FlashPoint 2.0 is a customizable 1-day program designed to meet Suppliers' most pressing needs in today's market, focusing on the 3 Core Responsibilities of a Team Leader: Team, Customer, and Company.

Supplier Community

Since 2005, through our direct work with Walmart Suppliers, we’ve recognized specific characteristics of Supplier Teams that differentiate you from other customer segments we engage.

The Soderquist Center is a uniquely positioned resource for teams like yours who want to excel in their overall and individual leadership performance.

Why work with us?

No matter where your Supplier Team is in the development process, this new program will challenge and strengthen how you work together - as a team, for your customer, and with your company.

Team: Data on factors for success

5 key traits of successful supplier team leaders:

1. Be Physically Energetic – To bring emphasis on direct action to meet most issues and seek a similar approach from others.
2. Be Direct and Straightforward, getting to the point both written and verbal
3. Relate well to people and enjoy dealing with others in larger group
4. Present issues in terms of logic
5. Prefer to foster a team approach rather than individual competitiveness

So how does this information from The Soderquist Center benefit me and my team? Our facilitators can show you how this:

• Impacts how you hire talent for your team.
• Gives you the ability to identify and develop key success factors as strengths
• Helps you identify gaps to further develop and improve

Customer: Global Mindset

4 qualities that will help you develop a Global Mindset:

1. Curiosity about the world and a commitment to understanding how it works.
2. An explicit and self-conscious articulation of your current mindset.
3. Exposure to diversity and novelty.
4. A disciplined attempt to integrate what you learn about cultures and markets.

So how does The Soderquist Center help me develop a Global Mindset for myself and my team?

• Helps identify new brand opportunities
• Helps you to be more successful leading from afar
• Teaches you how to develop a global strategic plan
• Teaches you how to develop your structure to support your global customer 

Company: Model for Sustained Execution

Key touchpoints using our Model for Sustained Execution:

• Making sure everyone is supportive with the measures that the team is being held accountable for both at the Home Company and the customer.
• Is there alignment with the key objectives for the work to be accomplished from the home company with the customer?
• Does the customer team have the authority to execute the plans agreed by the home company?
• Do the Strategic plans meet the vision of the home company and are they supported by the customer?

So how does The Soderquist Center help my team achieve alignment and support from our home company?

• Helps you identify key touchpoint elements that are misaligned.
• Creates solutions for your customer teams to secure alignment your home company.
• Helps prioritize which touchpoints are most important to secure alignment with your home company and customer.