Thursday, August 17, 2006
Life long lerning.
All beginnings are difficult to be achieved!
It starts with a good idea.
The short courses offered by the CDI are unique. As far as I know, there is no school in Indonesia that is offering this kind of short courses. Most employees need to get knowledge that will help them to grow in their career but they do not have the time it free themselves from work for more than one week.
As an employee you cannot expect that the hotel is paying for all the investment into your career. But the hotel can help you by let you pay in installments.
You can also safe for the courses an pay cash and you will get an other rebate of 5%. You can pay when register and you can get 10% rebate. (6 month in advance)
We want to make these courses affordable to all hotel employees who want to advance in their career.
“ A life long learning”, this is our idea for growing and staying in business. Or making and keeping yourself “Employable”.
It requires money to implement ideas but if you do not have that “kind of money” it requires creativity.
When we started with some short courses in 2002, we learned that even with a small advertisement in the newspaper and a hotel supporting our idea we hardly could get participants. So we could conclude that we need a lot of money to advertise these courses every year.
A school is a product like any service you want to sell, you need to advertise. It requires a lot of money. We are developing so many products and finance them “organically” and this means we do not have much money available to advertise. So we came up with the unique idea to let Choice Hotel Employees to become sales agents and if they bring participants to the course then they will get it as an award for free. So if you get 4 paying participants you are getting one course for free.
We shall also have a membership and if you bring 5 Members than your membership will be free for the current year.
We shall produce promotion material and will forward it to the HRD Department of each hotel and you can get it from there and use it as a sales person. As you know these courses are also sold to outside hotel employees. We are a public institution and anybody can join. The membership will bring a lot of benefits. The benefits will be described und “Membership”
The first courses will be conducted in August for Department Head Cross Training and for basic ranks and supervisors in October.
In one town you can have one course provided you will have 12 paying students. If your hotel can produce 12 paying students then the course can be in your hotel. If one hotel is organizing the courses they can get for 12 paying students they can get 3 free and to contra with us against free room and food for the teacher they can get an other 2 free. So pay for 12 and get 17 Seats. Each class can have no more than 25 students. The hotel can choose the 2 students they want to sponsor or they can give the benefits to the students and instead that each would have to pay Rp. 1.000.000 the hotel can share it and pay Rp. 12.000.000/17= Rp. 750.000 only. This is fully up to the hotel. It can also give the 2 seats for contra to two individuals. The exact price will be published for each course soon. We are now doing budgets and costing.
Our short courses for 2006
The Supervisor.
This course is for basic ranking file employees. Such as waiters, cooks, stewards and maids, floor supervisors, front office agents, accountants.
It is for people who want to become supervisors. As you might have noticed hard working people are getting promoted but a promotion does not just mean that they just keep on hard working, it requires more knowledge. As a supervisor you are in charge of a small group of people. You have to lead them, handle their problems and train them. If you lead and train them well you will benefit from their “good and hard working.” You will be promoted to the next level. So it is worse while to train and show good leadership.
As you can see, the captain or the chef de parties, the floor supervisor’s job is very different from “just working”. We shall give preference to people who also have the education for a promotion. This investment will help you to move up the leader. The price of this course will be Rp.1.000.000. per person.
The courses will be in October exact date and time will be published. It can be conducted in every hotel provided you will get 12 paying students.
Cross Departmental Training Courses
Front Office
Housekeeping
Accounting
Food and Beverages
Sales and Marketing.
These courses are for Department Heads who want to become Executive Assistant and eventually General Manager. Let’s say you are a front office manager you will need to get good knowledge about other departments. In order to qualify to the GM School you must have to attend all these courses except the Front Office course. The location for these courses will be where we have most applicants. If you can get 12 paying students it could be at your hotel or in your city. The price of these course will be Rp.1.000.000
Leadership for result.
This is a program for supervisors who want to qualify to become a Department Head. It will teach about how to plan and how to lead a department. How to motivate your associates to excel their performance. This course will be in October.
Membership
To be entitled for a free course by selling the course to other participants you must become a member of the “Life long learning club” This will bring you a lot of additional benefits. Let’s say during the next few month you will bring 8 people to attend one course you will get a total of two courses free. This will be credit to your account and you can use it for future courses you wish to attend.
The membership will be Rp. 90.000 per year, but if you bring 5 new paying members than your membership will be free.
If you as a member attend one course per year than in future you do not need to pay for membership.
We are developing a Website and it will give you all the information you require. The “Life long learning club” will be a fully digital.
The first registering 30 members will be free. The next 30 members will get it for Rp. 45.000. So it is worse while to act fast. It shows that procrastination does not pay. Send your name and position, as well Email address to:
XXXXXXXXXX
In future this website will also have a section for Job opportunities in Indonesia and in other countries. This will become your page when ever you are looking for an advancement or an other job.
Plus it has a section where you might find your “Sweet Heart” who is working in the hotel industry.
You will get regular news letters who will give you the latest information about the development of the hotel and tourism industry in Indonesia and in other countries.
Next year program ready by September 2006
We designed about 120 different courses. We however cannot start with all of them at the same time. That is why we start in 2005 with 3 basic programs. Depending on demand we shall repeat these courses.
For the Year 2007 we see that we shall have at least 10 different kind of courses to offer. So watch out for the September 2006 for the 2007 Program.
The advantage of being a Choice Hotels Associate.
Choice Hotels Indonesia is the founder of the CDI and Choice Hotels Indonesia Associates will get the benefits of getting special benefits. Such us becoming a representative for the CDI courses. Newsletters and all the many benefits listed under membership above.
