Thrive Together
At Thompson Thrift, we are committed to our team members' education, training, and development. We support and provide options for personal and professional growth that allow our team members to continue to grow, thrive, and create new opportunities for themselves and their families.
Thrive Together
Current benefits
You play an important role in our success. That’s why we strive to provide you with a benefits program that rewards you for the hard work and dedication you put forth every day. Our benefits are designed to positively impact you and your family at every stage of life.
Professional Development
The IU Kelley School of Business Frontline Leadership program is a highly interactive two-day course that focuses on practical leadership and management skills. During the course, our team members gain knowledge and experience about understanding communication styles, assessing complex situations, motivating other team members, providing effective performance feedback, and much more. It is designed to increase your effectiveness as a manager and impart practical skills.
Contact Alicia Burris, Training & Development Manager, for more information.
The IU Kelley School of Business Frontline Leadership program is a highly interactive two-day course that focuses on practical leadership and management skills. During the course, our team members gain knowledge and experience about understanding communication styles, assessing complex situations, motivating other team members, providing effective performance feedback, and much more. It is designed to increase your effectiveness as a manager and impart practical skills.
Contact Alicia Burris, Training & Development Manager or Maddy Hensley, Training Coordinator, for more information.
Thompson Thrift offers opportunities for additional certifications for team members seeking professional development. This includes (but not limited to), NALP, CAM, EPA, CPO certifications.
Personal Growth
Thompson Thrift utilizes the Predictive Index for all new team members to determine how different individuals and teams can work together efficiently. Our Training and Leadership Development team hosts regular trainings for team members to work through how their behaviors can maximize effectiveness, productivity, and job satisfaction within their team.
Contact Training & Development for additional information.
Each year, all Thompson Thrift team members receive a Leadership Evaluation that provides feedback and assesses seven key indicators, such as leadership performance, leadership potential, technical skills, and more. The objective of the annual evaluation is to create an effective and comprehensive leadership development plan for every team member.
Contact Alicia Burris, Training & Development Manager or Maddy Hensley, Training Coordinator for more information.
The 360 Review and Coaching process allows direct reports, supervisors, and peers to rate a specific team member's work, management style, interaction with team members, emotional intelligence and more. Through this rating system, team members get direct feedback from their supervisors and others they work with daily to advance their career development. Each team member is assigned an internal 360 coach to guide them through a 3-step process to identify key takeaways and next steps.
Contact Alicia Burris, Training & Development Manager for more information.
Career Advancement
Our Future Managers cohort is a 1-year program for high potential individual contributors. This program works to advance our team members' leadership and management skills by providing trainings from subject matter experts and action learning projects to reinforce and apply learning. Participants are nominated by their supervisors to participate in this program.
Contact Alicia Burris, Training & Development Manager or Maddy Hensley, Training Coordinator for more information.
Thompson Thrift's Professional Growth Series is a quarterly program facilitated by both internal and external trainers that help provide team members with a variety of leadership development topics based on evaluation results from the previous year.
Contact Alicia Burris, Training & Development Manager or Maddy Hensley, Training Coordinator for more information.
Thompson Thrift provides our community management teams with a hospitality training, which is designed to enhance skills that would provide 5-star service and increase our online reputation rating. This training focuses on first impressions, The LEARN, model, and the art of service recovery.
Contact Gina Maurer, Training Coordinator for more information.
With Thompson Thrift’s emphasis on coaching and servant leadership, we require all managers to host regular 1on1 meetings with their direct reports to provide ongoing support.
Thompson Thrift hosts regular Performance Check-In's with team members and their managers to provide team members with timely feedback, direction, and to discuss leadership development goals.
Contact Training & Development for additional information.
Educational Opportunities
Thompson Thrift offers educational assistance and tuition reimbursement to team members with high potential and promotability within our company.
Thompson Thrift provides every team member access to LinkedIn Learning library that provides over 16,000 courses on a wide variety of personal and professional development topics. Team members can access this content through LinkedIn Learning as well as through an integration with our learning and talent management system. This allows our team members increased autonomy in their education, professional development, and has led to substantial upskilling and reskilling.
Contact Maddy Hensley, Training Coordinator for more information.
Thompson Thrift utilizes Bridge as our learning and talent management system. Bridge allows team members to track 1on1 conversations with their supervisors and set operational and leadership goals that align with their team and organizational goals. Bridge provides resources to assist our team members with accomplishing their goals, including self-directed multimedia trainings and various additional resources to supplement the course.
Contact Alicia Burris, Training & Development Manager or Maddy Hensley, Training Coordinator for more information.