Enhancing Estate Operations Through Year-End Reviews
Annual performance reviews serve as a strategic tool, offering a recap of the past year’s accomplishments, challenges, and opportunities for growth.
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Workforce Planning and Scheduling
Unreasonable Hospitality
The Fricks Collect: An American Family and the Evolution of Taste in the Gilded Age
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Supportive Accountability: How to Inspire People and Improve Performance
Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing
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Books
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Wine A Tasting Course: From Grape to Glass
Types Of Wine Glasses
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (American Alliance of Museums)
The Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collection (Winterthur Decorative Arts Series)
The Visual Handbook of Building and Remodeling
The Simple Art of Napkin Folding
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Collections
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Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (American Alliance of Museums)
The Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collection (Winterthur Decorative Arts Series)
For the Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library
Collection Care: An Illustrated Handbook for the Care and Handling of Cultural Objects
Caring for Your Cherished Objects: The Winterthur Guide
Basic Condition Reporting: A Handbook, 5th Edition
Housekeeping
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The Pocket Butler's Guide to Good Housekeeping: Expert Advice on Cleaning, Laundry and Home Maintenance
The Folding Book
Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook
Laundry: The Home Comforts Book of Caring for Clothes and Linens
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
Field Guide to Stains
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Giving Thanks to Household Staff
The act of holiday gift-giving to household staff is not merely a customary gesture but a nuanced practice requiring careful consideration. A clear understanding of industry standards for cash gifts combined with meaningful, personalized gestures let your staff know they are seen and appreciated.
Pennyworth Projects
Pennyworth Projects is a unique agency that specializes in professional and household support roles, including Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants, Family Assistants, Chiefs of Staff, Coordinators, and more.
Beyond Job Skills and Experience: Interview for Soft Skills
Estate Managers are tasked with a unique responsibility not only to oversee the daily operations of an estate, but to build a staff that works well together and fits into the culture of the home. When it comes to hiring it’s essential to look beyond traditional skills and experience.
Primary Roles in Estate Management
There are 4 primary estate management roles: Property Manager, House Manager, Estate Manager and Director of Properties. We identified the skills, education, experience, and expectations of each role, as well as the process for entry and progression.
How To Manage The Estate Ecosystem
Each estate is an ecosystem unto itself – with its own unique processes, rhythms, and culture. And, like any estate ecosystem, each has a cast of characters with particular skill sets who must learn to work together
The Great Debate: Hybrid Roles
Our panel discusses the pros and cons of hybrid roles, which roles can / shouldn’t be combined and if the roles are sustainable, among other points.
Presenting Candidates to Your Principal
After a successful round of interviews, have you wondered how to present candidates to your principal without overwhelming them with a file of résumés, references, and recommendations? I’ve found that writing a brief of candidate sketches is the first step. PRO CONTENT
Hiring The Perfect Candidate
As a private service placement agency, it is our job to source the proverbial “perfect candidate.” The question here is where does the “perfect candidate” come from?
Aunt Ann’s In-House Staffing Becomes the Network’s 1st Benefactor Member
We’re excited to announce that Aunt Ann’s In-House Staffing has become the Estate Management Network’s first Benefactor Member! By joining at this level, Aunt Ann’s will be supporting our content…
A Uniformed Staff
I am excited today to talk with you about uniforms, insignias, and pride… wearing a matching uniform and sporting a name tag with a particular position identified, makes all the difference in the pride and effort expended by staff.
Interchangeable Roles; “That’s a Yes for me”
With the idea that some roles are interchangeable and have quite the same functions. They may look like a hybrid role. They are not