Any Comments or Inputs are welcome
It starts with a good idea.
The short courses offered by the CDI are unique. As far as I know, there is no school in Indonesia that is offering this kind of short courses. Most employees need to get knowledge that will help them to grow in their career but they do not have the time it free themselves from work for more than one week.
As an employee you cannot expect that the hotel is paying for all the investment into your career. But the hotel can help you by let you pay in installments.
You can also safe for the courses an pay cash and you will get an other rebate of 5%. You can pay when register and you can get 10% rebate. (6 month in advance)
We want to make these courses affordable to all hotel employees who want to advance in their career.
“ A life long learning”, this is our idea for growing and staying in business. Or making and keeping yourself “Employable”.
It requires money to implement ideas but if you do not have that “kind of money” it requires creativity.
When we started with some short courses in 2002, we learned that even with a small advertisement in the newspaper and a hotel supporting our idea we hardly could get participants. So we could conclude that we need a lot of money to advertise these courses every year.
A school is a product like any service you want to sell, you need to advertise. It requires a lot of money. We are developing so many products and finance them “organically” and this means we do not have much money available to advertise. So we came up with the unique idea to let Choice Hotel Employees to become sales agents and if they bring participants to the course then they will get it as an award for free. So if you get 4 paying participants you are getting one course for free.
We shall also have a membership and if you bring 5 Members than your membership will be free for the current year.
We shall produce promotion material and will forward it to the HRD Department of each hotel and you can get it from there and use it as a sales person. As you know these courses are also sold to outside hotel employees. We are a public institution and anybody can join. The membership will bring a lot of benefits. The benefits will be described und “Membership”
The first courses will be conducted in August for Department Head Cross Training and for basic ranks and supervisors in October.
In one town you can have one course provided you will have 12 paying students. If your hotel can produce 12 paying students then the course can be in your hotel. If one hotel is organizing the courses they can get for 12 paying students they can get 3 free and to contra with us against free room and food for the teacher they can get an other 2 free. So pay for 12 and get 17 Seats. Each class can have no more than 25 students. The hotel can choose the 2 students they want to sponsor or they can give the benefits to the students and instead that each would have to pay Rp. 1.000.000 the hotel can share it and pay Rp. 12.000.000/17= Rp. 750.000 only. This is fully up to the hotel. It can also give the 2 seats for contra to two individuals. The exact price will be published for each course soon. We are now doing budgets and costing.
Our short courses for 2006
The Supervisor.
This course is for basic ranking file employees. Such as waiters, cooks, stewards and maids, floor supervisors, front office agents, accountants.
It is for people who want to become supervisors. As you might have noticed hard working people are getting promoted but a promotion does not just mean that they just keep on hard working, it requires more knowledge. As a supervisor you are in charge of a small group of people. You have to lead them, handle their problems and train them. If you lead and train them well you will benefit from their “good and hard working.” You will be promoted to the next level. So it is worse while to train and show good leadership.
As you can see, the captain or the chef de parties, the floor supervisor’s job is very different from “just working”. We shall give preference to people who also have the education for a promotion. This investment will help you to move up the leader. The price of this course will be Rp.1.000.000. per person.
The courses will be in October exact date and time will be published. It can be conducted in every hotel provided you will get 12 paying students.
Cross Departmental Training Courses
Front Office
Housekeeping
Accounting
Food and Beverages
Sales and Marketing.
These courses are for Department Heads who want to become Executive Assistant and eventually General Manager. Let’s say you are a front office manager you will need to get good knowledge about other departments. In order to qualify to the GM School you must have to attend all these courses except the Front Office course. The location for these courses will be where we have most applicants. If you can get 12 paying students it could be at your hotel or in your city. The price of these course will be Rp.1.000.000
Leadership for result.
This is a program for supervisors who want to qualify to become a Department Head. It will teach about how to plan and how to lead a department. How to motivate your associates to excel their performance. This course will be in October.
Membership
To be entitled for a free course by selling the course to other participants you must become a member of the “Life long learning club” This will bring you a lot of additional benefits. Let’s say during the next few month you will bring 8 people to attend one course you will get a total of two courses free. This will be credit to your account and you can use it for future courses you wish to attend.
The membership will be Rp. 90.000 per year, but if you bring 5 new paying members than your membership will be free.
If you as a member attend one course per year than in future you do not need to pay for membership.
We are developing a Website and it will give you all the information you require. The “Life long learning club” will be a fully digital.
The first registering 30 members will be free. The next 30 members will get it for Rp. 45.000. So it is worse while to act fast. It shows that procrastination does not pay. Send your name and position, as well Email address to:
XXXXXXXXXX
In future this website will also have a section for Job opportunities in Indonesia and in other countries. This will become your page when ever you are looking for an advancement or an other job.
Plus it has a section where you might find your “Sweet Heart” who is working in the hotel industry.
You will get regular news letters who will give you the latest information about the development of the hotel and tourism industry in Indonesia and in other countries.
Next year program ready by September 2006
We designed about 120 different courses. We however cannot start with all of them at the same time. That is why we start in 2005 with 3 basic programs. Depending on demand we shall repeat these courses.
For the Year 2007 we see that we shall have at least 10 different kind of courses to offer. So watch out for the September 2006 for the 2007 Program.
The advantage of being a Choice Hotels Associate.
Choice Hotels Indonesia is the founder of the CDI and Choice Hotels Indonesia Associates will get the benefits of getting special benefits. Such us becoming a representative for the CDI courses. Newsletters and all the many benefits listed under membership above.
Any Comments or Inputs are welcome
