It’s getting harder to survive in a GVP role. Now with the elimination of a GVP role (mid-atlantic) that’s more work for an already strained team. Dilute the support, dilute relationships and dilute the outcome! :(
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Ivory tower appears to control the arrows more
Ivory tower we---e ? When you are only one in the store now you want me to cozy up to school officers? WTF.
The GVP position should be eliminated and shift the resources to customer facing roles in the field. GVPs serve a redundant role that costs valuable resources that cause more busy work in the form of additional emails, dog and pony shows that detract from customer focused tasks at the store level, and detached visits with campus contacts that does nothing to build campus relations. Campuses are only interested in actual service provided to students and faculty. Larger stores should devote a position solely for campus relations and smaller stores should provide more associates on the sales floor to free up store managers so they can interact with their school’s business and faculty contacts.
Reassign the fired to an underperforming store and challenge them to turn it around.minimun sixty hours a week.thoughts?
Free up some cash for some more SVP’s and EVP’s in the Ivory Tower?
Prep work for JRC divesting itself from the black hole formerly known as FHEG?
Only time will tell.