6/25 Roundtable: What Takes GM Time and Whether It’s Right
TRSA’s June 25 General Managers’ Virtual Roundtable (1 p.m. EDT) will enable GMs to swap strategies for personal priority-setting in bearing ultimate responsibility for all activity in linen, uniform and facility services plants they oversee. Discussion will support their efforts to be flexible with their time as they oversee sales, service, laundry production and administration operations of laundry facilities.
Left to their own devices to decide what tasks to perform personally to fulfill that responsibility and what to delegate, GMs face steady challenges in such decisions. They need to ensure all bases are covered and sometimes may have to be more of a player than a coach in sales, service, production or administration.
To get an idea of which functions take too much of their time and others they wish they could get more involved in, the roundtable will cover:
- Staff Hiring/Onboarding
- Staff Retention
- Other Workforce Issues
- Customer Relations
- Government/Standards Compliance
TRSA virtual roundtables are collaborative sessions. Through Zoom they simulate the networking of a small TRSA face-to-face meeting, sitting at a round or hollow square table, seeing everybody in the room. Flexible agendas strike the needed balance between enabling all participants enough time to fully explore a topic and moving on to other subjects when the group has provided a suitable variety of perspectives on it.
Roundtables differ from presentations and seminars because there is no single instructor. You benefit from hearing from a variety of peers, not just one individual. Members and other subject-matter experts facilitate roundtables, asking simple questions of participants related to the agenda topics that everyone on the Zoom can answer, keeping conversations going. This allows attendees to complete their thoughts and ask questions of each other to maximize the value of participation.
Click here to register and receive the event Zoom link. Virtual roundtables are free to TRSA members and not recorded.