Do I want to be a Supervisor
b"Warehouse and Operations as a Career with you here today, I\\u2019m Marty and I\\u2019d like to thank each of you for taking a few minutes with us again. I\\u2019ve had a great time out on the road the last couple of weeks, very productive trips but it\\u2019s nice to be back home and getting caught up. With our last two episodes we talked about getting noticed and how to best utilize our knowledge, which we gain at every shift we work, and communicate it to our supervisors. I\\u2019d like to thank everyone that emailed and shared your thoughts, experiences and suggestions with us recently. I\\u2019ve had a few people asking about the Supervisors role. I was sent a couple of questions that came to their minds, and I felt they were valid questions so let\\u2019s talk a little bit about the position of Supervisor today. Supervision, or any management role really, can seem challenging to us in the beginning. Personally I feel two of the most important traits we\\u2019ll need to learn if we do not already possess them is Organization & Time Management Skills. I\\u2019m not necessarily talking about multi-tasking, and by the way that\\u2019s a philosophy I strongly discourage, at least in our industry. Anyway, with the additional duties we could be tasked with as Leads and Supervisors you\\u2019ll find that stopping and starting points, maybe checklists or task sheets will help us insure we get everything done and all the bases are covered. Planning out our day regarding when things have to been done can insure we have the time to devote to each of our responsibilities. Lead positions and Supervisor roles or their specific task are kind of difficult to wrap up into a nice little package as every warehouse and facility can be structured differently with an organizational chart that sometimes has so many branches to it that it seems almost confusing itself. Lets start with a definition: Merriam Webster explains to us that a Supervisor is:
\\none that supervises; especially : an administrative officer in charge of a business, government, or school unit or operation
\\n when I checked out Supervises it states Supervises \\u2013
\\nto be in charge of : superintend, oversee supervise a large staff supervised the ship's daily operations.
\\nWell theirs the definition, from a book anyway, so what does a Supervisor do in our world. Maybe I\\u2019m getting ahead of myself, I kind of jumped off track again. OK, lets look at the questions sent into us the last two weeks. I received several variations of this one: You speak a lot about being noticed and moving into management, why would I want to be a lead or supervisor? That\\u2019s a very good question & one I hear almost weekly in one form or another. As I\\u2019ve spoken to before Operations has been very good to me over the last 38 years or so. I feel it\\u2019s a great Industry and Career path for those of us that need to stay busy, that need to make money and have a check coming in each week and enjoy working in teams or around other people. Yep, the work is hard, can be physically demanding and stressful even - when we\\u2019re taking our jobs serious. Once we learn the mechanics of the warehouse, the general labor positions, and then the skilled jobs we\\u2019re unlimited regarding our advancement possibilities. The more responsibilities we\\u2019ll take on, the more money we will make and the more opportunities that will be offered to us. Want to be the President of your Distribution Center or Corporation, you can within this field, I\\u2019ve seen it done, honestly. As a matter of fact, as we get a bit further into discussing mid management after the 4th quarter we\\u2019ll have a couple of guest that started on the floor and retired as Presidents and CEO\\u2019s of large distribution centers!
\\nI always answer the question of Why would I want to be a Supervisor with because believe it or not you\\u2019re going to want to make more money, at some point the physical part of the job may become more than you\\u2019re interested in doing & I believe everyone wants to be challeng..."