Leadership
PTMNGT – Week: 5
Leadership:
Being part of a retail organisation comes with many challenges. One of those is definitely managing the biggest company resource, people. This is one of the most difficult tasks being a manager in such a dynamic environment.
One such manager that stands out in our organisation is our operations manager. He is young dynamic, energetic, focussed, receiving, goal orientated, full of new ideas and in touch with what exactly is happening on ground level.
As competition is very rigorous in our retail sector with other big companies that input very big amounts into publicity and marketing, our operations manager stays in touch will a vast majority of people that are in touch with the latest trends in the market.
An excellent trait of David is his willingness to listen to the people who interact with the day to day happenings, not isolating himself from what happens on the forefront of business and due to his always available and helpful personality he creates a very important, clear channel of communication that leads to a managing style, that is not very far off the similarity of discussing your frustrations with a friend, without him holding your viewpoints, frustration, and day to day business experience against you.
Without this special channel of communication, a multitude of negative situations happen within your organization of which you will either net hear directly or will find our when it is to late already.
Early in his days of only being a student and contributing to a one shop business that changed over as little as 10 years into our current company, by selling the products to his fellow students, he not only started on ground zero, but also was he willing to share in a dream, that he knew has the potential to develop into something very big. What he possibly did not realise back then, was that, largely due to his input, growth, development and commitment, he contributed largely to what the company is today, which
Leadership:
Being part of a retail organisation comes with many challenges. One of those is definitely managing the biggest company resource, people. This is one of the most difficult tasks being a manager in such a dynamic environment.
One such manager that stands out in our organisation is our operations manager. He is young dynamic, energetic, focussed, receiving, goal orientated, full of new ideas and in touch with what exactly is happening on ground level.
As competition is very rigorous in our retail sector with other big companies that input very big amounts into publicity and marketing, our operations manager stays in touch will a vast majority of people that are in touch with the latest trends in the market.
An excellent trait of David is his willingness to listen to the people who interact with the day to day happenings, not isolating himself from what happens on the forefront of business and due to his always available and helpful personality he creates a very important, clear channel of communication that leads to a managing style, that is not very far off the similarity of discussing your frustrations with a friend, without him holding your viewpoints, frustration, and day to day business experience against you.
Without this special channel of communication, a multitude of negative situations happen within your organization of which you will either net hear directly or will find our when it is to late already.
Early in his days of only being a student and contributing to a one shop business that changed over as little as 10 years into our current company, by selling the products to his fellow students, he not only started on ground zero, but also was he willing to share in a dream, that he knew has the potential to develop into something very big. What he possibly did not realise back then, was that, largely due to his input, growth, development and commitment, he contributed largely to what the company is today, which