Casino Hosts have a responsibility to develop working relationships with their players. Both to identify players who would benefit from a Host’s service in addition to assisting an upset guest and working to resolve the issue. All of these require effective communication to be successful.
Another way to look at this issue is imagine that you move to a new town or city. You don’t know many people and need to start building a local network of relationships. You are introduced to new faces and
must find commonalities to get to know them. This effectively describes a Host, except they have to do this with literally hundreds of new people.
Learning about a person is simple: ask questions and remember responses. Share stories, discuss common interests and listening to learn allows the Host to build a relationship that can benefit everyone. The key is to capture what the Host learns to create a starting point for the next client encounter.
Legendary Hosts are those that are able to remember little details from past conversations and bring those details up in future conversations. They remember a birthday, spouse’s names, a special event, or their favorite hobby. The
Organizations that use the
By Bryan Schmidt, Arctic IT Business Applications Consulting Manager, [email protected].