October 6th Conference Call

Channelle from store 1479 will be our guest leader for this next week's call on Accountabilty. Here is what she would like you all to do to prepare for the call.......

*In the Field MU please print and read the article titled "Accountabilty".
(Field MU can be found on Intranet under Training)

*There is a self test on page 12 of the article and we would like everyone to complete that.

* We would like everyone to think of someone who is very successful in the position that you yourself hold as well as someone who has some room for improvement. Be prepared to share examples and/or thoughts on them.

September 8th Conference Call

For next week's please print and read the article titled "Helping Others Take Ownership" that can be found under Manager Development in the Field MU on intranet. Please come prepared with one question that you would like to pose to the group that is related to the article.

Talk to you on Tuesday!

Lindsay & Liz

Tuesday August 11th

Our topic for next week's call will be mentoring. To prepare we would like you to read the tab on mentoring that can be found in the Managment Think Box. The following are the questions that we would like you think about as you are reading about mentoring.

1. What is mentoring?
2. Who becomes a mentor?
3. How does mentoring work?
4. How do you prepare a mentor?
5. What are some characteristics of effective mentors?

We can't wait to hear your thoughts on mentoring!!

Thanks,
Lindsay & Liz

***Calling All Assistant Managers***

If you are currently planning on participating in the bachelor level conference calls and you do not see your name on the sidebar please leave a comment on this post letting us know so that we can update the list!!

Thanks,
Lindsay & Liz

July 28th Conference Call

Thanks everyone for hanging in there through all these computer issues. Next week's call is going to be on coaching. So if eveyone could please read the tab in the Think Box and come prepared to answer questions! Can't wait to hear your thoughts on coaching!

Liz & Lindsay

Technical Difficulties

Sorry guys, for some reason the blog is not updating like it should so we are moving next week's call to the 28th. More information to come next week after we can sort out some issues with Blogger.

Thanks
Liz & Lindsay

July 7th Conference Call

We are super excited to remind you all that this is our last associate level conference call!! I'm proud of all of you who have stuck through it and now are being rewarded with that 'degree'! Reminder to those of you that have not certified with your manager...you might want to set up a time this week or next because you MUST be certified no later then July 11th in order to participant in the next round of calls.

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On to this next week's call, we are going to be covering some HR procedures that are relevent to your positions as well as proformance evaluations. To prepare for this call we would like everyone to read the tabs on these two topics that are located in the Managment Think Box and browse through the section in the employee handbook that deals with HR...make yourself familar with Maurices policies regarding the different aspects of Human Resources. In addition to those items we would also like everyone to write a performance evalution for themselves!! Talk with your store manager to ensure that you understand what this task entails.

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We are not going to have any formal questions this week so make sure you know your HR stuff cause we're going to spring random questions your way! Talk to you on Tuesday!