What retail has taught me and inspirational quotes
What Retail has taught me ……A Brand isn’t just a logo and website – it is your entire business, it is what you are known for, it is your message, how you speak, how you feel, it is your reputation.
Brand is the glue that holds every single thing you put out there together.
RESOLVE RETAIL is following my passion and what I love to do…
IKIGAI is the reason for being
What do i love to do ? What am I good at? What does the world need most?
IT IS HAPPENING FOR ME – Lockdown and the effect on retailers is exactly the motivation I needed to take the next transformative step in my career and launch a retail consultancy.
BRICKS AND MORTAR RETAIL has taught me –
A strong work ethic and dedication with long hours and hard work.
I am humble and driven with working my way up.
Resilience -Hearing complaints and frontline opinions has given me the skills of patience and resilience.
Ownership – the overseeing of everything from operations, visuals, and people
Management – showing initiative and accountability.
Salesmanship – influence and communicate, getting people on board.
Leadership – team leadership offering patience and professionalism to help new and less experienced staff.
Responsibility and Accountability.
Flexibility – ever changing industry where strategies can change on a daily basis.
Make plans and re-prioritise, forming contingency plans and change of direction.
Teamwork and collaboration – camaraderie and competition. Collaboration is established firmly in everything I do.
Variety of experiences – with working in all capacities of retail, versatility gained from
logistics through to visual merchandising.
Sense of humour – making any situation an achievable challenge – Fun! I can smile in the face of challenges and keep the team spirit up.
SOME FAVOURITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
- Sometimes you just know a decision is right even if you can’t prove it – and the skill of trusting your instinct is often highly understated in business. Mary Portas
- In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. Abraham Maslow
- If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got.
Albert Einstein - Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
- You cant go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending . C S Lewis
- Be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi
- Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. Mark Twain
- We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are. Max Depree – Leadership is an Art.
