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Casual Articles - The Sustainable Workplace(tm) - The Top 10 Ways Of Creating It
There are literally hundreds of reasons why people hate their jobs.How many can you think of?Today I interviewed a typical drone in the working collective and asked him a simple question."Bill, why do you hate your job?"He sighed deeply, his shoulders slouched, and with a quivering bottom lip he began to describe his typical day.“The alarm goes off late, or probably doesn’t go off at all. It’s still dark outside, and I don’t want to wake up my wife, so I scramble around and try
In today's economy many companies have been downsized by the bean-counting model, leaving insufficient staff resources for the amount of work to be done, let alone done well. When the staff:work ratio is right your people will rise to the extraordinary challenge every time, without burning out - but ever
Customers are people. They are not merely test subjects that you approach as a doctor would a cadaver. They are living, breathing, worthy individuals. They have pulses. They talk back. And they have feelings. You’ll increase customer loyalty and revenues if you adopt these simple practices.Be Warm and Hospitable. Take that monotone out of your voice. It is distancing and annoying. No one likes to feel they are merely a number. Let them feel that they are welcomed by the lilt in your tone. People
Be a visionary, develop your intuition and creativity, read the runes, anticipate product and service cycles to ensure your company's economic future is always bright.
2. Have a well developed corporate mission and vision expressed around ethical values.
Ensure that these are embraced, practiced and spread by all your people, particularly executives, managers and supervisors, to permeate the whole corporation. Help those unwilling to wholeheartedly endorse and practice your company's expectations find employment elsewhere.
3. Have all your executives, managers and supervisors trained as coaches or work with their own coach.
In today's workplace there is no longer time for the traditional, overseeing model of management. With downsizing and a shrinking management structure, more and more people are supervising others in different professional disciplines. Coaching provides the tools to deal with this and ensures that your employees continue growing as individuals, both personally and professionally.
4. Know the amount of work to be done monthly in your company, and the
number of people necessary to do it and hire them - the best!
In today's economy many companies have been downsized by the bean-counting model, leaving insufficient staff resources for the amount of work to be done, let alone done well. When the staff:work ratio is right your people will rise to the extraordinary challenge every time, without burning out - but every
In our early youth we all take up jobs to earn money. Right. But do all of us enjoy doing whatever we are supposed to do. Remember, that is a very vital question. Unless you have internal satisfaction in doing a job, you better quit because in the end, nobody is happy, neither you who despise the job nor your employer who finds a reluctant employee eating out of his hand, displacing a willing worker. I recall a seminar addressed by a senior vice president of an MNC, attended by me where the venerable gentleman op
Ensure that these are embraced, practiced and spread by all your people, particularly executives, managers and supervisors, to permeate the whole corporation. Help those unwilling to wholeheartedly endorse and practice your company's expectations find employment elsewhere.
3. Have all your executives, managers and supervisors trained as coaches or work with their own coach.
In today's workplace there is no longer time for the traditional, overseeing model of management. With downsizing and a shrinking management structure, more and more people are supervising others in different professional disciplines. Coaching provides the tools to deal with this and ensures that your employees continue growing as individuals, both personally and professionally.
4. Know the amount of work to be done monthly in your company, and the
number of people necessary to do it and hire them - the best!
In today's economy many companies have been downsized by the bean-counting model, leaving insufficient staff resources for the amount of work to be done, let alone done well. When the staff:work ratio is right your people will rise to the extraordinary challenge every time, without burning out - but ever
Leads groups can be just as powerful as a Power Team if you are able to work them properly. I try to scout out as many lead groups as I can and before making any commitment, I like to gather the cards of each member and set an introductory appointment. I explore what they do and who their best customer is. I also let them know what I do and what I think is my best customer. The final part of the meeting is spent exploring our current database of clients to see if there is a fit. Unlike a Power Team, the leads g
3. Have all your executives, managers and supervisors trained as coaches or work with their own coach.
In today's workplace there is no longer time for the traditional, overseeing model of management. With downsizing and a shrinking management structure, more and more people are supervising others in different professional disciplines. Coaching provides the tools to deal with this and ensures that your employees continue growing as individuals, both personally and professionally.
4. Know the amount of work to be done monthly in your company, and the
number of people necessary to do it and hire them - the best!
In today's economy many companies have been downsized by the bean-counting model, leaving insufficient staff resources for the amount of work to be done, let alone done well. When the staff:work ratio is right your people will rise to the extraordinary challenge every time, without burning out - but ever
Peter Humleker had it made. As the general manager of a successful car dealership, he was earning an impressive income. The only problem? He hated what he was doing."I was making a living off of manipulating and misleading people, taking advantage of them with ugly games and lies,” Peter said. “It’s how I was taught to make sales, and I was very good at it.”Eventually, his feelings of success were overcome by feelings of remorse.“I had to get out of that business,” he said. “No paycheck amoun
4. Know the amount of work to be done monthly in your company, and the
number of people necessary to do it and hire them - the best!
In today's economy many companies have been downsized by the bean-counting model, leaving insufficient staff resources for the amount of work to be done, let alone done well. When the staff:work ratio is right your people will rise to the extraordinary challenge every time, without burning out - but ever
It is important to remember that the customer doesn't necessarily see things in the same way we do. This point was brought home to me one day while I was shopping with my daughter, Stefanie, who was two years old at the time.As I stooped down to tie her shoelaces, I immediately realized why she was becoming so irritable. She could not adequately see the toys that were displayed on the shelf above her head. At this point, I decided to pick her up and to continue shopping with her in my arms. The pleasant ch
In today's economy many companies have been downsized by the bean-counting model, leaving insufficient staff resources for the amount of work to be done, let alone done well. When the staff:work ratio is right your people will rise to the extraordinary challenge every time, without burning out - but every day is too often!
5. Tell the truth.
Increasingly we hear, for example, the importance of family life being acknowledged in the workplace. In those same places where family values and the importance of life outside of work are being touted, days of 12 hours or more, 6 days per week, remain the norm. Is there a contradiction here? Tell the truth in this and every other respect.
6. Acknowledge your staff.
Endorsing your people's achievements person by person may be the best investment of your time you will ever make. For many, acknowledgement is a need, one they cannot be their best without.........and if that is not enough motivation, we read that for many, acknowledgement is as important as a raise.
7. Actively promote team building.
Teams have to be built at every level - shopfloor, through departments to senior management and board of directors. The strongest structures are round. If we imagine our organization as a circle of metal loops welded together, then its strength depends equally on each link and the welded connection between them. The links may be strong but the structure still falls when the welds fail. Ensure that everyone on your team is pulling in the same direction. This means exchanging information freel
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