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- Aug 24, 2012
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For a minimum of the last four months, our backroom has been without an official TL. Our ETL-Logistics or Flow TL would assume authority in the back, trying to keep everything running smoothly with mixed results, (many TM's wouldn't respect the Flow TL's authority as he had little knowledge of how things actually go down in our backroom).
This week, however, things changed. We found ourselves with a (still) very new, meek, and reserved Logistics TL with only two months of training via Spot. Upon first sight, many of us assumed that he was simply a TM from another store, simply helping us out as we finish our P-Fresh remodel. Upon introduction, however, we learned our assumptions were wrong. The entire Logistics team is still not sure what to think of this guy, (some are very confident that he won't even make it halfway through the 4th quarter). He supposedly graduated from a well-renowned military school/college recently and applied for an ETL position, but was offered the TL position instead because of his quiet and reserved manner. I can be the same way on certain days, though, so I recognize that many introverted people have the same (and sometimes, better) skills of their extroverted counterparts. I haven't worked directly with this person myself as of yet, and I have only observed him doing two things over the course of a week: backstocking and doing a business walk with our ETL-Log. So, yes, even I am wondering if he will last or not...
So, how long does it take your team to warm up to new "leaders", and so forth? Any unofficial 'tests' your team will put them through to see what they are really made of, etc. ?
This week, however, things changed. We found ourselves with a (still) very new, meek, and reserved Logistics TL with only two months of training via Spot. Upon first sight, many of us assumed that he was simply a TM from another store, simply helping us out as we finish our P-Fresh remodel. Upon introduction, however, we learned our assumptions were wrong. The entire Logistics team is still not sure what to think of this guy, (some are very confident that he won't even make it halfway through the 4th quarter). He supposedly graduated from a well-renowned military school/college recently and applied for an ETL position, but was offered the TL position instead because of his quiet and reserved manner. I can be the same way on certain days, though, so I recognize that many introverted people have the same (and sometimes, better) skills of their extroverted counterparts. I haven't worked directly with this person myself as of yet, and I have only observed him doing two things over the course of a week: backstocking and doing a business walk with our ETL-Log. So, yes, even I am wondering if he will last or not...
So, how long does it take your team to warm up to new "leaders", and so forth? Any unofficial 'tests' your team will put them through to see what they are really made of, etc. ?