Presidential Perspective by Brandon Schindele, Superintendent Edina Country Club
performance review process and as part of that process I added a questionnaire about our operation and tried to dive into things that my team: likes, dislikes, what we should do more of, do less of, etc. I told them that there were no right or wrong answers and that I just wanted everyone to be as candid as possible and not worry about hurting anyone’s feelings. We will now come back as a group and talk about these things and see how we can improve as a team even if that means the conversation gets a little out of the comfort zone for all of us. The end goal is to be better and more efficient as a team and provide a better product for the membership here at Edina Country Club. Spending the time to do some “preventative maintenance” How many of you, however, with our staff members is have taken the opportunity to spend some quality time discussing something that I think most of us just do not do enough because we your operations with your full might be afraid of making waves or time staff members? I recently creating uncomfortable situations. finished up our annual employee Last month I had stated that, “Spring is on the doorstep!!! Hopefully by the time this issue of Hole Notes reaches your computer, tablet, phone, or any device of your choosing the majority of us will be venturing out onto the golf course to assess our turf conditions and will be making preparations for opening the courses throughout the state.” Well, let’s try that again and see if we can’t make spring happen. I am sure that everyone has put a fresh coat of paint on everything that they possibly can and swept and dusted every corner of their shops at least twice.
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