Curriculum
The Beverly Clark Hospitality Training Program for Catering Professionals provides three different options for training
» Live Training, Custom Programs and Seminars
» On-property, Personal Consultation
» The online Beverly Clark Certified Wedding Professional Program
Live Training, Custom Programs and Seminars
The Hospitality Training Program was created to provide catering professionals with the tools they need to meet the challenges they face and assist them in finding solutions with not only the wedding market, but all aspects of their business, including corporate markets, social catering, sporting events such as golf and tennis tournaments and charitable events. Live training also focuses on global tools needed to succeed in reaching your catering goals such as creating the perfect marketing plan for your property, developing your niche market and determining your competitive advantage through the creation of a competitive analysis.
This option allows the client to customize a program focused on achieving your specific company and department goals. Once the program content is agreed upon, a professional Beverly Clark Trainer will present the seminar "live" to your selected group of employees. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- A working knowledge of today's brides and grooms and their expectations
- The importance of knowing your competition and what gives you a competitive advantage
- How to create an event-friendly environment
- Creating a consistent sales environment between all sales people
- Making the most out of your communication with your clients
- Ways to increase your prospecting and closing ratios
- Why brides choose to have a "destination" wedding and your role in creating a special experience
- Event trends and "upselling" techniques
- The importance of inter-department communication and teamwork
- How to generate immediate revenue in the next thirty days
- Wine education and upselling
- How to create and execute an effective marketing plan
- Effective ways to increase golf tournament business and per event revenue
On-Property, Personal Consultation
This option puts help directly in your office, as one-on-one, we explore ways to make your operation more effective, successful and producing the optimum amount of revenue. We will cover some of the above topics as well as specific challenges you face on a daily basis.
Online Beverly Clark Certified Wedding Professional Program
Keeping up with the latest bridal trends, knowing how to handle the diverse cultures that often are part of today's wedding events, all while trying to find new ways to increase your business can be daunting. In creating the Beverly Clark Certified Wedding Professional Training and Certification Program, Beverly utilizes her extensive background in wedding planning that has helped millions of brides plan their perfect day through her best-selling wedding books. This program has become a must for any catering professional looking to expand their share of the $120 billion wedding market.
Online Training Program Description
The interactive, online, Beverly Clark Certified Wedding Professional Program offers nineteen lessons. Each lesson concludes with a self-correcting, multiple choice quiz, which must be concluded before moving on to the next lesson. Online support is included and upon successful completion, you are presented with a certificate designating you as a iBeverly Clark Certified Wedding Professional. You are also provided with the "Beverly Clark Certified Wedding Professional on Staff" logo to use on your website and in marketing materials.
Course Outline
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More online courses to come.
Upon successful completion of the program, which includes quizzes, homework assignments and the final exam, all graduates will receive Beverly Clark Hospitality Training Certification, a prestigious honor recognized by industry professionals and clients all over the United States. In addition to a formal certificate, graduates will also have the right to use the Beverly Clark Hospitality Training Certification logo on all your cards and stationery.
What They're Saying...
"Our special events team took the Beverly Clark Hospitality Training Program, and the on-line course is an amazing resource to brush up on details of planning and executing fabulous events and keeping attention to detail at the highest level. Beyond helping us to better serve our clients, it also provided tips on how we might improve ourselves as a venue."Firestone Family Estates, Special Events
Los Olivos, CA
"The Beverly Clark Hospitality Training Program is great and gave me many excellent ideas that I can put to use immediately. I think it would be of great value to any Director of Catering, catering manager and sales staff to help them learn more about increasing their wedding business"
Hyatt Regency Long Beach, CA
"We asked Beverly Clark Enterprises to create a custom Destination Wedding Training program for us to energize our wedding and sales staff as we introduced some new Destination Wedding Packages. Lynne LaFond DeLuca worked closely with us, designed a program that helped both our sales and operations people understand how to work with today's brides, increase their sales and work as a team. Not only did the trainings work, everyone loved them! Thank you, Lynne and Beverly Clark!"
Director of Brand Management, Paradisus Resorts
The Sol Group Corporation
Sol Melia Hotels and Resorts
