Create a detailed outline for a professional hospitality training course specifically for recreational and medical cannabis dispensary employees.
This course should focus heavily on real dispensary customer interactions, hospitality-driven sales, compliance communication, customer psychology, and building repeat customers.
Avoid generic customer service course structure. Make the outline feel specific to cannabis retail environments.
The course should reflect real dispensary situations including:
First-time cannabis customers who may feel nervous, curious, or overwhelmed
Medical cannabis patients seeking relief for pain, anxiety, sleep, or health conditions
Customers confused by strains, THC/CBD levels, terpene information, and product formats
Price-sensitive customers comparing value
Repeat customers building relationships with budtenders
Busy dispensary environments with long lines
Customers frustrated with previous purchases or product expectations
Compliance interactions like ID checks, purchase limits, regulations
Include sections covering:
Customer psychology specific to cannabis retail
Hospitality-first communication techniques
Confidence in explaining cannabis products simply
Suggestive selling without pressure
Natural upselling of accessories and complementary products
Handling difficult customer situations professionally
Balancing compliance with hospitality
Building customer loyalty and retention
Increasing average ticket size naturally through hospitality
Staff confidence and professional presence
Business impact of hospitality training
Make the outline structured for:
A full-day live training course (6–8 hours), OR
A mobile app self-paced certification program.
Tone should feel practical, realistic, and grounded in real dispensary retail experience — not corporate or textbook hospitality training.
Include 4–6 main sections with 3–5 lessons per section.
Rewrite this outline to make it more specific to cannabis dispensary operations, customer psychology, budtender interactions, and real retail situations. Add more realism, practical topics, and business-focused training elements.
Avoid generic hospitality phrasing.