Little Harbor Club’s Secrets to Seasonal Staffing Success
Little Harbor Club in Michigan operates for 13 weeks each summer, focusing on community, strong recruiting, and a positive staff culture, with leadership from Jed Avery emphasizing quick training, high service standards, and staff retention through incentives and development.
Are Your Members Ready to Approve Your Facility Project?
Rising costs and heightened scrutiny make capital project approval difficult, but conducting early, well-designed opinion surveys can identify member support, funding readiness, and priorities, thereby increasing the likelihood of approval and ensuring projects meet member needs.
Are Your New Members Ready to be Members?
An effective orientation program builds a strong club culture, enhances member satisfaction, and supports staff morale by clearly communicating expectations through structured, personalized, and ongoing activities involving training, mentorship, and social engagement.
Micromanagement in Private Clubs: A Problem We Made Ourselves
Private clubs often experience micromanagement due to unclear roles, weak leadership, and lack of strategic focus, which can be addressed by establishing proactive governance practices, clarifying titles, and providing ongoing training for leaders.
Prioritizing Aquatics in Your Club’s Master Plan
Aquatics is now a essential, multi-generational element in private clubs that improves member experience through strategic design and integration, and should be included in the overall master plan for long-term success.
Yacht Clubs Aren’t “Sinking”
Golf clubs have benefited from golf’s surge in popularity; boating, by contrast, still faces higher costs and steeper learning curves. The task ahead is to modernize, stay relevant, and expand participation—while continuing to celebrate what makes these institutions uniquely yacht clubs.
What’s the Best Way to Design a Master Plan?
Master planning is a strategic process that aligns conflicting goals, uncovers opportunities, and reimagines spaces to create cohesive and resilient environments, especially when progress stalls or priorities clash.
Missouri Athletic Club: The City Club Success Story of the Year
After more than 120 years, the MAC remains the only full-service club serving men, women and families in the St. Louis area, having extended its reach to stretch beyond the city of St. Louis and now include suburban counties including Jefferson and St. Charles, as well as counties in southern Illinois.
New Clubhouse Brings New Life to Wilderness Country Club
Wilderness Country Club was founded in 1974, on land that had originally been developed 30 years earlier as a ranch and then had a golf course built on it in 1975. The club holds the distinction of being the first gated golf course community in Naples, Fla.—but as it approached the 2020 decade that would…
“Dos and Don’ts” for Successful Club Improvements
As the new year gets into full swing, I thought it might be helpful to provide some quick “dos and don’ts,” based on our experience at McMahon helping clubs with their facility planning, that should be kept in mind for capital-improvement projects.