My own Century
A Century can be commissioned for a property, a family, a city, an organization or a place of your own. See an operating Century where one is publicly available, and a purpose-built prototype where it is not.
You bring the place, your people and the judgment about what belongs in it. We bring the research, the method, the seven categories, the grades, the training, the review and the objects made to standard. Then we read the Hundred against the Standard and grant the name.
What that costs and what it asks of you depends on what you are founding. Start where you actually are.
The Century System fixes the Standard.
The Founder makes the Century that
satisfies it.
What are you founding?
For hotels, resorts and destinations
For a general manager, a director of guest experience, or the owner of a group.
Your restaurants, bars, the pool, the beach desk and the operators you already work with are most of a Century already. This presentation shows how a Hotel Century turns them into a Hundred built around your property.
Explore Hotel Century benefitsPublic prototype
For the head of a household, for a place the family owns or the towns it came through.
A family's traditions already exist unwritten. This is the instrument that makes them inheritable. The Smith Family Century is a generic, limited public example built from three sentences.
See the Smith Family prototypeActual Century · Coming soon
For the keeper of a family name, and for the generation that will hold it next.
The McGovern Ancestral Century is an actual Century based on the McGovern family. A Century for your family name would be researched and created in the same way.
See the McGovern Ancestral CenturyActual Century · Coming soon
For a mayor's office, a visitors bureau, a chamber, or a downtown association.
A city already has the Hundred. What it does not have is one book that holds them, a reason to finish them, and a record of who did. Dublin is the working example; a City Century can be developed for your city specifically.
See the Dublin CenturyActual Century · Coming soon
For a destination-scale steward, resort group, tourism authority, island, county or region.
The Hawaiʻi Century is the working regional example. Its structure can be developed around the geography, character and adventures of another region.
See the Hawaiʻi CenturyPublic prototype
For the director of a local museum, a botanical garden, an animal rescue society, a land trust or a wish-granting foundation.
The Island Wishes Century is a sample program showing how the structure can bend for the people an organization serves. The same approach can be developed for a museum, botanical garden, humane society or land trust.
See the nonprofit prototypeBy conversation
For the executive responsible for people, training, recognition, culture, or brand.
A Corporate Century is built around a company’s specific goal. It can run during an incentive trip, a recognition weekend, a training program, the introduction of a new initiative, or across a full year. It can recognize excellence, strengthen teams, teach company priorities, and provide a shared activity that is also fun.
The name, Hundred, activities, scoring, and duration are designed for the company. A top-performer gathering in Hawaiʻi, for example, might become the Global Ambassador Century.
Start a conversationWhatever you are founding
The Founder is always yours. Choosing the Hundred is the part we never do for you, because the local knowledge cannot be outsourced. What arrives is the prototype closest to your situation, so nobody faces a blank page.
No provider, no partner, no sponsor, ever. We earn on the license, the objects and the training, so we have nothing to sell inside the Hundred and can leave it alone. That is what a guest is actually trusting.
Every hundred is read against the Standard before your name goes on it, by reviewers who work for us rather than for you. That review is the reason the name is worth carrying.
Do not invent. Harvest.
The first conversation
We look at the place, at what it already offers, at the people you already work with, and at the kind of Hundred that is already there to be found. Within an hour you should have a very good idea whether there is a Century in it.
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