Home Depot History
Spring Playbook
Staffing
Onboarding
Training
100

This is why the HD apron is the color orange

What is the idea behind our bright orange apron was to make every associate stand out like a beacon to our customers.

100

On the first page of the 2025 Spring Playbook, this person gives a kick off to spring message. *Bonus points, what is Spring compared to?

Who is Hector Padilla? *Compared to the Super Bowl

100

This is what the Staffing Planner is used for

What is The staffing planner is a tool that allows users to gauge staffing needs by department 5-13 weeks in the future.  Updating the editable fields helps determine the true hire-in hours needed for the store.

100

This is the site where you can find all of the resources for onboarding 

What is the Leader Development Site

100

This is the name of new strategy used to train associates to promote safe lifting, prevent injury and lift equipment safety.

Safety Takes EveryONE

200

This was the year that MET was created

What is 2008

200

The associate coach program should have this quantity of associates and the group be trained by this person

What is between 10-20 lead by Store Manager

200

In the acronym "Staff Up" for success, what does the S stand for?

What is Strategize.  *Use staffing resources to strategize and align on hiring goals and staffing needs.

200

Section 2 of the I9 must be completed by the submitter within this many days of the date of hire

 What is If the Associate is unable to present acceptable documentation by the end of the fourth day of employment, they should be terminated for No Proof of Work Eligibility

200

These two tools should be issued to all new hires

What are Safety gloves and safety knife

300

On Average this is the number of aprons each associate uses in one year

What is 6

300

This is the latest time garden registers should be opened by on a daily basis

What is no later than 8am

300

these are 2 of the 5 reasons a store could rescind a job offer

what is 1.Under influence 2.Completely disengaged 3. Disrespectful behavior 4. not willing to abide by dress code 5. unable to communicate in english

300

The increased focus of the new onboarding/orientation process is this.

What is Driving a selling culture

300

This safety document should be discussed with new hires by store leadership and issued to each individual.

What is The Safety Passport

400

These are the three first names credited with the founding of Home Depot

Who are Bernie (Marcus), Arthur (Blank), and Ken (Langone)

400

These are the three separate jobs in Dimensions for D28 to help ensure stores have key coverage for key activities

What are Garden associate, Garden watering, and Garden Recovery

400

This is how many different plays are there for Lumber recovery and Garden Recovery

What is 4 for lumber and 14 for Garden

400

This is The new method for presenting orientation is packed into this format for our leaders

What is Powerpoint

400

This tool is used for associates to have focused game plans on their blueprint.  It provides specific activities that associates can select that best fit their need.

What is DART- Development Actions and Reflection Tool

500

This is Homer's dog's name

What is Carl

500

In D28 the "Write Back worksheet" is used for this

What is providing a list of BBQs that need to be staged by a garden associate for the assembler.

500

these are 3 of the 6 departments that have a preferred need for bilingual associates

what is D42, 31, 21, 22, 90 or 96

500

In 2025 new garden associates in D28 will be required to take this training within 2 weeks

What is D28 Fundamentals, housed on Pocketguide

500

These are the goals for PACE check-in completion and Past Due avg hours by associate

What is >90% and <0.75 hours per associate

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