Sheena, our Ecommerce Operations Coordinator, climbing the corporate ladder in luon!
When I first gleaned the potential power of goal setting, I didn’t yet work for lululemon. After a fellow design student raved about her new pants, I decided to pick a pair up for myself, and I discovered a magical source known as the lululemon manifesto. The exact wording of this is buried behind a veil of thick fog but I do recall it made reference to goal setters in university outperforming their fellow alumni years later to a staggering degree. Needless to say, my first attempt at goal setting was anything but SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely), but it was a start in the right direction and I continued to dabble in goal setting from then on.
Two years later, I found my first full time gig at the very same place I first heard about the power of goal setting, lululemon athletica Yorkdale. After many a great experience in the store, (and my mum thought all that luon® wasn’t the best use of my student loan funding – ha!) it seemed like a great place for me to get my start in life. It was at this point I found myself surrounded by greatness and those heavily invested in my continued development. With much coaching I had a clear 10 year vision, a hedgehog and a list of goals to get me there.
I set a two-year goal of working for Holt Renfrew in inventory systems and processes and a five-year goal (in 2007) of moving to Vancouver to work for the lululemon Store Support Centre analyzing operational systems and processes. At the time, both of these seemed like a stretch and I had never even been to Vancouver.
No less than 8 months after setting these goals I was hired at Holt Renfrew as an EDI Coordinator (Electronic Data Interchange, a system that ensures accurate and timely delivery of inventory). Less than three years later, I find myself living my five-year dream as Ecommerce Operations Coordinator at lululemon athletica. The moral of the story? I’m a living example of how quickly things can come in to your life when you have a clear vision and are setting SMART goals to get you there.
Do you want to learn some of the great tools Sheena used to achieve her goals? Check out our goaltender website: http://goals.lululemon.com/
