Once a retailer chooses MOHR Retail the real work begins to ensure that whatever the training we’re putting into place that we are all clear on the importance of the senior leaders and their role.  The Vitamin Shoppe understood this well.  Their SVP Retail, SVP HR, and all of the Regional Directors met to agree on how to introduce, participate and close this important session.  We reviewed the content for the day, introduced exclusive senior leader strategies for follow up & reinforcement, and detailed what success would look like.

Over the 26 years I’ve had the pleasure of working with retailers on skill-building training, the true impact of any training could always be predicted by how involved the senior leaders were from the start.  Many times it’s just verbal support, at worst it’s a “…just fix them..” approach but the best has always come when senior leaders agree that their involvement is critical and build a plan specifically for their role before, during, and after.

Kudos to The Vitamin Shoppe senior team, including their CEO, for starting out with the strongest foundation.  The session was an overwhelming success.  It tied many skills and insights to the rest of the week-long business meeting.  I am more confident than ever that they will get the most out of their investment, well beyond the basics.  They have also set the bar high for future development and sent a strong message to their management teams that continuous learning is essential.

How involved is your senior team in training initiatives?  Share your thoughts here for other retailers to read or tweet us @mohrretail.  Thanks for reading and remember, in retail, every day is a chance to learn MOHR.

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About MOHR Retail

For more than 30 years, MOHR Retail has developed the critical people-to-people skills needed to create results in the retail industry—and we’re just getting started. Through innovative classroom and online learning methods, as well as our ongoing national retail research projects, we continue to stay on top of the trends so we can fuel the success of specialty stores, chain stores, outlets, catalogue retailers, department stores, and more. Nowhere does learning meet experience as it does in a MOHR Retail training program.