{"id":15564,"date":"2022-10-25T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=15564"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:26:15","slug":"hospitality-rising","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/uk\/news\/2022\/oct\/hospitality-rising","title":{"rendered":"Hospitality Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lazyblock-text-full-width-hLB9j wp-block-lazyblock-text-full-width\"><section class=\"fullwidth text-center\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    \n    \n    <p style=\"text-align: left\">With the hospitality sector experiencing a chronic labour and skills shortage, the brightest and the best from across the advertising industry have been brought together to create the UK\u2019s biggest advertising recruitment campaign and save the nation\u2019s hotels, pubs, bars and restaurants. Working with Hospitality Rising, a collaborative movement within the hospitality industry, the crack team has been assembled by Julian Douglas as part of his IPA Presidential 10X THINK Agenda with the ambition of doubling the amount of people considering a job in the sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to UK Hospitality data, the sector is experiencing chronic worker shortages with over 400,000 hospitality vacancies. Coupled with this, research from KAM and Hospitality Rising has revealed that only one in five (21%) UK workers think hospitality is an appealing industry to work in, and hospitality has been increasingly viewed as a vocation with short term career progression as opposed to offering valuable long-term skills. An opinion that has only been exacerbated by the Pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The crack team consists of strategy delivered by Matt Waksman from Ogilvy who is famed for his IPA Grand Prix winning recruitment work for the British Army, creative direction from Creative and Innovation agency Forever Beta, and account handling and project management delivered by VCCP London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The campaign aims to reframe the sector by showing its target audience of younger workers that a career in hospitality is anything but boring. Instead, the campaign positions it as an exhilarating career path that is fun, energetic, that is all about collaboration and teamwork, their mission is to encourage people to \u201cRise Fast. Work Young.\u201d One that keeps people young at heart, and that gives them the freedom to break from a 9-5 job, as well as the ability to reach a higher position faster than an office job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Bringing this to life, the creative features animated hospitality workers: a chef, waiting staff, barista, mixologist, room attendant and member of management highlighted on colourful backgrounds in the midst of their trade, such as pouring a drink, on the way to make an artisan coffee and holding a notepad ready to take an order. With slogans such as, \u2018Sounds like some fun shift\u2019, \u2018Don\u2019t grow old for a living,\u2019 and \u2018Work on the frontline of fun\u2019. Showing that working in the industry is not only for the younger generation but keeps people young at heart, having the freedom to break from a 9-5 job as well as the ability to reach a higher position faster than an office job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Mark McCulloch, Founder of Hospitality Rising, said: <\/strong>\u201cThe pandemic has hit many industries particularly hard, and young people have also felt the effects. They are desperate to socialise and look towards the future. Hospitality is a great industry where people can come together. This campaign breaks the perception that hospitality is a stop gap and shows all the opportunities and career growth that can be possible. Partnering with such a star studded agency list has given us the ability to communicate on a large scale how rewarding it can be to be part of something collaborative and bigger than yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Julian Douglas, IPA President and International CEO of VCCP, added:<\/strong> \u201cAs part of my IPA presidential agenda, my Think 10X initiative sets out to show the world what advertising\u2019s brightest thinkers are capable of through creativity, ideas and their skills in engagement and persuasion. I am therefore delighted to have teamed up with Hospitality Rising to enable our expertise to be put to such vital use to save our hotels, pubs and restaurants by creating a recruitment campaign to reframe and rejuvenate the sector before it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Paulo Areas, Creative Chief Officer at Forever Beta, noted: <\/strong>\u201cHospitality is an exciting and unpredictable career. It offers flexibility, freedom and fast-paced career progression but mostly, it is not boring like sitting on a desk from 9 to 5, and that is the most appealing argument to enlist young people. Our campaign highlights the fun aspect of this friendship economy, and how it develops youngsters&#8217; people skills. We have delivered a fresh and colourful visual code that is not like any other recruitment campaign and that pushes back on the negative and focuses on the aspirational and positive aspect of working in hospitality. At the end, we want people to feel proud of working here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The campaign launches on October running across digital, cinema, OOH, Instagram and TikTok that will be handled by Antler, with Smithfield handling outdoor and other digital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To continue to fund the recruitment campaign, the initiative is seeking a pledge of \u00a310 per employee. 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VCCP London welcomes \\u003cstrong\\u003eNick Goff \\u003c\/strong\\u003eas Group Head of Business Development and \\u003cstrong\\u003eBecky Marsh\\u003c\/strong\\u003e as Head of New Business, VCCP Media.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003eIn their new roles, Goff and Marsh will report to the agency\u2019s Global Chief Growth Officer Stephanie Brimacombe, and both will start immediately. The new hires will support VCCP\u2019s reputation as the UK\u2019s most successful integrated communications agency following a streak of new business wins for VCCP which includes Virgin Media O2, Old El Paso, Dogs Trust, Thames Water, Sage, and LinkedIn. The pair will be tasked with driving VCCP\u2019s new business arm across its global network and attracting brands who share VCCP\u2019s challenger attitude.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003eAs Global Business Development Director, Goff brings with him more than a decade of agency new business experience, securing client wins across a wide range of sectors including FMCG, Drinks and Retail. Most recently, Goff held the Global Head of New Business role at The Marketing Store, whilst also leading Carlsberg's pioneering social content 'Newsroom' and heading up the D\\u0026amp;AD-winning adidas Glitch project. In his new business role he played a key role in helping colleagues drive their account growth ambitions, whilst also leading successful pitches for O2\u2019s loyalty platform Priority, H\\u0026amp;M, LNER and Vue. Goff also chairs the New Business Group for the Alliance of Independent Agencies. 