Motivation, Profitability, and Productivity

“In cooking, as in almost all other arts, theory is worthless without practice, and even someone who knows all the culinary tricks by heart will be unable to prepare a good stew if they have never put on an apron. Cooking involves so many disappointments, concerns, and even dangers that those who practice it should be honored,” wrote Grimod de la Reynière, one of the first food journalists in history, in his Host’s Manual.
Undoubtedly, cooking requires a lot of dedication and sacrifice, motivation and commitment, effort and involvement, sensitivity and feeling, enthusiasm and emotion, vocation and connection, communication and coordination. But it also provides those who engage in it with satisfaction, self-esteem, conviction, security, and group belonging. Just as in "all other arts," one of them being human capital management in companies.
Human capital management in companies is a variable that can produce profits or losses. It doesn't matter if it's a company related to hospitality and catering or belongs to another sector. In all of them, as entrepreneurs or external consultants, we must achieve maximum levels of "physical and mental performance" and "team morale."
All team members are equally important and necessary. Everyone wants to do their job well. At the very least, we spend a third of our day at the company, with the "work family," with whom many people share more hours than with their own family. The atmosphere created in the workplace will determine the team's performance and productivity.
At Consulting Slow&Low, we believe in creating workspaces where people feel motivated and excited to come to work. Where they are demanded with respect and courtesy, but their skills and competencies are valued. A professional environment must be created. Tasks are challenges, and challenges awaken interest, keep us away from mental boredom, increase our motivation, and focus our attention, improving confidence and security in our abilities to excel.
Highly motivated teams are more resourceful, effective, and efficient, which translates into profitability for the company. A high staff turnover rate is a negative indicator of personnel resource management, leading to increased costs for hiring, leaving, and training periods. In contrast, a high productivity value per employee, meaning the monetary return of this cost transferred to sales, is a positive indicator to consider in human team management, improving the efficiency of the necessary resources used to achieve a certain production level.
In cooking and catering services, there are a high number of emotional components in the interaction with the client, aiming to convey a sense of content, space, and atmosphere that turns into an experience of sensations and emotions. Here, the team's moods are very important to convey those levels of joy and enthusiasm in their daily performance, because truly "In this job, they are happy."
Undoubtedly, cooking requires a lot of dedication and sacrifice, motivation and commitment, effort and involvement, sensitivity and feeling, enthusiasm and emotion, vocation and connection, communication and coordination. But it also provides those who engage in it with satisfaction, self-esteem, conviction, security, and group belonging. Just as in "all other arts," one of them being human capital management in companies.
Human capital management in companies is a variable that can produce profits or losses. It doesn't matter if it's a company related to hospitality and catering or belongs to another sector. In all of them, as entrepreneurs or external consultants, we must achieve maximum levels of "physical and mental performance" and "team morale."
All team members are equally important and necessary. Everyone wants to do their job well. At the very least, we spend a third of our day at the company, with the "work family," with whom many people share more hours than with their own family. The atmosphere created in the workplace will determine the team's performance and productivity.
At Consulting Slow&Low, we believe in creating workspaces where people feel motivated and excited to come to work. Where they are demanded with respect and courtesy, but their skills and competencies are valued. A professional environment must be created. Tasks are challenges, and challenges awaken interest, keep us away from mental boredom, increase our motivation, and focus our attention, improving confidence and security in our abilities to excel.
Highly motivated teams are more resourceful, effective, and efficient, which translates into profitability for the company. A high staff turnover rate is a negative indicator of personnel resource management, leading to increased costs for hiring, leaving, and training periods. In contrast, a high productivity value per employee, meaning the monetary return of this cost transferred to sales, is a positive indicator to consider in human team management, improving the efficiency of the necessary resources used to achieve a certain production level.
In cooking and catering services, there are a high number of emotional components in the interaction with the client, aiming to convey a sense of content, space, and atmosphere that turns into an experience of sensations and emotions. Here, the team's moods are very important to convey those levels of joy and enthusiasm in their daily performance, because truly "In this job, they are happy."