Merchants and home office Support Managers are more likely to attend cross-funtional meetings and have far greater exposure to senior executives than any of the field management in retail like DMs and Regionals.  Some of the interactions are quick, “five second hallway conversations” one participant said, to massive strategy meetings with many people and levels which last for hours all provide an opportunity for these leaders to shine; or not.  “I always get feedback from my boss and others about whether I talked in a meeting or was quiet” said another.

We talked about the best practices for what to do when you don’t own the agenda and are still asked to participate.  How do I prepare for the unexpected?  How do I make sure if I talk I say something that adds value and insight that separates me from the crowd of peers?  This topic resonates with emerging leaders like no other.  How do I build credibility across company-wide relationships?

This is the grand finale of modules for MSL and rightly so.  It takes all of the skills we’ve learned, insights we’ve gained about DiSC styles, and core strategies to use to make sure that your leadership presence shines whether you own the agenda or not.  What do you teach your Home Office and Support Center leaders about how to get noticed in a good way?  How to get ahead?  Share your thoughts or tweet us @mohrretail.

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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.