From the course: Rocking Your First Retail Sales Job
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Innovating vs. executing
From the course: Rocking Your First Retail Sales Job
Innovating vs. executing
- When you first come into a new organization, it's easy to spot all the things that need improving. Listen, I get it. You're smart and you probably have a lot of great ideas. And you probably think you're being super helpful by pointing out all these needs improvement areas. But hear me out here. Imagine you walk into someone's house and you immediately start giving decorating advice. You tell them their paint color is too dark or ask who in their right mind picked out those curtains. Oh, and by the way, you don't have formal decorating experience. Not cool. Right? Yeah, even if its true. The same principle applies on your first day of work. Wait until you're fully in the swing of things to start bringing up opportunities for improvement. That might take days, weeks, or even months. Because there might be a reason behind a certain system or a solution might be too expensive. Or there's some other rationale you just won't know about in your first couple of shifts. And, even if there…
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