What Ceroc does badly....

[under par]

I have always thought this was a very strange use of resources. Let the taxi dancers dance as ladies and move the girls round slightly more quickly. That leaves nobody out for too long and the guys get the experience of leading someone proficient at dancing.

Great point... it is the leaders who need most help during the learning process the more time spent helping them, the quicker they will become competent dancers and will thus give many more ladies/followers better dances.

Another point about classes I'm sure I mentioned somewhere before is to try and get your more/most experienced leads placed on the line where the extra ladies join on from standing out...

the benefit is the more experienced leads should pick it up quicker and will therefore be able to assist those followers who haven't done the move yet better than a novice can, when they join the line.

[David Bailey]

I'd also like to have a "grading" to work towards....as much as I'm having fun, it'd be nice to achieve something with it!!

There are a couple of threads on this topic:

• Exam / grading system in Ceroc: good or bad idea?
• Dance levels: "Card" system?

I think it's fair to say that some people have strong opinions on that one - personally, on balance I think it could be a good idea, but the devil's in the details.

[David Bailey]

Another thing that Ceroc does badly, considering it's a national organisation, is the lack of consistency between different franchisee web sites.

It's quite surprising considering the emphasis on standardisation in other areas - it'd be nice if Ceroc HQ could supply a template and try to enforce some common usability conventions, for example.

And don't get me started on the different site names...

[frodo]

Another thing that Ceroc does badly, considering it's a national organisation, is the lack of consistency between different franchisee web sites.

It's quite surprising considering the emphasis on standardisation in other areas - it'd be nice if Ceroc HQ could supply a template and try to enforce some common usability conventions, for example...

Seems rather a backward step for some franchises to standardise on the Ceroc HQ or Ceroc London templates/usability though.

[David Bailey]

Seems rather a backward step for some franchises to standardise on the Ceroc HQ or Ceroc London templates/usability though.

Weeeellll.... Yeah, probably, but I'd prefer to see them all looking consistently mediocre than them all looking different - some OK, some awful - which is the case as the moment.

At least then improvements can be made globally, and users only have to get used to one set of design idiosyncrasies, rather than 20-odd sets.

[Lou]

Weeeellll.... Yeah, probably, but I'd prefer to see them all looking consistently mediocre than them all looking different - some OK, some awful - which is the case as the moment.

Weeeeeelll... personally, I have a soft spot for CerocScotland....