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They direct, coordinate and monitor all branch operations including sales, warehouse, logistics, inventory, finances, facility maintenance, and personnel development activities.\nDecision Making & Strategic Decision Making\nRecognizes issues, problems, or opportunities and determines action needed.\nGathers and organizes information - Identifies the need for, collects, and organizes information to better understand problems, opportunities; compares and combines information to identify underlying issues.\nInterprets and analyzes information - Integrates information from a variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships.\nGenerates alternatives - Creates relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes.\nChooses appropriate action - Formulates clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications, especially the impact on a company’s financial picture; chooses an effective option.\nCommits to action - Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time; monitors results and makes adjustments as needed. Accountability built in to ensure success. Delegates effectively.\nDelegating Responsibility & Follow-Up\nShares appropriate responsibilities - Allocates decision-making authority and/or task responsibility in appropriate areas to appropriate individuals.\nClearly defines parameters - Sets guidelines of delegated responsibility, including decision-making authority and any required actions, constraints, or deadlines. Able to delegate both routine and important tasks.\nProvides support without removing responsibility - Suggests resources and provides assistance or coaching as needed; expresses confidence in the individual. Trusts people to perform.\nStays informed - Establishes appropriate procedures to keep informed of issues and results in areas of shared responsibility.\nCommunicates time frames - Builds due dates into assignments and task delegations; effectively communicates milestones and expected results. \nGathers appropriate information - Asks questions to obtain relevant \ninformation; convenes meetings to review progress and share information; gets feedback on results from those directly involved. Provides needed resources.\nEvaluates results - Meets formally with peers, associates, and management to review the results of an assignment, project, or delegated task.\nPlanning And Organizing\nPrioritizes - Identifies more critical and less critical activities and assignments; adjusts priorities when appropriate.\nEstablishes S.M.A.R.T. goals in line with company goals and values. Implements action plans with timelines with deliverables and measure results.\nDetermines tasks and resources - Determines project or assignment requirements by breaking them down into tasks and identifying types of equipment, materials, and people needed.\nSchedules - Allocates appropriate amounts of time for completing work, while avoiding scheduling conflicts and overruns; develops timelines and milestones for goals and projects.\nLeverages resources - Identifies and takes advantage of available resources.\nStays focused - Understands the importance of time management in order to effectively use time and prevent irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with work completion.\nAccountability - Holds self and others accountable for deadlines, assignments, etc.\nCommunication - Keeps team up-to-date on progress, milestones, assignments, etc.\nCommunication\nOrganizes the communication - Clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence.\nMaintains audience attention - Keeps the audience engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection.\nAdjusts to the audience - Frames message in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience.\nEnsures understanding - Seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding.\nAdheres to accepted conventions - Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used.\nComprehends communication from others - Attends to messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately.\nAbility to sell - Presents ideas and information to successfully influence the audience to accept and embrace mutual outcomes.\nActively develops and promotes effective communication skills in others in the organization.\nMakes complex ideas or situations clear, simple and understandable. Recognizes patterns, sees discrepancies, missing pieces and trends.\nBuilding Trust & Gaining Commitment\nOpens discussions effectively - Describes expectations, goals, requests, or future states in a way that provides clarity and excites interest; shares thoughts, feelings, and rationale so that others understand personal positions.\nDevelops ideas - Presents own ideas; seeks and develops suggestions of others; makes procedural suggestions. \nFacilitates agreement - Uses appropriate influence strategies to gain genuine agreement; persists by using different approaches as needed to gain commitment.\nCloses discussions with clear summaries - Summarizes information and outcomes of discussions and establishes next steps if needed. Ensures that the situation/issue at hand is understood.\nDemonstrates honesty and integrity and keeps commitments.\nBuilds relationships - Learns the value of relationships and views building relationships as a critical success tool.\nTeam player - Builds trust by developing and nurturing a team environment; treats people with dignity, respect, and fairness; gives proper credit to others; stands up for deserving others and their ideas even in the face of resistance or challenge.\nCoaching & Developing Others\nClarifies expected behaviors, knowledge, and level of proficiency by seeking and giving information and checking for understanding. \nExplains and demonstrates - Provides instruction, positive models, and opportunities for observation in order to help others develop skills; encourages questions to ensure understanding.\nEstablishes good interpersonal relationships - Helps people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions.\nCollaboratively establishes development goals and plans - Works with individuals to identify areas for development, understands need for improvement, and jointly sets specific development goals.\nCreates a learning environment - Secures resources required to support development efforts; ensures that opportunities for advancement are available; offers assistance to help individuals overcome obstacles to learning.\nMonitors progress - Gives individuals’ specific feedback on their performance related to established goals; highlights key positive and negative performance issues; adjusts plans to ensure development.\nLeads by example - Models the behaviors, knowledge and practices and demonstrates the characteristics that are expected of the individual who is being coached.\nManaging Conflict\nClarifies the current situation - Collects information from relevant sources to understand the conflict. Documents outcomes or implications as needed.\nRemains open to all sides - Objectively views the conflict from all sides. Addresses conflict as it arises, and approaches conflict as an opportunity.\nSkilled at focused listening - Practices attentive and active listening. Accurately restates the opinions of others even when he/she disagrees. \nStays focused on resolution - Stays focused on resolving the conflict and avoid personal issues and attacks. Establishes a clear and compelling rationale for resolving the conflict.\nInitiates action - Takes positive action to resolve the conflict immediately to avoid escalation, address the issue, dissipate the conflict, and maintain the relationship.\nCloses discussions with clear summaries - Summarizes to ensure that all are aware of agreements and required actions.\nFollow up - Monitors progress of situations and keeps team on track.\nTechnical / Professional Skills and Knowledge\nDemonstrates a solid understanding of and successfully manages the SALES / MARKETING function within the branch.\nDemonstrates a solid understanding of and successfully manages the PURCHASING / INVENTORY function within the branch.\nDemonstrates a solid understanding of and successfully manages the WAREHOUSE function within the branch.\nDemonstrates a solid understanding of and successfully manages the FINANCE / CREDIT function within the branch.\nDemonstrates a solid understanding of and successfully enforces the HR /TALENT function within the branch.\nQuality Orientation\nFollows procedures - Accurately and carefully follows established procedures for completing work tasks.\nEnsures high-quality output - Oversees personal and team job processes, tasks, and work products to ensure freedom from errors, omissions, or defects.\nTakes action - Initiates action to correct quality problems and notifies others of quality issues as appropriate.\nPerform other duties as assigned. 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