Handleman Company
Handleman Company is one of the world's largest category managers and distributors
of prerecorded music and other entertainment products to leading retailers in the
United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Their talented people manage a broad
assortment to optimize sales in more than 4,000 retail stores. Over the years,
Handleman and it's various divisions have successfully transformed itself into
one of the leading supply chain distributors and category managers for it's
customers like Wal-Mart, Kmart, Best Buy, and Circuit City. Handleman continues
to grow through diversification and strategic transactions as the entertainment
product supply chain and its customer needs change.
LeadFirst first began providing leadership development training to Handleman
Company in August, 2001. Over the last five years, LeadFirst has conducted nine
sessions of Perspective On Leadership and seven
follow-up sessions of Leading In a Changing Environment.
In that time 160 Handleman executives have experienced the LeadFirst's leader
development process.
Following is a sampling of participant feedback:
Mark Albrecht, Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Organizational Development states:
"Succinct with our values of Honesty and Integrity, Accountability, Continuous Learning and Improvement and Focus on our Stakeholders, Handleman has invested in LEADFIRST as a partner in developing strategic core competencies in the current and future leaders of our company. We wish to become the Indispensable Link in the supply chain, build strength through diversity and to create customers for our customers. This requires strong leaders. We are very pleased with LeadFirst as a strategic partner to help us achieve our leadership development goals."
"The LSI (Leadership Styles Inventory) of Perspective On Leadership was the most useful part of the class. My job role is fairly unusual as an accountant in a sales department and there was a bit of a perception gap between how I and my colleagues saw myself and I didn't always understand where they were coming from. The leadership profiles helped me to understand my own behaviors and to better empathize with their styles which are quite different."
"Succinct with our values of Honesty and Integrity, Accountability, Continuous Learning and Improvement and Focus on our Stakeholders, Handleman has invested in LEADFIRST as a partner in developing strategic core competencies in the current and future leaders of our company. We wish to become the Indispensable Link in the supply chain, build strength through diversity and to create customers for our customers. This requires strong leaders. We are very pleased with LeadFirst as a strategic partner to help us achieve our leadership development goals."
"The LSI (Leadership Styles Inventory) of Perspective On Leadership was the most useful part of the class. My job role is fairly unusual as an accountant in a sales department and there was a bit of a perception gap between how I and my colleagues saw myself and I didn't always understand where they were coming from. The leadership profiles helped me to understand my own behaviors and to better empathize with their styles which are quite different."
