core skills1 Jul 2015 15:18
Well another important time in the Speedy family, it looks like this company will never learn. I use to be a happy, Conscientious and passionate employee but over the years was pushed to look for new employment through Speedy's worse failure, which is middle management.
Over the years this company has had good senior group people with very passionate and viable ideals but these have all been failed by the middle senior management such as area MD,s and sales directors. Yes there are always good ones but where you need the strong and honest management, such as large cities and affluent sectors there is weak management and NOT strong leaders.
Another failure in this company is the parting of what made this company in the early years, customer relationships and retention. In my years of lower management I fought many decisions which weakened local relationships and just concentrated on the top 100 construction based companies, i.e putting most of resources (kit,personell etc) to them and strangling the local businesses. Speedy can get back to where they should be with a big sweep of the dinosaur management and go back concentrating on building relationships with localised customers which would give them the foundations to work up from.