Creating high-performing retail teams

Team working and leadership capability is at the heart of any successful organisation. Individual motivation and recognition, team collaboration and departmental focus should all contribute to convergent goals for the whole business.

Some key principles however underpin success, one of which is that teams need to be managed. Performance management systems – often characterised by balanced scorecards – can become largely irrelevant and bureaucratic processes. To be truly effective they should support the creation of a cross-team working culture that is the very essence of successful retail management.

In the retail sector in particular, working across functions can lead to competitive agendas and unrealistic ambition when one department fails to acknowledge or value the importance of another. Examples include data integrity in IT, promotional loading in store operations or targets for wastage in the supply chain. At PA we have demonstrated our ability to help organisations create not only the culture, but also the techniques and process, to build and maintain high-performing teams.

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