Staffing
Scheduling
Deployment
Culture
Effective Communication
100

It is important to hire partners who reflect this.

What is Our Missions & Values?

100

This is key to partner satisfaction and helps support a work-life balance

What is Scheduling Consistency?

100

Playbuilder uses this logic to design plays based on daypart and drive thru vs cafe vs MOP.

What is Channel Mix?

100

This tool allows us to observe the experience our teams are creating throughout different day parts

What is the Store Scan?

100

This is the ability of an individual to transform and shape the opinion of others

What is influencing?

200

It takes this many weeks to have an applicant hired, trained & customer ready.

What is 5?

200

Prior to writing schedules, store managers review and follow this to determine and plan activities that need to happen

What is SM Weekly Scheduling Activities?

200

For stores to remain CSR, this strategic play should only be deployed for 2 hours and only used when communicated in Play Builder

What is GO Mode?

200

This is the environment that you create for your partners. It is the mix of your organization's leadership, values, traditions, beliefs, interactions, behaviors and attitudes that contribute to the emotional and relational environment of your workplace

What is Culture?

200

Having distractions (ie cell phones, email) put away during a conversation is part of this

What is Active Listening?

300

These tools help managers determine & assess staffing needs.

What are the Availability Assessment tool & the Partner Planning tool?

300

When accurately captured in the system, store managers can easily write schedules that create a great partner and customer experience.

What is Partner Availability?

300

This deployment principle is your plays opportunity when multiple partners are doing the same job and partners are communicating to each other about what role they should be in.

What is clarify roles?

300

This Partner Network supports and empowers the next generation of Starbucks leadership.

What is NEXT?

300

This is the first & most important step in effective communication

What is Establishing Trust?

400

Three key pieces to checking & adjusting your staffing plan are business analysis, this, and adjusting the plan.

What is Partner Feedback?

400

This is time scheduled to support non-customer related activities that enable day-to-day store operations

What is Admin?

400

DTO, Drive Bar & Warming are the only positions that must be wearing these at all times.

What are headsets?

400

These are partner-led groups that bring together partners with shared identities and experiences, along with allies. They are sponsored by the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility team to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace aligned with the Starbucks Mission & Values.

What are Partner Networks?

400

Transforming words into results is part of this form of communication

What is Communicating with Impact?

500

Too few partners result in gaps in coverage and this.

What is a negative partner & customer experience?

500

Prior to writing the schedule and with DM approval, there may be times store managers need to adjust this to support local business impacts like special events

What is Forecast?

500

This new feature allows you to adjust routines on each play to ensure your Play Builder reflects what is actually occuring on your floor.

What is flexing routines?

500

Brendan & Delma are actively involved in this partner network.

What is WIN or Women's Impact Network?

500

Engaging in open, honest, and candid conversations with others; accurately and concisely conveys key points & main messages across different settings and audiences

What is Communicating Effectively with Candor?

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