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The Vision Process

4 phase program to implement organizational best practices and processes over the course of a yearlong involvement with the entire team.

Thousands

of Businesses Helped

Hundreds

of Processes Executed

Years of Experience

After going through the Vision Process, we believe our training program is the best it’s ever been. Our store looks the best it has ever looked. We’re doing some really neat things to continue growing the business.

Mike Brackin

Owner, HomCo Lumber & Hardware

After going through the Vision Process, our employee retention has drastically improved and is well above industry averages. I’m confident that the culture strategy we developed through the Vision Process deserves a lot of the credit.

Michael Wynn

Owner, Sunshine Ace Hardware

How It Works

Phase 1

Analysis of the organizations’ structure, job descriptions, culture and begin working with the management on the “Management Journey” development program – an introduction to DiSC is also initiated. Visit to stores and evaluation of operations/culture.

Phase 2

Implementation and rollout of core values if needed, introduction of best practice operational processes, continuation of “Management Journey” for management team, continued evaluation of stores.

Phase 3

Introduction of recognition program to core values, continuation of best practices for operational and cultural focus, continuation of “Management Journey” for management team, introduction of interview process and management performance processes. Continued evaluation of stores.

Phase 4

Final session of “Management Journey” to summarize management coaching, time management, and leadership processes. Review and finalization of all operational best practices – focus on operational and cultural results. Introduction of keeping the processes going and communication processes emphasized. Throughout this process a “task and communication” system is introduced for accountability and delegation success. Evaluation and review of all stores and processes during this final session of the Vision Process.

Organizational Assessment

Not sure where your business is at?  Our two-day assessment will help identify if your retail processes can be enhanced, Does your team communicate effectively? Is your culture where you want it to be? These are a few questions that would be addressed in our assessment tool – The Road Map for suggestions to help make your retail organization the best it can be – resulting in increased sales and excellent customer service.

DiSC Team Building and Coaching Tools

We use DiSC assessment tools to help us understand how to build relationships, create teamwork, improve leadership skills and overall communication. Our organization has worked with various industries, using DiSC tools, to improve and create healthy work environments.   

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Thousands

of Businesses Helped

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of Processes Executed

Years of Experience

WHY DO DiSC ASSESSMENTS?

After completing the DiSC assessment, you receive a helpful report. The report will explain your unique style and personality in detail, and offer guidelines for interacting with other styles. The guidelines will help with effective communication, team building, and conflict resolution. Each DiSC style has their preferred way of communicating, which is why people, more times than not, have misunderstandings and miscommunications.

The assessment will teach you techniques to flex your personality and communication style to better understand others’ preferred way of communicating. When different styles learn how to communicate effectively, the team building has already begun.

It will give your employees motivation and satisfaction because they know they are being heard within their team. This will then help lower turnover rates and utilize all your employees’ strengths. Not only will DiSC help your employees feel more confident in themselves, but it will also teach them how to be confident when dealing with conflict. When conflict arises, you will be able to take into account an employees’ style and work out a solution in order to resolve the conflict at hand.

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The Workout Process

A process we use to gather pertinent information and dissect it to review efficiencies, purpose and clarify expectations in a role, department, process etc. This helps owners and managers re-evaluate whether a process is working and create actions to enhance or correct issues.

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of Businesses Helped

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of Processes Executed

Years of Experience

WHY DO THE WORKOUT PROCESS?

This helps owners and managers re-evaluate whether a process is working and create actions to enhance or correct issues. A “deep dive” session on a topic to analyse efficiencies and produce a better way to implement a process, a role, a system, etc. 

Operational Best Practices

We have developed consistent operational best practices that provide healthy and successful routines for retail and operational management to maximize business results. All our best practices have been developed by great managers across our system that have been successful in driving excellent revenue results along with creating healthy cultures and good retention. We work hard in training and developing systems customized to your particular operation for maximizing successful results. We continue to add innovative best practices as the market and demographics demand and are always improving our systems to work for the individual operation.

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of Businesses Helped

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of Processes Executed

Years of Experience

Store Walk Process

Store walks are an important routine for getting your store ready for the customers. We customize the walk based on input from the owner/manager focus and build checklists and systems to work seamlessly regardless of who opens and/or closing the store. Our tasking processes identify issues and delegate out important focus areas to provide a safe and customer service oriented environment for the customers and team.

Maintenance of Store Zones/Departments

Zoning a store is critical in providing a customer-oriented environment. We put into place systems for all employees to always be “busy” when not helping their customers. Zoning helps maintain the overall store appearance and provides individual and transparent accountability to every team member.

