Motivational Monday November 18, 2019

Motivational Monday

Joke of the Week:

Why did the police arrest the turkey?

They suspected fowl play.

Safety:

Prevent Common Kitchen Injuries

With the proper safety rules in place, many of the most common on-the-job injuries can be avoided.

Lacerations and Punctures

With knives, slicers, and the occasional broken glass, employees are at risk for cuts constantly. To prevent these injuries, your staff members should transport knives carefully around your kitchen space and pay attention to their cutting task, so they don’t injure themselves or others. You can also provide your employees with cut resistant gloves for extra precaution. Broken glass should always be handled with a broom and protective gloves.

Burns

Your employees can easily get burned, even without a serious kitchen fire. Staff members should always wear oven mitts or use pot holders to handle heated cookware.

Sprains and Strains

Your busy kitchen can get crowded during meal services. Even if space is at a premium, it is important keep commonly used items in easy-to-reach places. Repeated bending and twisting is not good for joints, so try to keep many of your tools at arm’s length or close to it. Additionally, you should educate your employees on safe lifting techniques to avoid back injury when moving equipment or bulk ingredients.

Spills can also put your staff members and customers at risk for injury. Make sure that all spills are attended to as soon as possible and clearly mark wet floors in all areas of your establishment.

Eye Injury

During cooking or cleaning, staff members’ eyes are vulnerable to splashes of grease, sanitizing chemicals, and ingredients. Employees should exercise caution when cleaning a workspace or front-of-house areas and wear protective safety glasses when ware-washing or cleaning up broken glass.

HR Best Practice:

Career Learning Plan

To start your career or personal learning plan, it is important to begin by recognizing your current skills. A personal SWOT analysis can be very helpful in assessing your strengths and weaknesses. It can also help you to identify any opportunities and possible threats that might be on the horizon.

You will need to assess:

Your current skills. Are they adequate for your present role? Do they align adequately with your team or organization’s priorities, mission, and vision? It may be useful to revisit your job description to clarify your key responsibilities. What are the targets that you’ve agreed with your manager? Ask yourself, honestly, what you could you be doing better?

Your past skills. This may sound counter-intuitive but look back, too. Are there skills you have used in the past that could help you now? Are those skills a bit rusty, or are your working practices out of date?

Your future skills. What skills or knowledge gaps do you need to bridge? Think about how you compare with your peers in terms of knowledge, skills, experience, attitude, and behavior. What does your team need that you would like to offer? Put yourself into the shoes of a customer, colleague, or supplier. What would he or she want you to know, or to be able to do?

Once you have carried out a thorough self-audit and identified your goals for growth, it’s time to work out how to reach them. This is where a personal learning plan can help.

What you prioritize within your plan will vary depending on your needs and aspirations. Ideally, a plan should work to a SMART model (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound), to help you to develop the motivation you need to achieve them.

When you evaluate the skills that you need to make progress in your career, remember to include important – but quite general – career skills, such as team management and communication, as well as others that are directly related to Centerplate or your position.

Recipe of the Week:

Hot Buttered Rum

2 teaspoons butter, melted

1 tablespoon brown sugar

2 teaspoons powdered sugar

1.5 oz dark rum

1 cup hot whole milk

Pinch of ground cinnamon

Pinch of ground nutmeg

INSTRUCTIONS

In a coffee mug, stir butter, brown sugar and powdered sugar until combined.

Add hot milk, rum, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir well to combine.  Garnish with cinnamon stick.

Stay Motivated:

Have a fantastic week!

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