One of the takeaways that I got from Life and Finance Coach
David Lund yesterday at the monthly luncheon meeting at the Marriott San Francisco
is communication. David, a former
regional controller for Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, reminded us that not only
do hospitality managers need to be familiar with accounting and finance, such
as reading a budget and understanding a financial statement, but the need for
effective communication is paramount to succeed in the workplace.
Dr. Yinghua Huang, hospitality professor at San Jose State
University, attended yesterday’s meeting along with students and officers from
the SJSU’s HFTP student chapter. They
have been recognized as a campus organization this semester. And we look forward to partner with the
student chapter for future events. And
we open the idea of mentoring students who aspire to become future controllers,
directors of finance, and chief financial officers.
I reminded the students to check out www.hospitalityscholarships.org,
a website dedicated to reward current hospitality students to
scholarships. The students need to
hustle to make the October 13, 2013, deadline for scholarship
applications. This website is sponsored
by the Hotel & Restaurant Foundation, which was founded years ago to assist
students with financial aid at City College of San Francisco. Now, eight colleges with hospitality
programs, benefit from the association’s awards. Our chapter challenges the San Jose State
student chapter to make that list.
The recipient for this year’s scholarship is a student from
the University of San Francisco, Felicia Doubek, who is a double major at
McLaren School of Business. She will be
honored at this year’s event at the Hotel Nikko on October 10, 2013. For more information regarding the event,
please contact John Love of the Hotel Restaurant Foundation, at the following
e-mail address, johnclove@att.net. Or check out the scholarship website.
Chris Begley of the Hotel Nikko, Dr. Huang of San
Jose State, and I will represent our chapter at the Annual Convention in
Dallas, Texas, in October. The
conference will be held at the Hilton Anatole in Downtown Dallas. Leadership will be on October 15 and the annual
conference starts on October 17. For
more information, check out www.hftp.org. This year, I will be one of three official
bloggers for the association at the conference.
Follow me on Twitter @HFTPSanFranTony for the latest tweets. Or come and join us at the Big D.
October 24 will be our next meeting. Time, place, and topic, will be determined in
the coming week. Please share any
comments with me to this blog.
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