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Gym Front Desk Training Checklist
The checklist (5 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Check-in / Membership station in the Gym / Fitness studio starter set, filed under Desk, and every item here is editable.
- 1Greeted every member by name or with a warm welcome
- 2Checked members in and flagged expired waiversMust pass
- 3Explained membership options accurately
- 4Confirmed new visitors completed a waiver before enteringCritical
- 5Kept the desk tidy and the queue moving
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What usually goes wrong
Confirming a waiver before anyone enters is the critical item and the only one on this list with a legal consequence. It is also the easiest to wave through, because the person standing in front of you is friendly and in a hurry.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Confirmed new visitors completed a waiver before entering
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this station: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Check-in / Membership specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.
That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.
Stations that pair with this one
These are the stations someone on this one most often covers alongside it, which makes them the sensible second checklist to train.
Common questions
What should a new front desk hire be signed off on first?
The waiver check and the check-in flow, before anything to do with sales. Membership conversations can be learned gradually with someone nearby; letting an unwaivered visitor onto the floor cannot be undone afterwards.
What should be on a gym front desk checklist?
The 5 items above cover it: greeted every member by name or with a warm welcome, checked members in and flagged expired waivers, explained membership options accurately, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.
Which items should count as critical?
On this station, one item is marked critical: confirmed new visitors completed a waiver before entering. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Check-in / Membership checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.
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