I'm a GM Team Leader who was promoted back in September. Before my promotion, I would occasionally butt heads with another GM Team Member whom we'll just refer to as "Jim". Even before I began my leadership development, I would try to take charge and establish myself as a leader whom other TM's could come to if official TL's weren't around and Jim took exception to that. He didn't like TM's who would act like TL's and me and him would occasionally go at each other's throats over this issue. But at the end of the day, I won that battle once I was promoted to a TL.
Jim has been in development for the past couple of months and I honestly think that he's on the verge of being promoted. Our store is still on promotion freeze until reviews and head counts are finalized, but we have both a GMTL role open along with a Front End TL role that's recently been vacated. My SD definitely wants them filled once the freeze is over and Jim is the only GM member at our store who's actively being developed for leadership. Simply put, I don't want him to be a TL. He's been helpful and friendly to other TM's and I'll admit to him being a hard worker who applies himself and is a very reliable body on the floor, but he's rude and disrespectful to me. Whenever I get with him for his plan for the day, he doesn't make eye contact with me and whenever I'm done talking with him, he doesn't even say anything to acknowledge what I said. He just silently walks away without a word. And in the few times that he talks to me, he talks in this dull, monotone voice, as opposed to a more bright and chipper tone he takes with everyone else.
I've talked with my GM ETL about this and she said that she sees a lot of potential for him as a leader. She brought up the fact that a lot of other TM's respect him and that his metrics in his areas have been very impressive. She brought up him having the best pick time in the whole store for OPU and she also mentioned his consistent metrics in terms of sales and one-for-one's being done everyday. I tried to tell her that he doesn't deserve to be a leader and that I can't work with him with how he is, but then she got all stern with me. She strictly said "I'm the ETL and I know what I'm doing" in a tone that was clearly suppose to end the conversation.
I have half a mind to try to take this up with the SD, but I'm also wondering why I don't have any say in this. I know that I'm still relatively new as a leader and there's still plenty for me to learn, but I would like to think that I have some say in the new GMTL who's going to be working with me. Do I have no say in the role being filled? Is this purely an ETL decision?
Jim has been in development for the past couple of months and I honestly think that he's on the verge of being promoted. Our store is still on promotion freeze until reviews and head counts are finalized, but we have both a GMTL role open along with a Front End TL role that's recently been vacated. My SD definitely wants them filled once the freeze is over and Jim is the only GM member at our store who's actively being developed for leadership. Simply put, I don't want him to be a TL. He's been helpful and friendly to other TM's and I'll admit to him being a hard worker who applies himself and is a very reliable body on the floor, but he's rude and disrespectful to me. Whenever I get with him for his plan for the day, he doesn't make eye contact with me and whenever I'm done talking with him, he doesn't even say anything to acknowledge what I said. He just silently walks away without a word. And in the few times that he talks to me, he talks in this dull, monotone voice, as opposed to a more bright and chipper tone he takes with everyone else.
I've talked with my GM ETL about this and she said that she sees a lot of potential for him as a leader. She brought up the fact that a lot of other TM's respect him and that his metrics in his areas have been very impressive. She brought up him having the best pick time in the whole store for OPU and she also mentioned his consistent metrics in terms of sales and one-for-one's being done everyday. I tried to tell her that he doesn't deserve to be a leader and that I can't work with him with how he is, but then she got all stern with me. She strictly said "I'm the ETL and I know what I'm doing" in a tone that was clearly suppose to end the conversation.
I have half a mind to try to take this up with the SD, but I'm also wondering why I don't have any say in this. I know that I'm still relatively new as a leader and there's still plenty for me to learn, but I would like to think that I have some say in the new GMTL who's going to be working with me. Do I have no say in the role being filled? Is this purely an ETL decision?
