Community: Broderick

The only community that I am part of is my work community. I work at Target, in the last week I have learned that this community would be considered Quasi-Official. To me our store is my community and it has all four different types of community leaders, Official leaders of our community would have to be our ETL's (executive team leads) they must graduate from Target Business School before acquiring this role. This helps them to be more in-tune with the business aspect of the store, and less knowledgeable of how the store actually runs, which in turn reflects the notion that official leaders may seem disconnected with the daily lives of the actual community members. ETLS could also be considered the connectors of our community because ETLS are only allotted 2 years at each store, before they are transferred to another location, this helps them to bring new ideas to different stores. ETLS are also very in-tune with other stores in our district which allow us to know how these communities are solving similar problems/obstacles that we may be facing. The next leader is a civic leader, at our store this would be our team leads, the team leads work directly under the ETLS and directly above the team members, this helps them to know the interests and views of the team, but also what the official leaders expect of them, team leads also could be considered the catalysts of the community because they are most knowledgeable about how the store runs.
The aspirations of the Target community is to run our store in the most efficient and cost effective way as possible, while some of the members of the community may not have such strong passion or loyalty for the business, overall as a store, I think every one is really trying to do their best work to help themselves in the future (by having to do less work later) or to help the store succeed.
There are several civic places in our community, the two best examples would have to be at our huddles, and our chat sessions. Huddle is once a day for each team in the store, at huddle any member of the community has the opportunity to update the rest of the team on projects they may be working on, or they can also recognize other team members for something that they did. Chat sessions are once a month, at chat sessions team members have the opportunity to talk to the STO (store team lead) and the HR rep about issues they are having with the way the store is being run.
Most of the concerns that are talked about within the community are about how to keep our store running effectively, a lot of times people raise concerns about working conditions, (like temperature, lack of water fountains, cleanliness, and work-load) people also raise many concerns about how target may be effecting their personal lives and how these problems could be fixed.
The people in our community are kind of cliquey, each team in store sticks to themselves and they hold their specific team as most important, each team is like a family. The people who work on the same teams talk to each other with high regard and respect, but treat the people on other teams of the store as outsiders.
A lot of the people in the Target community have worked there since it opened, which in a right makes the way things have been done in the past directly effect how it will be done in the future, the fact that there are so many people that were part of the history of the store help shape it into something better. In our store we have just received a new STO, so it is defiantly helpful to have new and old ideas working with each other to improve the quality of the lives of people who are part of the community.