recording Events in the Workplace and Other Social Media Issues

These days, blurring the line between “professional” and “personal” social networking has never been easier. Risqué pictures of an employee in a club uniform can be posted on Facebook with the click of a mouse, but at great potential cost to the company’s reputation. Similarly, with or without harmful intent, an employee can undermine a company’s sustained effort in building and maintaining an important trade secret by posting a photo or a recording in a social media venue.

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