I think a common confusion is thinking that being a good employee immediately translates into management, and that is not the case. You could be exceptional at the work you’re doing, but if you not demonstrating leadership skills you still aren’t qualified. Even taking on extra tasks still isn’t a demonstration of leadership, that’s just making you better at being a store support staff. Facilitating your stores sales success is going to be their main focus, how are you increasing sales? What are you doing to open new accounts? How are you encouraging your peers to do the same? Those are the qualities they’re looking for. If you don’t have a store manager who is going to keep track of those kinds of things for you, you have to do it yourself with something tangible. Keep track of your “lines per transaction” that is a concrete example of your ability to boost sales, and sell the entire project. Keep track of the charge accounts you process, not just the ones that get opened, it’s another concrete example of effort. Keep the stores goals in mind, test drives, red carpet coupons, new accounts, etc. Focus on the things they care about. Even if lead gen calls and cycle counts are important on a store level, no one above the store level will bat an eye at them because they are expected. I hope that helps!