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As a partner agency, VCCP London will be responsible for campaign development, amplification and the strategic direction of the UK's largest water and wastewater services company. The pitch was won after a competitive six-way pitch and work on the account will commence immediately with the first campaign set to go live in November.\u00a0\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eThames Water takes care of water for 15 million people across London and the Thames Valley and is dedicated to building a better future for their customers and the planet. VCCP London will partner with Thames Water to develop a long-term brand strategy, as well as delivering a series of campaigns to increase brand advocacy, change behaviours, and support major infrastructure projects.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eAlice Tow, Head of Brand and Marketing said:\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003e \\u0022VCCP London showed an excellent understanding of both the challenges and opportunities we face. 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We soon tired of staring at each other\u2019s faces (or bookshelves) in that odd, unnatural gameshow format and quickly opted instead for some charts to hide behind.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eSo be it. We had to find our own coping mechanisms back in those days. The problem, however, is that the chart habit seems to have stuck. And it's not as if we were an industry that was averse to slideware in the first place.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eDon't get me wrong. I know we need presentations, and presentations often need some slides. They provide a framework for what we have to say, as well as a record of our objectives, plans and recommendations. Depending on the subject matter, charts can often be essential, particularly for information-heavy topics such as media and market performance. But, as the information load gets lighter, so should the charts. If we're simply framing an argument or point of view do we need charts at all?\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eOne of the reasons I ask this question is from my experience of enforced slidelessness. Unless you're one of those people for whom technology always works perfectly (and I'm yet to meet one), the chances are that you will have experienced more than a few tech meltdowns. This inevitably means that the PowerPoint deck you were about to romp through remains stuck stubbornly on a distant, truculent server.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eIn these situations, whilst the IT technician wrestles with cables and remote controls, and we smile at each other awkwardly, I've taken to asking \\u0022should we have a go at starting without the slides?\\u0022. Sometimes the reaction to my question is one of quiet horror, as if an ancient protocol has been offended. On other occasions we give it a go freestyle and, lo and behold, ten minutes in and everyone has forgotten the wrestling technician. We're swimming without slides. There is even mild disappointment when the recalcitrant HDMI link is restored and we can boot up the slideware.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eThe meeting immediately becomes more formal and more regimented. There are also more interruptions. Perhaps because there is now something to interrupt. Or perhaps because of boredom. What has been gained in terms of structure has been lost in terms of fluency.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eSo we should aim for both. This means dramatically cutting down on the number of slides, and also on the number of words on the slides. If you ever find yourself reading out the fourth bullet point under the third subhead of the forty-third slide then I'm afraid you've got a bad case of chart\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eitis. You're reading, not presenting.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eWe're all guilty of this every so often due to expedience. It's the easiest way of downloading everything we want to say. Chopping words out, cutting down on charts, takes time and effort. Thus Mark Twain's famous proviso, \\u0022if I had more time I would have written a shorter letter'.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eBut lack of time is only part of the explanation. The other is lack of clarity. We end up festooned in charts and bullet points because we're not quite clear what we mean. And for this, there is only one solution. Before you go anywhere near PowerPoint, write what you mean down in normal sentences in normal English. Only then can you tell if it's clear and if it's meaningful. It's much easier to mangle a chart than it is to mangle prose.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eThe cure for chartitis, therefore, can be summed up in four simple steps. Step 1, start with a script (despite the urge to chartify). Step 2, ruthlessly edit your charts to highlight only the essential points you're making. Step 3, where possible, don't repeat on the chart what you say in your narrative - illustrate, visualise or dramatise your point instead.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eThe 4th step is perhaps the most daunting, which is to individualise what you present. Don't assume that your script needs slides at all. Slides can so quickly emphasise similarity rather than difference. Why not handwrite your points on boards? Or drag a Nobo chart along and draw your thoughts up as you go through them? - it worked for Simon Sinek.\u00a0 Devote some time to ensuring that any visual props are an \\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eextension \\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eof you, rather than the other way round.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eWe kid ourselves that presentations are viewed rationally. But they aren't. They are far more about empathy, trust, chemistry, body language. And, as such, though we may be reluctant to admit it, they're far more about the messenger than the message.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\\u003cp style=\\u0022text-align: left\\u0022\\u003e\\u003cspan style=\\u0022font-weight: 400\\u0022\\u003eSo step 4 is be yourself. The problem with this step, of course, is that it's a lifetime in the making.\\u003c\/span\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\",\"blockId\":\"Z1qNNew\",\"blockUniqueClass\":\"lazyblock-text-full-width-Z1qNNew\"} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:lazyblock\/quote-full-width {\"quote\":\"If we're simply framing an argument or a point of view do we need slides at all?\",\"quotee\":\"VCCP's Founding Partner and Chairman Charles Vallance \",\"blockId\":\"T1kvQ\",\"blockUniqueClass\":\"lazyblock-quote-full-width-T1kvQ\"} \/-->","post_title":"Charles Vallance: Lately, We've Let Things Slide","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"charles-vallance-lately-weve-let-things-slide","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-10 12:02:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-10 11:02:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=15499","menu_order":0,"post_type":"news","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}}],"hide_related_items":[],"visible_on_home_page":["1"],"websites_to_publish":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vccp.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}