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Reawaken Retail

Retail is dead.

 

It is time to breathe life back into commerce.  

 

Two separate situations. Similar experiences.  

 

I was the camp host at a ...

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A Leader’s Dream: The Culture of Accountability

Once you embrace the role of Leader, you find there are fewer and fewer people who are comfortable being responsible. I spoke last week for the Manhat...

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The Harsh Truth About Training

This month we’ve been revisiting my book, “Leading Change: How to Achieve Superior Results with Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied”. Today, I am foc...

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Gentle Pressure

If you want something to improve, you’ll need pressure. In physics, pressure is expressed as “Force per unit area”: P=F/A. Pressure is usually a conti...

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They Don't Get It!

THEY DON’T GET IT: Why aren’t you getting results with your team?

 

If you manage people or lead a team, you have likely felt this way. Frustrated, ...

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Nearly One Year Later...

I released my second book, “Leading Change: How to Achieve Superior Results with Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied” almost one year ago on May 16, ...

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Perfect Practice Makes Perfect

As we wrap up our month of focus on ORBiT, we will end with the importance of the last step, Cycle. We have all heard the phrase “practice makes perfe...

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Show Me!

The step in ORBiT where the rubber hits the road is Demonstration (also known as Show Me!). At this point in the process, the trainee will have the op...

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Why We Will Never Ask You To Role-Play

Many people in retail have heard the dreaded phrase “We are going to do some role play on this skill.” It usually means that you and your boss are goi...

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Context is Everything

For March, we will be spending our time looking at ORBiT. ORBiT is the process we use and highly recommend for teaching adults a new skill or developi...

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Last But Not Least...

What do store managers think about store managers?

 

Over the last few weeks, we have been exploring the most important core competencies and attrib...

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Voice Your Expectations

What is the owner’s view of their store managers? 

The run industry wanted to explore what this means by creating a session at the first-ever Run Con...

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