Welcome back and if you came by to make a comment some of my comments get moderated but I’ll get it moderated within a day unless I’m on vacation.
I’ve got a new plugin that enables you to subscribe to comments to see if anybody comments on your comment. You’d hate [...]
So, I’m an area manager with eleven stores that report to me. I’m responsible for 20% of the stores in the company I work for and how’d I get here? Really?
Well, I was a manager of a store, not a very big store really. The store was frequently in the bottom 3 of the [...]
In the past fifteen years I’ve trained a LOT of employees. One of my biggest pet peeves has always been people who stand there while I’m training them and just shut down, lose their eyes and say “I can’t do this.”
It makes me want to scream. I will say something a hundred different ways [...]
The Chinese New Year isn’t for a while yet, but I’m going to stick with the Tiger imagery anyway.
I’m reading The Spark right now, a book that I will review in much more detail later. It will be a weekend post since I agreed to do book reviews on weekend posts. One of the [...]
Retail managers are frequently on call far too much and get too many calls and not enough money for the time they put in. Burn-out is one of the biggest problems I, as an Area Manager have to deal with. My managers, those that work one level under me, love their stores and their employees [...]