Michelle Talbott Email & Phone Number

United States

Ames, Iowa, United States

Lake City, Iowa, United States

Lake City, Iowa

Lytton, Iowa

Store 0087 Fort Dodge Iowa

As General Manager at Kum & Go I performed the following on a daily basis:*Recruit, hire, train and develop the best personnel.*Coach and develop a successful team of co-workers that consistently surpass customers’ needs with excellent service. *Collaborate with District Supervisor to diagnose and solve issues. *Identify trends and develop targets for the betterment of the organization.*Provide co-workers with knowledge and information in a caring and charismatic environment. *Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing company standards.*Assess store condition and customer service levels.*Manage controllable cost by educating staff on procedures for reducing inventory shrink, managing salary, cash, margin objectives and day-to-day operations expenses.*Exhibit the ability to be an active listener. Responding appropriately through words and actions.*Maximize store sales with merchandise programs, schematics, point-of-sale materials, and plus selling programs.*Use windows based PC systems, including Microsoft Office, Excel and Outlook for e-mail.

Rockwell City Iowa And Ankeny Iowa

Customer Service, Ordering, Inventory Management, Associate Training.

Keep production records, determine yields, track supply inventory and make orders, work with employees to maintain proper sanitary standards, work with production to maintain a quality product, work with production manager on scheduling of runs, maintain quality control records, work with USDA inspector to ensure regulations are met.

Coordinating the efforts of the statewide board of directors for Barnabas Uplift in Western Iowa. Responsible to the Bishop of the ELCA-Western Iowa Synod. Working with pastors and lay leaders to bring job training, access to health care, income tax assistance and other programming to the area.

Graduate assistant for the Turkish Student Teacher Internship Program, I worked closely with the program coordinator in organizing seminars, and school visits for the visiting students from Turkey. I also worked closely with the visiting students in questions they had about life in Iowa, preparing for their Turkish Student Days presentation and transported a group daily from Ames to Ballard High School.