When your new hire quickly adapts to your business, is welcomed by both staff and customers and enthusiastically wants to stay – you have found your perfect fit!!
Take a look at your staff. Are they making you money or costing you your profit margins?
Managing retail would be challenging enough if it was just setting budgets, buying inventory and establishing marketing promotions. When you throw in the human component – staff and customers – you have opened a whole new Pandora’s Box of divergent personalities, hot button issues and unforeseen problems. The more you struggle to balance what appears to be opposing goals, the easier it is to throw your hands up in despair. Thankfully there is a simple solution to this dilemma.
As retail store manager you are facing a difficult multi-faceted challenge that can have a tremendous impact on the bottom line of your retail store. While one size does not fit all, three factors must be considered in every good scheduling plan: economy, efficiency and effectiveness.
