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What has become normal in your venue?

Hospitality moves quickly. Guests keep arriving, shifts change, problems need immediate answers and leaders spend much of the day reacting.
In that environment, inconsistent standards, avoidable friction and missed opportunities can become part of the scenery.
Feels Like Friday helps hospitality owners and leaders step outside the operation, examine what is actually happening and decide where attention will have the greatest value.
60 minutes · $276 + GST
Portrait of René Van Delft in a warmly lit hospitality setting.
Portrait of René Van Delft in a warmly lit hospitality setting.

Busy can hide a great deal.

You may recognise
  • standards changing between shifts, leaders or venues
  • training that feels useful in the room but doesn’t consistently carry into service
  • guest feedback that doesn’t match the experience you believe you deliver
  • managers avoiding difficult conversations or applying expectations differently
  • teams working hard while the same service, communication or sales issues return
  • a strong venue that could perform more consistently, but no one can agree where to start
The visible symptom may be real. It may simply not be the whole story.

“The team needs more training” may be the story. What does the evidence say?

Notice

Service or performance varies.

Story

The team needs more training or motivation.

The Gap

The underlying influence may instead involve unclear standards, leadership inconsistency, role confusion, systems, confidence or the way performance is reinforced.

Evidence

Examine the guest journey, leadership behaviours, conversations, processes and day-to-day environment.

Act

Focus development and operational effort on what is actually shaping the result.
This isn’t about finding fault. It’s about making sure effort is aimed at the right target.
A closer look

A fresh view across the moments that shape the venue.

Depending on the situation, the work may explore
  • the guest journey and moments that matter
  • leadership consistency and accountability
  • team communication and role clarity
  • service and sales behaviours
  • expectations, standards and how they are reinforced
  • operational processes creating unnecessary effort
  • strengths that should be protected and built upon

Shape the response around the evidence—not a standard package.

The Clarity Session is the common first step. If a deeper engagement is useful, the next stage may include observation, leadership conversations, a customer-journey review, Extended DISC® profiling, facilitated workshops or done-with-you improvement work.
René will recommend a response only after the issue and context are clearer.
Track record

Practical work. Thoughtful questions. Better conversations.

Participant feedback

32 responses from recent workshops

  1. Informative, collaborative, insightful and inspiring.

    Leadership workshop participant
  2. Fantastic session, genuinely helpful, engaging and uplifting.

    Assistant manager workshop participant
  3. Great training as always, more interactive and engaging this time!

    Confident conversations workshop participant
  4. Engaging and insightful. Gave some great ideas about how to conduct myself at work.

    Customer service workshop participant
  5. Really well delivered and insightful message. All very achievable and offered as an aid to better improve results and work life.

    Manager workshop participant
  6. Great! Very insightful. Engaging. Left feeling motivated with a better understanding of my colleagues and myself

    DISC workshop participant
  7. My first ever team meeting and i thought it was extremely helpful and engaging

    Leadership workshop participant
  8. Very well constructed and interactive

    Leadership workshop participant
  9. From these past few workshops I’ve learnt how much our values and behaviours shape both our guest and staff culture.

    Leadership workshop participant
  10. It was very informative and we touched subjects that are very important in our roles.

    Leadership workshop participant
  11. As said in our first meeting I was quite skeptical about this process as I have been to quite a few in my career and never found them to be anything more than corpo buzzword nonsense. But after our first meeting I went into this with a more open mind and can honestly say I have found this to be very useful. I think this training will result in a much better work culture and it was a pleasure to meet you.

    Leadership workshop participant
  12. Great session , tons of value from Renee

    Assistant manager workshop participant
  13. Very informative and useful information

    Assistant manager workshop participant
  14. Third time I've been to Renee's training session. Always engaging, great communication and always giving me something to think about how I can be better at my job

    Confident conversations workshop participant
  15. It was really helpful and outlines a lot of skill gaps that I have

    Confident conversations workshop participant
  16. Renee always makes the sessions fun and easy to engage with

    Manager workshop participant
  17. I very much enjoy how repetitive the trainings are with slight changes to keep us learning. Really brings home the importance of what we are striving for

    Guest experience workshop participant
  18. I thought the content was relevant and engaging

    Guest experience workshop participant
  19. Great learning opportunity, some valuable points I can take away from this.

    Customer service workshop participant
  20. Friendly and interactive host. Session was enjoyable and informative

    Customer service workshop participant
  21. It was great! Loved it and feeling confident

    Customer service workshop participant
  22. Thank you Rene, I truly enjoyed today’s session and feel inspired to improve my knowledge and personal branding / customer relationships

    Customer service workshop participant
  23. Renee was amazing to learn from, she has great experience and a beautiful personality and makes everything fun.

    Customer service workshop participant
  24. I enjoyed the session. I feel as all the information that was shared with us during the session was well presented, easy to digest and extremely applicable to me. Rene is very engaging and charismatic, which makes it easy to keep focused and involved in the task at hand.

    Creating excellence workshop participant
  25. The session was interactive and lots of questions asked to help keep us engaged. I also enjoyed the references such as the oxpecker and fly as that sticks well in the memory.

    Creating excellence workshop participant
  26. It was a very useful and informative session, the information was delivered well and has stuck clearly in my mind

    Creating excellence workshop participant
  27. Very good! Relevant and practical skills that were helpful

    Creating excellence workshop participant
  28. Loved how it wasn’t just information on a slide show. It was engaging and interesting

    Customer service workshop participant
  29. Really good seminar. Learnt a few things and will be taking a lot of that information with me to work.

    Customer service workshop participant
  30. Loved this. Very interactive. Thought Blamey staff really participated.

    Customer service workshop participant
  31. Rene is always excellent with her training and delivery. It is always an enjoyable experience.

    Leadership workshop participant
  32. Really enjoyed this training, it gave me the opportunity to say what I need in an environment without distractions, so I know I was heard and understood.

    Leadership workshop participant

Selected organisations René has worked with

Published in QHA Review
Swipe to explore selected organisations.
Mercure Hotel Centro Port Macquarie
Fernhill Tavern
O'Hara & Co Hotels
Palm & Pawn
Manning River Hotel
Gracemere Hotel
Australian Hotel Young
Tourist Hotel Queanbeyan
Bull & Bush Medowie
Diggerman Experience
Farmers Home Hotel
Fredo Pub, Macleay River Hotel
Hastings Hotel
Lake Cathie Tavern
Lakeside Village Tavern
Little Shack
Long Flat Pub
Old Bar Tavern
Orange Cellars
Parkhurst Hotel
Robin Hood Hotel
The Rutherford Hotel
Settlers Inn
Sportsmens Club Hotel
Springdale Heights Tavern
The Blamey Hotel
The Bradford Hotel
The Ophir Hotel
Turvey Park Hotel
WIN Corporation
Practical, engaging and tailored.Leadership · customer experience · communication · team performance.
Professional toolkit

Professional tools and accreditations

Extended DISC Accredited Consultant badge in magenta.
Meta Dynamics Association Level I Certified badge in grey.
Sales Competence Accredited Consultant badge in red.

Bring the issue that keeps returning.

Use the Clarity Session to examine the symptom, question the current story and identify the next move worth testing.
60 minutes · $276 + GST
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