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b'WAOC, or Warehouse and Operations as a Career here with ya, I hope you\\u2019ve had a great & Productive week out there. I\\u2019m in Denver Colorado this week checking on a few Facilities and enjoying looking at the mountains. I\\u2019m getting ready to go visit the second shift and thought we\\u2019d do a little recording while I wait for them to get started! You all know how I like the dictionary, and I\\u2019d like to give you 3 definitions to ponder for a minute.
\\n\\u2022\\tAN ACTION OF LEADING A GROUP OF PEOPLE OR AN ORGANIZATION HTTP://WWW.BUSINESSDICTIONARY.COM/DEFINITION/LEADERSHIP.HTML
\\n\\u2022\\tTHE ACTION, PROCESS, OR OCCUPATION OF SUPERVISING: ESPECIALLY: A CRITICAL WATCHING AND DIRECTING (AS OF ACTIVITIES OR A COURSE OF ACTION HTTPS://WWW.MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM/DICTIONARY/SUPERVISION
\\n\\u2022\\tBE IN CHARGE, ORGANIZE AND DIRECT, RELAY DIRECTION HTTPS://WWW.OXFORDDICTIONARIES.COM/
\\nLEADERSHIP
\\nA SUPERVISOR
\\nA LEAD\\u2019S POSITION
\\nI gave a class earlier this week on Supervision, well I say I gave a class, I think every time I get around a bunch of Leads, Supervisors and Managers I learn more from them than I\\u2019m able to share myself. It\\u2019s exciting to see so many individuals everyday that\\u2019s wanting more from their jobs than just that weekly paycheck and the occasional good job comment from their bosses. As we\\u2019ve talked about before I think any task or job in operations can make a great Career. I really enjoyed driving a Forklift and especially the time I spent as an Order Selector, you punch in and know exactly what needs to get done, someone gives you the case counts and you get it done, clean it up and you can punch out and go home! Even as much as I enjoyed those task I found myself a bit bored at times & really wanted to learn those other task that came before and after mine. You know like how the orders came down from Sales and how did the system put them into our batches and how was the routing of the loads put together and why would the driver drive past stops only to go back by in the afternoon. I guess you could say, simply put that I wanted a bit more.
\\nAs part of the class I brought up a few of the Pro\\u2019s and Con\\u2019s with coming off the floor as an hourly associate and into a Lead or Supervision Position, things we need to consider before we accept such a position. One of the Pro\\u2019s we spoke of was the word Challenge. You\\u2019re going to have to enjoy a challenge as we\\u2019re going to encounter challenges every day, shoot probably every hour. I think we can look at the first Con as, we\\u2019re going to be challenged and that these jobs are going to be challenging.
\\nAnother Pro to the job is Education! We\\u2019re going to be learning new things, actually a new way of thinking of the task we use to perform every day. We\\u2019re going to be exposed to the reasons these tasks are completed the way they are and what comes next. Of course, we\\u2019ll have to be open to this education and learning. We\\u2019ve done these jobs and tasks, we were probably really good at them. Sometimes it\\u2019s difficult to learn that we were doing something wrong or there was a better way and a reason to have done it the way we\\u2019d been directed to do it. I think a few of the grandest Pro\\u2019s to accepting our first role in Leadership is the opportunity for Growth, Advancement and of course there\\u2019s the financial aspect too. When I speak of growth I\\u2019m thinking Professionally and Personally. I\\u2019ve found that once I was open to looking at things differently or seeing the bigger picture at work that I started looking at things at home a bit differently too. I found myself reanalyzing the way I felt about things and I was much more organized, maybe because I\\u2019d look at things from every angle and not just killing time once I was off work.
\\nWe mentioned Opportunity, that\\u2019s a great Pro but then there\\u2019s the Con side of opportunity knocking too. I think we have to go into leadership roles knowing that more is going to be asked of us,'