Checklists for All Operational Functions

Checklists help the employee “remember” to do the basics.  While many members of the team are familiar with the routines of running a store, checklists help with accountability and reminders for team members when working on retail routines.  Again, the accountability of checklists allows for seamless operational execution of processes. The days of hearing “when I’m not in the store, things don’t run as well as they should” aren’t heard much at all due to the consistency of processes and routines.

Customer Service Observations

How do you know if your employees are providing the best “sales” and “customer” experience possible? The only way is to have management trained in what that looks like. One of the tools we use is observations of all front line employees to build on their self-confidence of things they are doing well and point out how their customer experience can be enhanced by observing team members while engaging with customers. This helps provide communication tips to the team on focused areas of our processes that can help improve sales and the customer experience. Feedback is “key” to managing the team. Observations help us all be the best we can be on the retail floor. 

Dexter – Task Management Process (Optional)

Meet Dexter! Dexter is our newly developed task management tool to help delegate, prioritize, plan, and communicate to the retail team tasks and important information to provide great service and seamless operational excellence. Take a look at our Dexter platform and our demo and give us a call to schedule an online consultation on how this tool can help you and your team.  

Culture Excellence

Our commitment to great culture is key in what we do and it is the secret to our success. There are many organizations that provide training and consultations to help teams improve operational excellence. Most don’t work because they miss the key ingredient and that is providing and building the foundation of their business with a culture that can be measured along with a culture that provides ongoing systems to keep it alive.

We have worked with the best organizations across the country that have excelled in building great cultures with their employees and customer experience and brought those key secrets to the retail world. While many companies in the retail world have tried to “copy” many of our processes, they don’t have the insight, the commitment or focus that our team has in getting you to the finish line of success.  

Working with a professional group of consultants that know how to build core values that have meaning, and are clearly defined to the team so coaching, hiring processes, and overall recognition keep the culture alive and active in the day-to-day operational world of retail, is what we excel in.       

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of Businesses Helped

Years of Experience

Enhance/Establish Core Values

Do your core values have real meaning? Do your employees talk about them during their day-to-day routines? Do you recognize employees around great core value execution? Do you hire team members “first” by displaying your core values? Probably not. Learn how we can make your core values have meaning in your day-to-day operational routines. 

Floor Staff: 1-2-1 Process

This is a process that many hardware retailers have tried to copy. Again, unsuccessfully. Our secret to 1-2-1 processes is consistency and follow up with the employees to assure we are providing feedback, building strong relationships, and creating healthy work environments. We create employee relationships that make it easy for front line team members to discuss issues with their management and owner teams. We proactively find out things that are happening on the store floor before issues escalate and become problems. We also monitor feedback sessions and review content to help management be the best they can be conducting 1-2-1s.   

Management – IDPS and DP Process

Our management IDPs and DPs are development templates to help management set goals, provide development opportunities, and assure feedback sessions take place between owners/management. Our online tools allow for the transparency to take place between a management supervisor/assistant manager and the store manager/owner. Our routine of this process allows healthy feedback between organizational levels of the organization. Even support teams are involved with this process to assure everyone in the organization is given time to discuss development opportunities and feedback discussions. 

Coaching Process

While our coaching process itself is not “unique” from other processes – what makes it “special” is how we teach management to coach based on DiSC style and core values. We also train management to “help” the employee improve before going to progressive discipline options.  The world we live in needs management that will develop and coach their teams to success and not just “boss” people around. That just doesn’t work today and we spend endless hours on helping management teams improve their communication and coaching skills to help their teams and not divide them.

Innovation Teams

Why does management and ownership always feel they have to have all the answers to helping provide healthy work environments? Well, our Innovation Team concept takes team members from the front line to come up with “fun” ideas to keep the team motivated and engaged. Our process puts into place different employee and customer events that create a fun and enjoyable working environment. 

Feedback Sessions for Improvement and Discovery

A process for providing feedback and creating solutions within the management team to improve performance as a team, improve an operational challenge, or streamline efficiency of a process or standard.

This process takes a deep dive into an operational system or focus area and starts with looking at what happens at each step of the process or area of focus. We then bring in the “experts” that are handling that process or focus area and define, look for redundancies, inefficiencies, etc. to create an action plan of change to help streamline that process.

This process has helped retailers save money, eliminate ineffective and inefficient processes – saving time, money, and resources.  

