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Front Desk Concierge Toolkit

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The Front Desk Concierge Tool Kit

✏️ Your lobby decides whether a family stays. Here’s the whole system — free.

In more than forty years of owning studios, the trap we watched owners fall into again and again is the same one: you become the highest-paid front desk worker in your own building.

You get pulled out of class to settle a costume complaint. A brand-new family calls and nobody is quite sure what to say. A parent who was half-thinking about a second class walks out having never been asked.

None of that is a staffing problem. It’s a scripting problem — and scripts are free.

This is the entire front desk system on ten printable pages. Your staff doesn’t need new software, a new hire, or a personality transplant. They need to know what to say before the door opens.

📦What’s inside

•      The Desk Card — All three core scripts on one page. Print it, laminate it, tape it to the desk.

•      The Anticipation Cheat Sheet — The ten questions your desk gets every single week, and the line that beats each one to the punch.

•      Five Phrases to Ban — Including the one your staff says every day that quietly costs you families.

•      The 15-Minute Staff Meeting — Minute by minute. Print it, put it on the table, run it top to bottom.

•      Six Role-Play Cards — Cut them out, keep them in a mug on the desk. Somebody draws one at every meeting and runs it cold.

•      The Phone Inquiry Script — The ninety seconds that decide whether a new family ever walks through your door. Most studios get this call wrong.

•      The 60-Second Lobby Scorecard — Ten honest questions. Score yourself today, score again in thirty days.

•      The 30-Day Tracker — Five numbers, four weeks. The last column tells you whether any of it worked.

🔧  How to use it

1. Print it. All ten pages. The Desk Card and the role-play cards are built to be cut out and used, not filed.

2. Give it fifteen minutes. Page 5 is a complete staff meeting agenda. You don’t have to prepare anything — just run it.

3. Re-score in thirty days. If the number on the scorecard hasn’t moved, the scripts were never said out loud. That’s the whole test.

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Ten pages. Print-ready. FREE for you to use however you want in your studio.

Front_Desk_Concierge_Tool_Kit.pdf

⭐Built by Steve Sirico and Angela D’Valda Sirico, co-founders of Dance Teacher Web and studio owners for more than forty years. This is the part we wish someone had handed us.

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Steve Sirico & Angela D'Valda Sirico

Steve Sirico & Angela D'Valda Sirico

Angela D'Valda Sirico and Steve Sirico are the Founders of Dance Teacher Web. They are the directors and owners the D'Valda and Sirico Dance and Music Centre in Fairfield CT for over 38 years. They also have been teaching, choreographing and producing shows for many years.. In 2007 they founded Dance Teacher Web now the #1 online resource for dance teachers and studio owners worldwide. They also produce the live event every summer for Dance Teacher Web. In 1979 they formed the Adagio team of D’Valda & Sirico after performing in shows and on television worldwide as individual dancers. Their performing credits include "Scala" Barcelona, Spain, Casino Estoril, Portugal, Theatre Royal, Oxford, England, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Hotel Tequendama, Bogota, Columbia, Teatro Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and as Guest Artists for Wayne Sleep's smash hit "Dash", Dominium Theatre, London. They were featured artists in Royal Command performances in Spain and had the privilege of performing for Princess Diana of Wales. D'Valda & Sirico's many television credits include "David Letterman", "Star Search", and "Tarde Para Todos" as well as variety shows in the U.S.A, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Portugal, Italy and Argentina. Their combination of explosive choreography and exciting partner work has been given rave reviews both nationally and internationally. Their choreography for the acclaimed "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" was commissioned by Boston Ballet II and performed by the company. Angela and Steve have owned and directed a very successful dance studio in Fairfield, Connecticut since 1987. Their students have received scholarships and contracts to American Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Nashville Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Hartford Ballet as well as the National tours of "Fosse", "Fame" and "We Will Rock You" and on Broadway in "Chorus Line". Angela and Steve have been on the faculty of Dance Educators of America’s Teacher Training program. Steve is the author of his Jazz Dance syllabus and together they authored their Partner syllabus both used for Teacher Training worldwide. Angela served as Chairperson for the tri state panel of the Royal Academy of Dancing and they have taught as guest faculty for Mt. Holyoke College, Michigan State University, The University of Arkansas, Yale University and Fairfield University. They teach Master Classes in Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical Jazz and Partner work all over the world including residencies in England, Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico. They have been the top presenting faculty for Dance Teacher Magazine's Summer Teacher’s Conference in NYC.

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