Have You Updated Your Profile Yet?
As a follow up to the article I shared about Recruiting & Retaining Talent for your facility, as well as some current national PGA demographics and compensation trends across Sections and the West, I would like to get straight to the point: Have you updated your compensation profile yet? (If not, why not? No, seriously, why not?)
It’s been three “crazy busy seasons” since the pandemic started in our game and business. We’ve seen golf professionals having great success, seeing wins in participation for events, merchandising sales growth and more…but we’ve also seen some feeling like they’re “burning out” (vs just feeling tired and ready for the aerification process to begin.)
At the same time, we’ve seen the labor market go very soft, with multiple generations of our PGA professionals (e.g. Gen-Z, Millennials, Gen-X, etc.) looking for work-life balance, if not demanding it.
Again, I know you’ve been very busy…sometimes to an extreme with the feeling of just getting by. You have likely been “buried by the urgent, and thus unable to focus on the important”. With that in context, and the hope that you’ll be able to focus on what is important (for you professionally, for your staff, etc.), I would like to share some resources with you. Consider these ideas and takeaways so you can have the most effective “off-season” possible and be better prepared for success next season.
Resources & Concepts
Focusing Your Efforts to be Most Effective
Check out my August 2021 article on the “Locus of Control”
Highlights include:
- Getting a comp report you can use
- Becoming (even) more valuable to your employer
Work-Life Balance
Check out this TEDx talk by Dan Thurmon on “Off/Balance On Purpose”
In this video, Dan Thurmon manages to juggle around the idea of work-life balance, and instead pushes a more realistic, pragmatic concept to intentionally leaning into being “off balance, on purpose.” Not only is the topic engaging, Dan is very interesting in his stylistic speaking while using juggling and acrobatic skills to make his point. After you watch this, I hope it resonates with you to the point where you find ways to:
- Incorporate it into your own professional-personal life
- Integrate it into the way your “team balance” is managed as a team
- Integrate it into your personal and family life in a way that helps you show the value you place on these “highest purpose/highest value” relationships
Understanding the Costs of Recruiting & Retaining Talent
Check out my July 2022 article entitled “More Recruiting & Retaining Talent”
Great resource for GM’s and those who are trying to “educate upwards!” In it, there are recent and relevant charts on the following:
- The real Cost of Living “In the West” including what the “living wage” means (and doesn’t mean)
- The tangible “cost of living” differences between Sections/markets as of 2021
- Assistant jobs posted (both by salary and hourly) within the West Region and PNW
I hope that I’ve made my point, but just in case, I’ll state it again: Have you updated your compensation profile yet? (And, if not, why not?)
If you have any questions about how to apply or utilize these resources above, or if you have any other concepts that you would like to share with me and others, please feel free to reach out to me soon.
Monte Koch, PGA Certified Professional, CEIP
PGA Career Consultant | PGA of America Career Services
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Business, Operations & Career Coach in the Pacific NW and Rocky Mountain PGA Sections
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