Who Should Attend?
Key Takeaways
Accredited by
American Hotel & Lodging Institute
Cours Outline
Day 1
Housekeeping Leadership & Standards Management
- Housekeeping executive role and responsibilities
- Housekeeping organization, job roles, and reporting lines
- Brand standards and SOP discipline (why and how to enforce)
- Cleanliness expectations and consistency control
- Room readiness and “first-time-right” mindset
- Communication routines: briefings, handovers, escalation paths
- Coordination with Front Office for room status accuracy
- Coordination with Engineering for defects and preventive fixes
- Handling VIP and special-request rooms (standards and preparation)
- Exercise: standards checklist review + daily control routine design
Day 2
Quality Assurance, Inspections & Guest Impact
- Quality management approach for housekeeping
- Inspection methods: what to check, how to score, how to follow-up
- Preventing recurring defects (root-cause thinking)
- Managing rework and reducing repeat guest complaints
- Public area standards and guest perception
- Turnover control during peak occupancy and high-pressure operations
- Lost & found process control and guest privacy basics
- Complaint handling for housekeeping-related issues
- Service recovery coordination with Front Office and Duty Managers
- Exercise: inspection scoring sheet + defect prevention action list
Day 3
Productivity, Staffing & Scheduling Control
- Staffing structure and shift coverage planning
- Workload planning: rooms, check-outs, stayovers, deep cleaning priorities
- Productivity basics (room attendant efficiency, realistic targets, quality balance)
- Scheduling principles and managing peak days
- Briefing and task assignment discipline
- Coaching and performance monitoring for attendants and supervisors
- Managing underperformance and corrective action basics
- Training basics for new hires (onboarding + skills checklist)
- Managing outsourced services (if applicable): standards and follow-up
- Exercise: workload plan + staffing schedule scenario
Day 4
Cost Control, Inventory, Safety & Continuous Improvement
- Cost drivers in housekeeping (labor, linen, chemicals, amenities, rework)
- Linen lifecycle basics and par level control
- Amenities and chemical usage discipline (waste prevention)
- Inventory control basics: storage, issuing, tracking
- Budget awareness and simple cost-control routines
- Safety, hygiene, and compliance essentials (staff + guest protection)
- Equipment care and preventive maintenance coordination
- KPIs for housekeeping performance (quality, productivity, guest feedback, defects)
- Building a 30–60 day housekeeping improvement plan
- Final case study: fix quality + productivity + cost issue in one scenario
- Wrap-up: review + readiness checklist