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of Businesses Helped

Hundreds

of Processes Executed

Years of Experience

WHY DO FEEDBACK SESSIONS?

If you ever wondered “is that the best way to do that?” then this process might give clarity to your question. Whether it’s defining a job description role, looking at your inventory process to unloading a freight truck, this process can help shed light and actionable focus tips to create effective and efficient solutions.

Leadership Development

Need your managers to better “leaders?” We offer a series of leadership tools to help management “step up” and take charge.  First, evaluating if you have the right people in the right jobs/roles is key. We work hard at establishing does your team member have the competence, confidence, ability, and willingness to step up as a leader in their respective role.

We focus on management and leadership tools to help the team come together with a clearly defined vision, focus and measurable results for accountability.  

Our toolbox is full of resources to help managers/owners be more effective in their roles. 

Hundreds

of Businesses Helped

Hundreds

of Processes Executed

Years of Experience

Management Journey

Our Management Journey is a piece of our Vision Process – it is a 4 module program over the course of the year to work “onsite” with your entire management team to implement best practices and measurable expectations. While going through this program during the Vision Process, you get exposure to all our processes and tools. To sign up for your team to go through the Management Journey independently, our focus is to help the team step up and be better managers, strengthen the team dynamics and clarify measurable expectations, it definitely is a good onsite “total management” program to establish a great action plan for the future of the team accomplishing stated goals/expectations.

Key areas of focus include building better relationships with the team/communication processes, time management in areas of delegating, prioritizing, planning and goal setting, leadership/emotional intelligence, and operational effectiveness.

Future Leaders

Want to build the bench at your stores? We offer a way to identify “high-potential” team members that could potentially be your next supervisor, assistant manager, or store manager and give them a “path” for development. We offer in-classroom training with the identified team, a curriculum-based module training via online and in-person development and testing of situational examples to help narrow down if the potential employee could be successful in their management role.

This is a program designed and customized around your organization’s core values and is a year-long program commitment with onsite development focus.

Executive Coaching

Do you have a manager or general manager that needs a coach to help in the development of leadership and/or management best practices? Executive coaching is a 1-2-1 process that helps an owner/manager with a development plan to accomplish goals and stay on course.  Often shared are processes, developmental reading, and assignments to help the owner/manager be a better leader to their team. It is often helpful for an owner/manager to have someone from outside the organization to help uncover difficult topics that need to be addressed and help overcome obstacles that might be in the way to accomplish goals and operational and cultural success. 

Hundreds

of Businesses Helped

Hundreds

of Processes Executed

Years of Experience

Coaching Tools

We use coaching processes that work.  Our goal is to incorporate core values and communication style when coaching. By utilizing all the coaching tools – IDPS/DPS, profiles, and best practices for coaching our managers/owners learn to communicate more effectively and accomplish good change management goals with their teams. 

DiSC

We use DiSC assessment tools to help us understand how to build relationships, create teamwork, improve leadership skills and overall communication. Our organization has worked with various industries, using DiSC tools, to improve and create healthy work environments.   

Everything DiSC 363® Processes

Everything DiSC 363® for Leaders combines the best of 360-degree feedback with the simplicity and power of DiSC®, plus three strategies to put into action immediately.

Core Value Execution

We work closely with owners/managers/frontline of the organization to align core values with the day-to-day hiring, recognition, coaching, and communication processes assuring that the entire organization knows the expected behaviors necessary to achieve success.

Best Practices for Retail Development

We have developed consistent operational best practices that provide healthy and successful routines for retail and operational management to maximize business results. All our best practices have been developed by great managers across our system that have been successful in driving excellent revenue results along with creating healthy cultures and good retention.

Emotional Intelligence

One of the most difficult areas to focus on with an employee is their ability to self-reflect. The Emotional Intelligence training and tools we use help the individual understand how their behavior is impacting others they work with.  By utilizing the tools and exercises in this feedback program, with ongoing coaching sessions, the individual receives a development plan to help stay the course and create improved self-reflection for improvement.

Sales Training – B2B and Front Line Retail Excellence

Do you want to improve your operational sales focus? Do you have a B2B person on your staff? Have you helped them in their development to be a great salesperson that represents your organization in the best light? We have sales training and tools to help. Successful salespeople are great listeners, they know how to identify the needs of the customer, and know-how to match the customers needs to products and services your organization offers.  

We can help in the development of your B2B staff member and create a development plan for them to set goals and improve and enhance their sales skills.