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Who is Eckerd College?. Who is the Eckerd community?. • Students • Faculty • Staff • Parents • Grandparents • Alumni • Friends • Corporations/Foundations • People who take a look • Elected officials • Community with whom we work/buy/sell
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Who is the Eckerd community? • Students • Faculty • Staff • Parents • Grandparents • Alumni • Friends • Corporations/Foundations • People who take a look • Elected officials • Community with whom we work/buy/sell • Volunteers • Athletic fans • Theater and film patrons • Art and music lovers • ASPEC • Senior College • Elderhostel • LDI participants • Spring and Summer campers • ECSAR savees
What are our values? • Residential • Environmental • Global • Spiritual • Personal
What are our goals? • To be among the best liberal arts colleges in the nation • To be the best place to work in Florida • Size • Programs • Facilities • Quality
What are our goals? • To be the best place to work in Florida Fair salaries Excellent, affordable health care and other benefits Work schedules, time off Great parking Attractive environment Sense of mission, purpose Collegial environment
What are our key challenges? • Salaries • Maintenance • Managing growth • Hurricanes • Retention
What’s the key to retention? • Improved grounds, facilities, housekeeping, food service • Improved student life programs • Personal attention SERVICE!
What are the keys to good service? • Attitude “Hire the smile; train the service” • Thinking like a customer • Treating the customer like you want to be treated • Being flexible“Bend the rules to fit the customer”
What are the keys to good service? • Looking for better service opportunities “Measure both feet!” • FeedbackTake responsibility for BEING Eckerd College
Service Goal To make Eckerd College the most student-centered college in America…
How to get there …each of us must BE Eckerd College