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You Serve the Front Line

As a manager in your branch, you are on the front lines for your company. You keep the business profitable, employees productive, and customers happy. Juggling these roles can be a challenge.

Your contributions play a key role in driving the success of the entire organization, and it's important you have all the tools you need to be successful. That's why we've introduced Branch Management University, NAED's newest comprehensive educational resource that focuses on tomorrow's leaders in the electrical distribution industry, branch managers.




What's In It for You?
You have a complex and significant role in your company's success. Branch Management University is a collection of tools that will help you:

  • Branch goals
  • Do your job better
  • Progress in your career
Inside, managers at branches can find options for career development, tED magazine articles on issues and current trends, and other resources that can help you on the job.

What's In It for Your Company?
Distributors need managers to possess a broad range of skills to run their operations in a profitable manner. By investing in the development of managers' skills, distributors can increase their chances for business success, while investing in the future, since many managers at branches will become tomorrow's business leaders. The economic downturn has only delayed the potential of a shortage of younger, skilled employees from coming into the industry and stepping into key roles. Educating existing leaders is more important than ever. NAED has worked with industry experts to define the skills necessary to be a successful manager in your branch.

Human Resources and Training Professionals can find:

  • Suggested curriculums and training plans from available NAED content.
  • A skills assessment for managers or candidates can take to identify their strengths and areas for development relative to the industry standard job description.
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Build Your Customer Skills

Customers are why we are in the business. Our customer can be defined as those we sell product to, our vendor partners or teammates in our own company. Working with customers requires developing relationships, staying abreast of the competitive marketplace, successfully resolving customer issues professionally and continuously developing your own product knowledge. Develop your customer skills using the links and resources provided here.

Browse the customer skills and suggested courses identified by your industry peers to build your knowledge and execute strategies that lead to:

  • Profitability
  • Growing Market Share
  • Operational Effectiveness and Productivity
  • A Skilled and Accountable Staff
Review the branch manager industry job description developed by industry branch managers, operations managers, CEOs, and human resources managers.

Test your knowledge on the "customers" category with our five-question quiz created from the skills to be a successful manager. The full assessment will help you determine training opportunities to become a well-rounded and proactive branch manager.

Check out the career development courses that will give you the edge as you work with your customers on a daily basis. Whether they be those purchasing product from your branch, your vendors or even your employees, you can develop your skills with the courses listed here.

Learn more with these NAED resources, sponsored by NAED Foundation's Channel Advantage Partnership:

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06-12 Verbal Comm
Clear, Persuasive Verbal Communication


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Maintaining Efficient, Profitable Operations

Operations keep your business running efficient and profitable. Managing your operations requires directing the warehouse's inventory levels, managing staff workflow, negotiating pricing issues with customers and vendors, and maintaining branch security. Develop your operations skills using the links and resources provided here.

Browse the operations skills and suggested courses identified by your industry peers to build your knowledge and plan and execute strategies that lead to:

  • Profitability
  • Growing Market Share
  • Operational Effectiveness and Productivity
  • A Skilled and Accountable Staff
Review the branch manager industry job description developed by industry branch managers, operations managers, CEOs, and human resources managers.

Test your knowledge on the "operations" category with our five-question quiz created from the skills to be a successful manager. The full assessment will help you determine training opportunities to become a well-rounded and proactive branch manager.

Check out the career development courses that will give you the edge as you plan and execute your branch operations.

Learn more with these NAED resources that will help you be a better branch manager:

These additional resources are sponsored by NAED Foundation's Channel Advantage Partnership:


 Featured Course Library
06-12 Proj Mgmt
Project Management
 

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Meet Your Financial Goals

Financials show you how your branch is operating compared to your goals. The financial skills you may use every day include requisition of supplies, outsourcing services, creating budgets and reviewing expenses, forecasting for your branch's future and directing your location's account receivable operations. Develop your financial skills using the links and resources provided here.

Browse the financials skills and suggested courses identified by your industry peers to build your knowledge and plan and execute strategies that lead to:

  • Profitability
  • Growing Market Share
  • Operational Effectiveness and Productivity
  • A Skilled and Accountable Staff
Review the branch manager industry job description developed by industry branch managers, operations managers, CEOs, and human resources managers.

Test your knowledge on the "financials" category with our five-question quiz created from the skills to be a successful manager. The full assessment will help you determine training opportunities to become a well-rounded and proactive branch manager.

Check out the career development courses that will give you the ability to make informed decisions based upon your branch's monthly financial statements and goals you have set for your location.

Learn more with these NAED resources that will help you be a better branch manager:



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Finance core library
Finance
 

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Motivate Employees

Employees make your branch operational and profitable. Working with employees requires you to assign and direct all work performed at your location, create a team culture, staff your branch through recruiting and interviewing candidates and developing your employees' careers with training plans. Develop your employee skills using the links and resources provided here.

Browse the employees skills and suggested courses identified by your industry peers to build your knowledge and plan and execute strategies that lead to:

  • Profitability
  • Growing Market Share
  • Operational Effectiveness and Productivity
  • A Skilled and Accountable Staff
Review the branch manager industry job description developed by industry branch managers, operations managers, CEOs, and human resources managers.

Test your knowledge on the "employees" category with our five-question quiz created from the skills to be a successful manager. The full assessment will help you determine training opportunities to become a well-rounded and proactive branch manager.

Check out the career development courses that will help you not only supervise your branch's employees but also create development plans for their career growth as they use their skills to make your branch more profitable.

Learn more with these NAED resources that will help you be a better branch manager.







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06-12 Agility Change
Managing Agility and Change Management


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Designing an efficient, safe warehouse comes down to common sense; unfortunately, being sensible is often more difficult than it sounds.

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Successfully managing inventory requires ongoing vigilance.

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To say business is built on relationships may sound cliché, learn why that cliché exists.

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Customers Room for Improvement
From bid to billing, find out why your customers say effective communication is key to profitable relationships.

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Employees Happy Employees, No Headaches
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Examination of two big issues in improving profitability: gross margin and payroll.

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