Hey, restaurant managers.
Today, I'm going to give you three tips on how you can advance quickly
to general manager.
Hey, everybody. Ryan Gromfin in here – author, speaker, chef,
restaurateur, and founder of the TheRestaurantBoss.com,
as well as ClickBacon, and ScaleMyRestaurant.com
So, today is all about you, restaurant managers.
All of you restaurant managers out there and aspiring
restaurant managers out there,
I know that one day you're going to want to advance
from assistant manager to restaurant manager,
to general manager, or whatever the position may be called,
but I really want to make this as simple as possible.
I think we all know the obvious things.
A lot of hard work, it's going to take a few years
5-10 years depending on what type of restaurant or a hotel
you're working in, but the three tips I want to give you today are
very important, and I think when you hear them, they're going to be obvious
but they're not as obvious as work hard, show up on time.
I think these are going to be really,
really valuable for you.
So again, restaurant managers looking to advance your career
to general manager and maybe even owner one day.
So, here you go -
so my first tip is -
you must be able to quickly earn the respect
of your team.
You must be able to build a team.
Now obviously, right? Again, I said some of these are going to be pretty obvious,
but let's talk about that word respect for a moment here.
Respect is not about
I will never ask anyone to do a job that I've never done myself.
That is not what respect is about.
I mean sure, you got to be willing to work hard,
you got to be willing to get in it with your team,
but that is not what respect is.
I'm going to make this as simple as possible for you.
I have some other videos about respect
that we'll put a link to up here in the card,
but for right now as simple as possible,
respect is about you
helping them achieve their goals.
Most restaurant managers don't even know what the goals of their team
members are,
they don't know what their team members.
And to be honest, if your team members aren't telling you what they want
and even when you ask, they don't know,
then step in and help them figure out what it is that they want,
then help them achieve their goals.
You're either in their way or you're on their team.
Get on their team and help them instead of being in their way.
So number one - you've got to have the respect of your team.
Otherwise, there's never going to be the growth that you need.
Number two - you have to be able to hold your team accountable.
Now, I know this is sometimes a challenge for people because here,
on one hand, they're thinking,
I need the respect of my team and my team is going to like
me in and respect me if I'm nice to them and if I accept their
excuses and the reasons why they didn't do the things they said they're going to do.
I can't be mean; I need their respect.
Holding a team accountable and earning their respect are two completely different things.
The people that you likely respect the most in this world
are people that have held you accountable,
they're people that have helped you reach your goals,
they are people that have held higher standards
for you than you even hold for yourself.
When we talk about accountability, we talk about being strict, not mean.
I don't ever want you to be mean, I don't want you to be rude,
I don't want you to belittle any staff members,
I don't ever want you to say a bad thing about your staff,
but that has nothing to do with being strict.
So, I want you to think being strict, not mean,
but you must hold your team accountable,
which leads to number three is - you have to be able to complete projects.
At the end of the day, being a manager is about getting things
done day by day, task by task.
Sorry, day by day, task by task.
My words, I don't know what happened there.
You have to be able to complete projects or at least
facilitate the completion of a project.
You have to make sure that your team is doing the things they say they're going to do.
You have to make sure that you're doing the things that you say you're going to do.
If you are not completing the projects that are assigned to you,
no one is ever going to give you more responsibility.
So, really quick here, let's recap -
number one - you've got to earn the respect of your team
and you got to earn it quickly if you want to grow fast.
Number two - you still got to be able to hold that team accountable,
which leads to number three which is,
you have to be able to complete projects
and complete them on time.
I know these might seem a little obvious or maybe less obvious,
or you might have been looking for something totally different than this,
but I'm telling you right now if you're able to do these three things,
the other stuff is going to be easy for you.
You're going to advance from wherever you are right now to
general manager faster than you think.
Thank you and have a wonderful week. I look
forward to bringing you another video
just like this next week. Bye-Bye
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