Career Growth
This document helps outline your professional goals and development opportunities.
What is a development plan?
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What is a blue print?
This skill involves listening, speaking, and writing effectively.
What is communication?
This department helps move products from vendors to distribution centers and stores.
What is Supply Chain?
Working together to achieve a common goal.
What is teamwork?
Whether in a store, distribution center, call center, or corporate office, all Home Depot associates are expected to put this first.
What is the Customer? 🧡
A task or assignment that challenges you to learn new skills outside your normal responsibilities.
What is a stretch assignment?
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What is a Special project?
Prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines are examples of this skill.
What is time management?
This team works with stores and customers to resolve complex escalations.
What is Executive Escalations?
Teaching a team member a process or skill.
What is training?
True or False
Home Depot founders once intentionally created forklift skid marks on store floors to make new stores look more authentic.
What is True?
To make the brand-new stores feel like authentic, bustling industrial warehouses, Marcus and Arthur used to drive forklifts around the empty aisles after closing and slam on the brakes to leave black tire skid marks on the concrete. 🚜
Learning by observing someone in a different role.
What is job shadowing?
The ability to remain calm and find solutions during challenging situations.
What is problem-solving?
This position analyzes reporting and workforce trends to help maintain staffing levels.
What is a Workforce Management Analyst?
Receiving information about your performance to help improve.
What is feedback?
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What is a coaching?
True or False
There is a exclusive Home Depot store in Fayetteville, Georgia that is closed to the public and serves only movie and television production crews.
True ✅
A person who provides guidance and advice to help support your professional growth.
What is a mentor?
Volunteering for special projects can help build this.
What is experience?
This can help identify strengths, opportunities, and long-term goals.
What is self-assessment?
Treating others with kindness, dignity, and consideration.
What is Respect?
This furry "associate" lived inside a South Carolina Home Depot for 13 years, greeting customers and relaxing in the Garden department.
Who is Depot the cat? 🐱
The ability to adapt, learn, and improve through challenges and feedback.
What is a growth mindset?
Taking action without being told what to do.
What is Initiative?
This leader oversees multiple supervisors and teams to achieve business goals.
What is an Operations Manager?
Pursuing ongoing professional education.
What is Continuous Improvement?
Home Depot's mascot is this hardworking construction-themed character.
Who is Homer D. Poe?