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Managing Your Best Resources: Mining for Great Store Employees Peter Dods, Easy Music. Importance vs Urgency. High Importance/Low Urgency - 1. High Importance/High Urgency - 2. Hiring Protocol Purchase Order Protocol Fixture Improvement. Big HR problems Placing a special order
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Managing Your Best Resources: Mining for Great Store Employees Peter Dods, Easy Music
Importance vs Urgency High Importance/Low Urgency - 1 High Importance/High Urgency - 2 Hiring Protocol Purchase Order Protocol Fixture Improvement Big HR problems Placing a special order Making room for stock Nothing will change today if this doesn’t happen, but if you don’t mind this quadrant, you will never grow your business, and you will end up in quadrant 2 again and again! You just have to get this done now or you will be out of business soon! Perhaps some time spent on quadrant one could have prevented this from happening? Importance Low Importance/High Urgency - 4 Low Importance/Low Urgency - 3 Gabbing with my reps Getting better as a musician Learning how to use product Evaluating a Used Buy HOSA Stocking Order Employee Reviews If you are doing this, you won’t be in business much longer! Anytime you have time to do this, go to Quadrant 1. It has to get done now or soon, but is it really that important? Plan ahead for these! Delegate responsibly? Urgency
Getting to Quadrant #1 • Tackle something from #1 as soon as you get into the store • Don’t open your email until you get something done • Learn how to farm out less important high urgency items to staff • Come in when the store is closed and you have space to think. Really! • Take time to visualize and realize what is important in the long run. If you don’t • know what Quadrant #1 consists of, how can you possibly get there?