How to Make Sure Your 2020 Goals Don’t Become Your 2021 Goals
Think about where you might be—both professionally and personally—in five or ten years time. Do you picture yourself exactly where you are now?
Chances are that for many of us the answer to this question is no. For good reason too. Even if we are happy now, we hope that by then we will have grown in ...
New Year, New You: Setting Goals to Become a Better Leader in 2020
Whether you manage employees, coach a team, run a business or teach a class, it goes without saying that leadership skills are extremely valuable. Effective leadership can completely transform the final outcome, forge a stronger team and increase productivity. It all sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
“But I don’t have a leadership title or managerial role,” you ...
To Retail or not to Retail: Should you Explore or Career in Retail?
When people think about a career in retail, they often have scary flashbacks to a part-time or casual job they had in their high school or university days. It seems working in retail has got a bad rep for not being a ‘real’ job. For this reason, pursuing a career in retail doesn’t cross people’s minds.
However, ...
Crucial steps to becoming a Manager that Employees want to follow.
Becoming a manager is easy. Becoming a manager that people want to work for is not. Being a manager is more than simply hiring staff and giving directions. So, what makes a manager that employees want to follow and how can you become one?
Above all, being a manager that Employees want to follow requires respect. Respect ...
New Financial Year: New Career?
The start of a new year is the perfect time to start looking for a new career, right? Well, maybe not. Figures show that an estimated 50% of the working population spends most of January looking for a new job. With all of these potential new employees on the job hunt, new studies suggest that the ...
Working Overtime. What it means for you.
As anyone in retail will tell you at this time of year, IT. IS. BUSY! It doesn't matter if you’re working in a physical store or for an online business, there is plenty to do, lots of customers to be helped and stock moving faster than you can repack the shelves or post the orders. So ...
Is it ever OK to Lie for a Sale?
“Oh my goodness, that looks AMAZING on you!” Customers have heard all it before and sometimes they believe it, but more often than not, they don’t. So, is it really ok for retail employees to tell a customer something looks fabulous when it quite obviously does not, just to secure a sale?
Consumers get it. Retail staff ...
Say Yes to Saying No at Work
We all know how hard it is to say “No” in today's workplace culture. We’re constantly being asked to attend events, complete tasks and make decisions that may not benefit us or our career. So, how do we say no in a productive and positive way to ensure that our career or workload isn’t going to ...
Maintaining Staff Motivation over the Christmas Rush
December is fast approaching and your local shopping centre is already starting to transform into a Christmas wonderland. There's no doubt in retail, December can be one of the most challenging and stressful months of the whole working year. Due to this retail employers often find it hard to maintain staff motivation and focus on work.
During ...
5 Steps to Effective Time Management
From the second we land our very first job we are constantly told that we need to manage our time effectively. No matter whether we are waitressing, packing shelves, inputting data or answering phones and emails and no matter if we are at the bottom of the hierarchy or the CEO, time management is one of ...
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