Retail Leadership with Steve Worthy
Retail leadership isn’t what it used to be — and neither are you.
After 30+ years of navigating the realities of store floors, boardrooms, restructures, and reinventions, I’ve learned this: the gap between what retail leaders need to grow and what companies actually provide is wider than ever. Promotions don’t come with clarity. Expectations rise, but context disappears. And while the metrics may shift, the pressure never does.
This podcast is for the retail leader who's already proven themselves — and still wants more.
This podcast is for the experienced retail leader who wants more — not more work, but more direction, more insight, and more impact.
I'm Steve Worthy — retail executive coach and founder of Worthy Retail Global. I’ve coached and developed thousands of leaders over three decades, and I created this podcast to give you the straight, strategic guidance I wish I had earlier in my career.
You’ve earned your position. Now let’s make sure you lead like it.
Retail Leadership with Steve Worthy
THE LAW OF EXPLOSIVE GROWTH
As a retail leader, your success is determined by the relationships you cultivate and encircle yourself with. So, how do you ensure that you are surrounded by the right people?
Let's talk about the Law of Explosive Growth in this episode and learn how to grow, develop, export, and even retain great talent and future leaders from your own team.
Stay tuned!
Key Highlights
[00:01] A leader is only as good as whom they surround themselves with
[00:49] The concept of Explosive Growth
[04:37] Grow, develop, and export great talent
[05:16] It’s not about followers; it’s about growing leaders
[10:00] The first person that you need to learn how to lead is yourself.
[12:00] If you grow a team, your organization can also experience growth.
[15:33] If you develop leaders, your organization can achieve explosive growth.
[17:55] How to retain the leaders that you hire.
[20:48] What does great talent look like?
Notable Quotes
● Explosive growth is the concept and idea of taking yourself from where you are to where you want to be times x.
● The first person that you need to learn how to lead is yourself. And the most difficult person to lead is going to be yourself because you are fighting against everything inside of you that wants to then wants to do something different.
● When you want to experience explosive growth, you have to have a burning desire inside to keep and retain the great talent that you hire and make sure that you see them winning on a consistent basis.
● If you are consistent with your methodology for hiring people, for understanding what that looks like, then I think it's important that your team has an understanding of that as well.
● The worst thing that you can do is to not see that you need to develop great leaders so that you can have consistent explosive growth wherever you go.
● The areas of your weakness as a leader can become exploited if you don't take the time to realize what they are; if you don't take the time to assess who you are, where you are, and where you want to go.
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