The First Steps to a Great Green program.

You are finally moving forward with the program to make your hotel “green” and your team has plenty of energy and ideas. So – where do you start?
Here are three things that may help…

1. Commit. The boss has signed off on the program and he or she has given you the "go ahead" -see the last posting. Nevertheless it is important that you formalize the commitment - both with the boss and the people in your organization.

2. Get a baseline. This is an important step and can be overlooked in the early stages when ideas are being thrown around and energy is high but it is very important. Remember - this baseline will be the point from which all future improvements will be measured !

3. Capture all the great ideas for review and - where possible – implementation. This is an exciting time in the life of your team and you should make sure the creativity of these first few weeks is not lost during the hard work of implementing your program.

These three steps are critical in their own way to the success of your program and we will look at them each in more detail in future posts.