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Build a Bench: Cultivating Retail Prospects

Build a Bench: Cultivating Retail Prospects

Learn how to build and maintain a solid bench list of candidates for store managers in luxury fashion during this interactive coaching session, where you’ll gain strategies for identifying, developing, and tracking potential leaders, ensuring long-term success for your store.

$249.00

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Session Summary:

In the dynamic world of luxury fashion, ensuring the continuity of your store’s leadership is crucial for long-term success. Our interactive session, “Building a Solid Bench List of Candidates for Store Managers in Luxury Fashion,” is specifically designed to empower you in this domain.

This comprehensive 60-minute coaching session will guide you on how to create, maintain, and make the most of your bench list – a crucial tool for succession planning in your luxury fashion store. Starting with a clear understanding of why a strong bench list is indispensable, we’ll then provide concrete strategies for identifying promising candidates, both within and outside your organization. We’ll highlight the characteristics to look out for in these potential leaders, to ensure they align with the demanding expectations of the luxury fashion world.

Moreover, we understand that identifying potential talent is only half the battle. Therefore, a significant portion of the session will focus on effectively developing these candidates. We will discuss coaching, mentoring, and strategies for providing growth opportunities within your store, as well as addressing any skill gaps or lack of experience. 

Lastly, we’ll guide you through the process of regularly reviewing and updating your bench list, tracking candidates’ development, and dealing with inevitable changes, such as promotions and turnovers. We will wrap up the session with a Q&A segment, addressing any questions or concerns and summarizing the key points discussed.

As a valuable takeaway from this session, we’ll provide you with our comprehensive “Bench List Development Guide.” This guide will not only reiterate the importance of having a strong bench list and how to spot talent, but also provide detailed strategies for nurturing this talent. It includes guidelines for managing your bench list, as well as an action plan template, allowing you to directly apply what you’ve learned during the session to your store’s context.

Join us in this engaging session and empower yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to build a robust bench list, securing your store’s leadership for the future. Let us help you in sculpting tomorrow’s leaders in luxury fashion today.

01

Introduction

  • Welcome and Overview
  • Objectives of the session

02

Understanding the Importance of a Solid Bench List (10 minutes)

  • Discussion on the importance of succession planning
  • How a strong bench list contributes to the store’s success

03

Identifying Potential Candidates (15 minutes)

  • Recognizing talent within the organization
  • External recruitment: Where and how to find potential candidates
  • Characteristics to look for in potential candidates

04

Developing Potential Candidates (15 minutes)

  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Providing opportunities for growth and development within the store.
  • Addressing gaps in skills or experience

05

Evaluating and Updating the Bench List (10 minutes)

  • Regularly reviewing and updating the bench list
  • Keeping track of candidates’ development and readiness
  • Dealing with changes: promotions, turnovers, etc.

06

Q&A and Wrap-Up (5 minutes)

  • Addressing any questions or concerns from the session
  • Summary of key points and next steps

Takeaway Document

Bench List Development Guide

Purpose of a Bench List

  • This section will underscore the importance of having a strong bench list and the role it plays in the success of a luxury fashion store.

Identifying Potential Candidates

  • This section provides guidelines on how to spot talent, both internally and externally, and the key characteristics to look for in potential candidates.

Developing Potential Candidates

  • This part will detail strategies for nurturing talent, including coaching and mentoring strategies, and offering opportunities for growth within the store.

Evaluating and Updating the Bench List

  • Guidelines on how often to review and update the bench list, how to track candidate development, and how to handle changes such as promotions or turnover.

Resources

  • This section might include links to further reading or recommended tools for managing a bench list.

Action Plan Template

  • This would be a practical tool that managers can use to plan how they will identify, develop, and track potential candidates for their bench list.

Packages

2 Sessions

Custom Selection
$449
00
  • 1 hour-long session
  • Select from our most popular sessions
  • Session recap summary for future reference
  • 7 day email support

5 sessions

Custom Selection
$999
00
  • 1 hour-long session
  • Select from our most popular sessions
  • Session recap summary for future reference
  • 7 day email support

Career Pivot

Follow Your Passion
$672
30
  • Strategic Career Pivot in Luxury Fashion
  • Guide: Luxury Fashion Job Searching
  • Mastering Fashion Job Interviews

Job Search

For Active Job Seekers
$896
40
  • Guide: Luxury Fashion Job Searching
  • LinkedIn Masterclass for Luxury Fashion Careers
  • Networking Mastery: Tactics for Fashion Managers
  • Mastering Fashion Job Interviews

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Develop Your Skills
$672
30
  • Luxury Retail Leadership: Path to Excellence
  • Executive Visit Mastery: Lead with Excellence
  • Crafting Success: Luxury Fashion Business Plan Mastery
  • Sales, Clienteling, KPI Mastery
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Our Resume Team

Kristin Horner

Kristin is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) with over 20 years of experience in fashion retail management and human resources, including time with Prada, Coach, Stella McCartney, and Etro. As an experienced industry professional she knows first hand what industry employers look for in candidate resumes. Kristin's partnership will ensure your profile stands out from the crowd and helps convert your applications to more interviews.

Our Coaching Team

Kristin Horner

Kristin is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) with over 20 years of experience in fashion retail management and human resources, including time with Prada, Coach, Stella McCartney, and Etro. As an experienced industry professional she knows first hand what industry employers look for in candidate resumes. Kristin's partnership will ensure your profile stands out from the crowd and helps convert your applications to more interviews.

William Brobston

William Brobston spent 15 years in the luxury retail industry, holding leadership roles with European and American luxury apparel & fine jewelry brands. Recognizing the growing need for fashion management, leadership, and recruitment solutions, in 2017 William launched Brobston Group. Since inception, the firm has worked with world renowned clients in the global fashion industry.