Can’t believe we are well and truly over the half way mark of the year already.
A lot has changed in just 2 months! Our Cambridge management team has changed slightly, with our night fill team leader being offered a role in a bigger store within Hamilton, so the challenge was set to employ a new one who would fit well within the Cambridge team, and strive for results as we do so well. After a couple of weeks we found her and it is good to be back to a full team again.

We rounded out the financial year (August 1st to July 31st) with some results as a store to be proud of. Whilst we don’t know where we ranked on the scorecard year to date just quite yet, if our result of 6th in the company at the end of June is anything to go by, we are going to be sitting in a good spot.
This month in July I received some big news. By the middle of August I will be starting at the other end of the country in Timaru, as their assistant store manager. I will be leaving a great team and environment behind earlier than anticipated, but am looking forward not only to moving back down to Canterbury and my original region, but working in a newly refitted, extra warehouse and all the challenges that will no doubt come with it.

The last couple of weeks have been hectic, as I have had to wrap up life as I know it in the Waikato including packing up my gear, and coordinating my travel and relocation plans to Timaru.
18 months ago when I ventured north for the SMDP if you had of told me that I would be sad at the thought of leaving the Waikato, I would have laughed at you. I have met some amazing people here, learnt a lot about and experienced a whole new side to the business I didn’t know existed. I feel like I have really grown as a leader and am a complete different person to when I was a first appointment team leader in Christchurch a year and a half ago.

This weekend coming we are having our regional conference. A time that team members, managers, and partners get together for a day and night to celebrate and reward what the team have given and achieved in the last year. It is always a great weekend, and I’m looking forward to being apart of the region 6 manager’s skit!
As soon as conference is over, the moving truck would have been and gone, and I will be in the car on a massive road trip to start my new role in Timaru within a few days.

In my next blog I look forward to sharing not just how our regional conference went, but how my first few weeks in my new role went!