I have heard about this and I believe that is the plan, however, I do not believe that they will be able to realize that plan:
Latest rumor is walmart plans to reduce salary managers againover the course of the next few years. They're training team leads to cover everything.
What do you think?
To be a bit fair, most, if not all of these "team leads" had any idea what they were getting into when they accepted the job.
Still, other than 2 at my old store, maybe 3... are competent. The rest have no freaking idea what they are doing and in NO way are leaders. They just saw a raise and some sort of clout dangling in front of their eyes. Show me a 21 year old "team leader" that can actually lead a team of people that have been there many years, know how most things work, and can garner any kind of respect. All stores I'm aware of are hating this new system, it really is a joke. The biggest mistake walmart made was getting rid of the dept. manager position because no one actually owns anything and therefore doesn't give much of a cluck anymore.
I hope not because the these leads are a joke.
Keep in mind that even if this happens (reduce amount of coaches or get rid of that spot) this doesn’t mean coaches who are good workers won’t have options in Walmart.
Coaches were told at my store to have a total store mentality (as SL is their next step in promotion) Not sure TLs are learning the entire store- more focused on their own dept. But they could always start cross training them..
Not heard anything concrete but that would be challenging.. but if history is any indicator I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried it. Where did you hear this rumor? Our MM said coaching was a 5 year stint and then they look for coaches to apply to store leads. Store lead is a 18-24 month stint to get ready for SM. Just make sure you are putting money away for a rainy day..