by Jon | Dec 9, 2024
Here is something I think about. We co-op managers are sensitive, good-hearted folks who are looking for a new way to live in a world that often seems cruel and heartless. We feel the pain of the oppressed and we’re determined to make it better in any...
by Jon | Oct 14, 2024
I wonder at times if we don’t dig ourselves in a hole spending so much time focusing on the things we don’t want to happen at our co-ops. Decreased sales, increased expenses, callouts, turnover, poor service and on and...
by Jon | Oct 14, 2024
When someone comes up into management hopefully they get some training and instruction when taking the job. Hopefully. This provides them with the nuts and bolts on what to do and when to do it. But there is one thing that all the training in the...
by Jon | Aug 8, 2024
Recently some folks have been struggling with an employee who is just driving them crazy. It is a situation where the employee has many personal agendas about their job and their working conditions. They then look for any small misstep on the part of...
by Jon | Jul 1, 2024
Recently I was at a new employee orientation training with some of our new clerks and cashiers. Also, in attendance were two of our managers who I had been working with to co-present at the training. When I entered the room, the managers...
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