The New Guy Part 17: Goals and New Direction

I had some milestones this month, 15 years of blogging, 9 years with #imjustdrew. I took a well deserved 10 days off. 

That said, I reevaluated myself before my time off and briefly during it. Here are my May goals that I will revisit for June. 

Develop my supervisor/PA to be an AM

Improve my safety scores by talking to all of my associates and ensuring they are answering the questions honestly 

Keep things as simple as possible 

Continue on Project #RiseUp to increase rates and decrease inactive time

Keep SSD running smoothly

Assist the floor when I can

Hold AMs accountable when they're not helping during my operation 

Learn more on gatekeeping and running 

Have 2 Dragonflys submitted daily 

Continue to work on zone callouts daily

Launch Arabs for Amazon by June

I'm about to start another series which will probably be "Sessions at 260 Out By The Deck" or something of that nature. 

The New Guy Part 16

I now end an up and down March and begin April with optimism, knowledge gaps closed, lessons learned and a greater plan. 

Myself and my counterparts have been reading "From Good To Great". The main takeaways from the last chapter was to have a disciplined staff and make a stop-doing list instead of a to-do list.

Here's my stop-doing list: .

Working 12 hours every shift

Skipping meals and snacks

Complaining and making excuses

Neglecting admin and certain tasks until the end

Allowing any disrespect from FLEX drivers or associates 

Failing to update my blog and Twitter

Make clear expectations to the team for stowdown transition, support during PSLO and my role in crash sorts at the end

Doing it all myself instead of delegating 

Just listening: provide feedback

Not having a clear plan from the past, checklist, etc

Neglecting what metrics are needed to focus on

Start doing: 

Focus on DPO routes

Picklist to picklist times 

Follow up with other sites for best practices.

Shadow the best stower and the lower stower.

Have someone for EOS Watchtower daily.

Utilize accommodations associates better 

Dive deeper into high picklist times 

STU/ADAPT long breaks and long staging times. 

Ensure LP2 has enough carts

Ensure enough of every device. 

Follow up with ACES

Have daily, weekly pick contests.

Get safety callouts clear 

Have as many Dragonfly entries as possible and close them in real time

It's time to get this shift to the top performance and cost wise! #StepByStep