Manndatory Listening

Manndatory Listening

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Manndatory Listening episodes

  • Enthusiastic, Not Enthusiasts: Roll Bicycle's Stuart Hunter on Adaptation & Personalization in Specialty Retail
    Roll Bicycles are made to order and completely personalized, a fact that founder Stuart Hunter claims is a major factor of success in not only his own business and industry but the entire field of specialty retail. The passionate cyclist talks through the benefits of both direct-to-consumer and retail partnerships, how to find and retain talent, and the future of the industry in our first Bike Month episode.
    25 min
  • Make the Team: Measuring, Incentivizing, and Building Your Dream Team
    Just because you have co-workers doesn't mean you have a team. Dan and Kent define a true team, the leaders who make it (we like to call those "Player-Coaches"), and the five things you have to have to build an effective, evolving team. Some of them are straightforward (like job descriptions), others are a little sexier (incentivizing performance), but they're all necessary to make the team.
    27 min
  • Recognition=Profitability: The Benefits of Consistent Branding

    Want to increase trust, access new markets, boost customer retention, and bring in more big-spenders? That's what consistent branding is all about. Learn why consistent branding matters (and why it can't be based on a single initiative) in this week's episode with VP of Marketing Emily Glaser.

    31 min
  • It's Evolutionary, Watson: Defining Your Brand Story

    Your brand story is much more than just your marketing message. VP of Marketing Emily Glaser explains how your brand story impacts all aspects of your business, from hiring to store layout, and shares applicable tips for defining and replicating your own message, including revelatory q's and queues for adaptation.

    23 min
  • A Relentless Desire to Improve: Lessons from Jakarta

    Late last year The Mann Group experienced the best kind of culture shock when we hosted Mann U with PrimaFit in Jakarta, Indonesia. The lessons we learned were many (including quite a few on the merits of good air travel), but perhaps most important was the cultural prioritization of JWD—jobs well done—in Jakarta.

    21 min
  • A Relentless Desire to Improve: Lessons from Jakarta

    Late last year The Mann Group experienced the best kind of culture shock when we hosted Mann U with PrimaFit in Jakarta, Indonesia. The lessons we learned were many (including quite a few on the merits of good air travel), but perhaps most important was the cultural prioritization of JWD—jobs well done—in Jakarta.

    21 min
  • Compensation in Specialty Retail Part I
    We have the key to passionate, knowledgeable, dedicated employees: decent compensation, and 40 hours of it. Kent and Dan outline the detrimental effects of minimum wage on the specialty retail industry, advocate for a change in payroll structure, and even talk about the other C-word: commission.
    25 min
  • Creating a Culture of Improvement with ORBiT
    We're back with Manndatory Listening Season Two, and we're starting with a subject that's near and dear to our hearts: ORBiT, or Optimized Reality Behavior Training. ORBiT is a methodology that turns leaders into influencers and employees into eager students—listen in to learn how (and why it matters).
    28 min
  • Sounds Good: Brian Hawkins on Music in Retail

    The music retailers play sets the scene for customer's interactions, including their purchasing decisions (did you know that 30-40% of folks surveyed would negatively respond—ie, leave—a store with no music?). We sat down with Brian Hawkins of Fixture Lab to discuss the importance—and legalities—of your preferred tunes.

    35 min

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