Hello MLC Instructors!
Welcome to the first weekend of February 2020! Let’s do this – Weekend Weather Outlook, Toyota Saturday Night Learn to Ski & Snowboard, Sunday Night Snowboard Instructors Needed, Monday Help Needed, Instructor Check-in Survey, Dayforce Teaching Hour Report, Pig Tales and Guest Comments – please read on …
Weekend Weather Outlook
The weather is steadily been improving today with the freezing levels dropping. Today was a “3 glove day” (if you know what that means), but Thursday was one of the first bluebird days of the season with Heather Canyon open! And this weekend is looking very favorable for SNOW! See below! Weather link: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-121.6688576341901&lat=45.34194381514135#.XjSqY2hKiUl
Toyota Saturday Night
We are looking fairly well staffed for our second Toyota Night of the season! If you are available to help out on Saturday night (i.e. you’re not already scheduled), we’d love to have you check in on Saturday afternoon to see if we need extra help. At this time we have 83 skiers and 71 snowboarders signed up to learn to ski or snowboard tomorrow! If you teach a Toyota lesson you will receive a $5 off voucher good in the Alpenstube or Schuss – as do the guests who participate in the this special Saturday night offering – for some “apres ski” time.
Sunday Night Snowboard Instructors
Our full time and some part time instructors who were working on Sunday nights have either been broken, taken leave or won the lottery. That said, we need 4 snowboard coaches to add to the roster this Sunday night and the remaining Sunday nights this season – there are only 6 Sunday nights left this season. If you can teach snowboard lessons and can add Sunday nights please “reply all” to this email and we’ll add you to that shift – thank you!
Monday Hood River Schools are out – need extra help
With the weekend and Monday weather looking almost bluebird, we are going to need extra help on Monday 2/3. If you can add this day to your schedule, or reschedule a day to have Monday 2/3 take its place, that would be very helpful. Please “reply all” to this email if you can come on Monday! If this is NOT a regularly schedule day you will earn a lift ticket for a friend or family member for adding this day to your schedule.
Instructor Check In Survey
Like the company check in survey, as the leadership team of the Meadows Learning Center we’d like to know how you’re doing. It’s about mid-season now, and many of our instructors are approaching their “half way” point or beyond towards their teaching hour commitments. Please share with us what’s going well, where you might need some help and what we can do to make your instructor life better. Click the link or survey emoji below. Link: https://mhm.snowproportal.com/current-staff/check-in-survey
Dayforce Teaching Hour Report
There is a new menu item available in the DESKTOP (not App) version of Dayforce. Login on a desktop computer either at home or here at the mountain, then open up the Reporting menu (on the left), then click on Reports. There you will see a report called, “MLC Teaching Hours Summary – Instructor View”. Single click to select the report (it will highlight in a blue shade) then either use the Preview (will display results on screen) or the Run button (which will generate file you can download) – both buttons are on the top of the screen. For step by step instructions on how to do this go here: https://mhm.snowproportal.com/training/day-force-help/teaching-hour-report
As a reminder, all our part time instructors have a minimum teaching our requirement. 18 shift = 45 teaching hours; 24 shift = 60 teaching hours; These requirements are outlined at the link below as well as the High Achiever Incentive Hours: https://mhm.snowproportal.com/current-staff/shift-teaching-hour-commitments where you can earn tickets for friends and family by adding more days / teaching hours to your season – thank you!
This Week’s Pig Tales
Phil Dusold fell on the ground in the Ballroom Carpet maze right in front of the maze control person (me)! He paid $5!! Claire Long Name double ejected when loading the Heather Lift, leaving both skis and a pole on the loading ramp but somehow managed to stay on the lift! Getting off the lift without skis (while in uniform) is kind of hard apparently. Claire owes $10.
This Week’s Guest Comments (via email)
Elizabeth: She was amazing and very friendly, make feel amazing and good with my skills.
Gene: Gene was so thorough and made sure that Grayson had fun so that he’ll want to come back. Grayson learned new skills, had a blast on the mountain, in the pre-play (building Minecraft with Gene) and drinking hot cocoa after the lesson. He cannot wait to come back.
Val: Was great that Nami could link up with Val again to make up for 1/11/2020 truncated lesson (all lifts shut down around noon d/t weather). Val is excellent in encouraging Nami to explore new terrain, techniques, and various novel approaches to riding. He really cares about his students & their development. We really hope Nami can do more sessions with Val down the road! He is a true asset to your snowboarding education program.
Brian B.: Brian was a great instructor. He asked questions to pinpoint what I was hoping to improve upon and he continued to modify his instruction throughout the lesson. Thank you, Brian!
Oriol and Brandon both had hand-written guest comment cards (and tips) this week. Be sure to stop by the middle office to get your tips and read your comment cards!
See you this weekend!
Tyler
