Good Business Management Practices
"Work Harder Than Your Employees"
When you always give a little extra effort and work harder than expected, your employees are going to naturally do the same.
I want to point out that your employees will probably never work as hard as you, but they will work harder if you work harder. As the owner and leader of your business you're always going to be the hardest worker, which is natural because you have the greatest opportunity to make a profit from your hard work.
Another good business management practice is to develop a solid relationship with your employees.
"Develop a Deep and Solid Relationship with Your Employees"
Many studies and surveys have been done on what employees look for from their employers. Every one of those surveys shows that employees want to know they are appreciated and valued for their hard work. Your job as a business leader is communicate to them that you value and appreciate them as much as possible.
Here is an email that I just received on December 28, 2007 from my supervisor, "Hi Christopher! Great information on your conference and I also learned more about you! You have great leadership skills and you impress me everyday with your ambition, positive attitude, diplomacy, maturity and more! It is a pleasure to work with you and you are a HUGE asset to (company name)! I will be out of town for several days and will see you in 2008! Have a safe holiday and see you on Jan. 3rd%u2026.I look forward to a positive 2008 for (company name)! I hope to attend your conference!" - I have saved this email, and will always save it. How can you read something like this and not become encouraged to work harder and make a difference in your company or nonprofit?
The email she sent to me was in reference to a conference that I'm leading, which is the topic of my next principle; focus on giving your employees as much continuing education as possible.
"Give Your Employees as Much Continuing Education as Possible"
If you focus on growing your employees, they will be more capable of growing your organization. You might be asking, "Why I should train my employees if I'm just going to lose them to another company." I've found there is one thing worse than training your employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them!
There are several ways that you can continue to develop, educate, and grow your employees such as; allowing them to take night classes at a local college, give them books, send them to conferences, purchase DVD training sets, and the easiest of them all is to teach them what you know.
Make it a point to take someone from your organization out to lunch every week for a "learning lunch" where you both bring a notepad and paper and teach each other things. You have to eat lunch anyway, so you might as well eat it with someone at your company who can help you grow your business.
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
In what Collins terms a prequel to the bestseller Built to Last he wrote with Jerry Porras, this worthwhile effort explores the way good organizations can be turned into ones that produce great, sustained results.
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Goldsmith, an executive coach to the corporate elite, pinpoints 20 bad habits that stifle already successful careers as well as personal goals like succeeding in marriage or as a parent. Most are common behavioral problems, such as speaking when angry, which even the author is prone to do when dealing with a teenage daughter's belly ring.
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The Future of Management
Though this authoritative examination of today's static corporate management systems reads like a business school treatise, it isn't the same-old thing. Hamel, a well-known business thinker and author (Leading the Revolution), advocates that dogma be rooted out and a new future be imagined and invented.
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as "treat people as you like to be treated"; "people are capable of almost anything"; and "a manager's role is diminishing in today's economy."
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well explored and crowded with competitors, "blue oceans" represent "untapped market space" and the "opportunity for highly profitable growth."
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- rose08 rose08 Aug 7, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
- Good advice: "Give Your Employees as Much Continuing Education as Possible"! I agree with you, continuing education can not only keep the passion of employees but also can improve the work efficience. The investment can be returned sooner or later. I'm sharing you an informative site about online studies, which can even save more for continuing education.
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