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This was one of the things I've heard many senior people at Target talk about. They constantly have a pipeline of people they're pushing into leadership roles.
by at-fates-hands 4y ago
This was one of the things I've heard many senior people at Target talk about. They constantly have a pipeline of people they're pushing into leadership roles. If you come in and show some promise managing projects and people, they essentially start grooming you immediately and focus on pushing you up in the leadership ranks.
AFAIK they've never had any issues with having enough people in their org either on the retail or corporate side who want to be in leadership roles.
- LazyMans 4y agoI really feel like this is the correct way to operate. Create real career paths for people, get employees to buy into what they're doing. It results in happier employees, happier customers, and ultimately everybody wins if the entire company isn't turning over constantly. Costco can drive much more productivity from each person because they work to retain these people. Turnover is bad for morale, and training a new person takes time and money.
- ilamont 4y agoRelative worked at Target retail at a very junior role ... the group responsible for restocking. It was a very unusual management structure at the local store; just a nebulous "team" with no real point person like at a grocery store which has specific managers, assistant managers, and department managers. It seemed a little loose at times (and abusable from a staff perspective), but I could also see it was flexible and the store did very well.