Welcome to The Housekeeping Director
The Housekeeping Director is a website dedicated to all Housekeeping Managers and Supervisors no matter your title from Inspector to Director of Rooms.
This is your source for all things Housekeeping
This website was built to give Supervisors and Managers the information they need to effectively run a Housekeeping department. Information will be added on a regular basis and YOU are an important part of this website. Feedback is always welcome and necessary to ensure that each of us can do what we love or have been tasked to do - Housekeeping.
The Business of Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping is more than keeping a hotel clean or spotless. It can also be an indicator of the current or future state of the business. This is because people, whether they’re looking for a five-star accommodation or just a small but decent place to spend the night, will always use cleanliness as one of the most important factors that can help them decide if a hotel is right for them. Therefore, poor housekeeping means poor business, and this has been proven in so many cases. Aside from being an important issue for potential guests, the quality of hotel housekeeping is also important for management because it can affect the need for costly refurbishment or a full renovation of the place. Neither is cheap, that’s why proper housekeeping must be practiced to prevent expenses for things that could very well be avoided. All in all, proper housekeeping is a win-win situation, both for hotel guests and hotel operators. (Source www.dancingforselfesteem.org-Admin)
This is your source for all things Housekeeping
- From Small to Large hotels
- From Limited to Full Service
- From Bed and Breakfast to Resorts
- From Supervisors to General Managers
- From Toilets to Chandeliers
This website was built to give Supervisors and Managers the information they need to effectively run a Housekeeping department. Information will be added on a regular basis and YOU are an important part of this website. Feedback is always welcome and necessary to ensure that each of us can do what we love or have been tasked to do - Housekeeping.
The Business of Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping is more than keeping a hotel clean or spotless. It can also be an indicator of the current or future state of the business. This is because people, whether they’re looking for a five-star accommodation or just a small but decent place to spend the night, will always use cleanliness as one of the most important factors that can help them decide if a hotel is right for them. Therefore, poor housekeeping means poor business, and this has been proven in so many cases. Aside from being an important issue for potential guests, the quality of hotel housekeeping is also important for management because it can affect the need for costly refurbishment or a full renovation of the place. Neither is cheap, that’s why proper housekeeping must be practiced to prevent expenses for things that could very well be avoided. All in all, proper housekeeping is a win-win situation, both for hotel guests and hotel operators. (Source www.dancingforselfesteem.org-Admin)
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Tips & Training
This page will give you tips for cleaning, techniques with what works best, and training help and ideas. As always your input is welcome and helps others so please send me your tips, techniques, and training ideas. Also send me the ones that didn't work as planned, it will help others from going down the same road.
Housekeeper's Blog
This page was made just for you to share your ideas, thoughts, comments, rants, raves, and stories. The more we share the better off we'll be and the better we will be at our careers. Housekeeping is something you love or just something you do, but we can all share and grow by helping one another.
Manager's Advice
This is my managerial soapbox, with many years of experience, I've grown from inexperienced small town guy waiting on tables to a seasoned Director of Housekeeping for a full service hotel. Over the years I've worked in small hotels, 93-160 rooms, large hotels up to 407 rooms, Ski Resorts, and Beach Resorts so I've been around the block. I've learned many things from interviewing, hiring, training, terminating and everything in between. The information in this area is to help you with difficult decisions, HR advice so you don't get yourself in trouble without knowing, and help when you don't have anywhere to turn. With over 10 years of managerial experience, I'll be honest most of those years I've done some things I shouldn't have because I was led in the wrong direction or didn't know what I was doing. Life tends to teach lessons whether we want it to or not, and so I've learned and still learning and growing, but I hope to help you from making the same mistakes I did.
Friendly Links
This is an excellent area to find helpful links on all things housekeeping. If you have a link you would like to add please contact me and I would be more than happy to add it to the website.
Contact Me
Well folks this is where you can contact me with any questions, ideas, articles, rants, raves, or etc. that you would like posted on the website or would like to discuss. I'm here for you if you need me so send your questions and I'll see what I can do to help you out. Also you can follow my tweets, from the best housekeeping twit there is. Thank you for stopping by.
You can also email me any questions directly at director_housekeeping@yahoo.com
Michael Chandler
This page will give you tips for cleaning, techniques with what works best, and training help and ideas. As always your input is welcome and helps others so please send me your tips, techniques, and training ideas. Also send me the ones that didn't work as planned, it will help others from going down the same road.
Housekeeper's Blog
This page was made just for you to share your ideas, thoughts, comments, rants, raves, and stories. The more we share the better off we'll be and the better we will be at our careers. Housekeeping is something you love or just something you do, but we can all share and grow by helping one another.
Manager's Advice
This is my managerial soapbox, with many years of experience, I've grown from inexperienced small town guy waiting on tables to a seasoned Director of Housekeeping for a full service hotel. Over the years I've worked in small hotels, 93-160 rooms, large hotels up to 407 rooms, Ski Resorts, and Beach Resorts so I've been around the block. I've learned many things from interviewing, hiring, training, terminating and everything in between. The information in this area is to help you with difficult decisions, HR advice so you don't get yourself in trouble without knowing, and help when you don't have anywhere to turn. With over 10 years of managerial experience, I'll be honest most of those years I've done some things I shouldn't have because I was led in the wrong direction or didn't know what I was doing. Life tends to teach lessons whether we want it to or not, and so I've learned and still learning and growing, but I hope to help you from making the same mistakes I did.
Friendly Links
This is an excellent area to find helpful links on all things housekeeping. If you have a link you would like to add please contact me and I would be more than happy to add it to the website.
Contact Me
Well folks this is where you can contact me with any questions, ideas, articles, rants, raves, or etc. that you would like posted on the website or would like to discuss. I'm here for you if you need me so send your questions and I'll see what I can do to help you out. Also you can follow my tweets, from the best housekeeping twit there is. Thank you for stopping by.
You can also email me any questions directly at director_housekeeping@yahoo.com
Michael Chandler
