2. Managing Your Best Resources: Mining for Great Store Employees
Peter Dods, Easy Music

3. Importance Urgency Importance vs Urgency Hiring Protocol
High Importance/Low Urgency - 1
High Importance/High Urgency - 2
Hiring Protocol
Purchase Order Protocol
Fixture Improvement
Big HR problems
Placing a special order
Making room for stock
Nothing will change today if this doesn’t happen, but if you don’t mind this quadrant, you will never grow your business, and you will end up in quadrant 2 again and again!
You just have to get this done now or you will be out of business soon! Perhaps some time spent on quadrant one could have prevented this from happening?
Importance
Low Importance/Low Urgency - 3
Low Importance/High Urgency - 4
Gabbing with my reps
Getting better as a musician
Learning how to use product
Evaluating a Used Buy
HOSA Stocking Order
Employee Reviews
If you are doing this, you won’t
be in business much longer! Anytime you have time to do this, go to Quadrant 1.
It has to get done now or soon, but is it really that important? Plan ahead for these! Delegate responsibly?
Urgency

4. Getting to Quadrant #1
Tackle something from #1 as soon as you get into the store
Don’t open your until you get something done
Learn how to farm out less important high urgency items to staff
Come in when the store is closed and you have space to think. Really!
Take time to visualize and realize what is important in the long run. If you don’t
know what Quadrant #1 consists of, how can you possibly get there?