Idea 159 of 500. Cluster 7: The infrastructure that makes the rest possible
Hospitality training schools
The mechanism, from the book
The tiny business pathway. A rural woman with an exceptional product should not need photography, English copy, packaging design and a distributor before the world can find her.
Every idea in cluster 7 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Speak to the managers of five hotels and guesthouses near you about which skills their new staff lack most, and what they would pay for someone who arrived trained. Run a free 2 week pilot course for 6 young people on the top two skills. Then offer the graduates to those managers for trial shifts. A manager who hires one and asks for more is your first paying client.
- Who pays first
- A hotel or guesthouse manager who loses money training new staff and would pay for recruits who arrive ready.
- What leaves today
- Trained hospitality workers leave for jobs abroad; a school keeps the skill, and the wages it earns, working on the island.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. SeventeenOne Building
The dozen small things that turn a product into money that stays
More from cluster 7
Idea 159 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.