Wouldn’t your life as a business owner be easier if your employees were also pursuing your vision so you don’t have to just drag them along. Your employees don’t need money to motivate them.
For the business owners out there
Wouldn’t your life as a business owner be easier if your employees were also pursuing your vision so you don’t have to just drag them along. Your employees don’t need money to motivate them.
Everything Mrs. Mike in PA says is true.
I’ve had staff over the years who I have thrown money at only to see their performance deteriorate and their attitude turn from productivity to entitlement. It’s weird.
My experience is when you let them take some ownership and collaborate rather than command the working environment is way better. Flex time is more important than money – it makes them realize you care about them as human beings and they aren’t just another piece of equipment the company claims ownership to.
I have the best crew I’ve ever had right now by taking this approach. It’s not always perfect but I look forward to going to work every day and I think for the most part they do to. We respect each other and over the years I have come to think of some of them like family.
The other thing I’ve noticed is that the senior staff begin to take on a mentorship role with the newbies and have a lot more patience with them because of this approach. I now have a low staff turnover as a result and fewer mistakes made which cost us money which improves my bottom line in the long run.
Who’d have thought that just treating people with respect would be good for business? Go figure eh?
Well fuck you business owner.
Not only did I follow his vision i helped create it.
I had a great job. Service writer at a small business with 6 employees with revenue of 600k a year. Some of the things i did were:
Single handedly got the address of his business for .com. He had given up I found out it was being squatted on by a godaddy investor. He was thinking about registering .net but i found out it was due for renewal and we I put down 10 bucks to prebuy the domain when and if he failed to repurchase.
Inventoried the entire shop and built it into the system. We then went to electronic ordering of stock with no salesman pounding us with overstock when he need needed some month end sales.
Renegotiated 2 key suppliers for a 5% discount on 35k a month purchases.
When the slowdown hit in 08 told him to move into high end euro and cater to the 5%.
Set him up with a marketing company who rebranded his whole image.
Negotiated bulk fluids and delivery reulting in 4k a month savings.
Talked him into an alignment machine at 16k that was paid for in 11 months vrs our previous idiotic sublet to a competitor.
B to b sales of high end diagnostics and module reprogramming bringing in another income source of 5-7 k a month
Took shop to 1.3 million in sales at 50-50 parts labor matrix with 52% parts gp and zero shrink in 5 years
What did I get? His kid turned 19 and I got shown the door.
Ya fuck vision. Get money.
This will be the end of small business and yet the MSM remains quiet on this UN enslavement:
http://www.naturalnews.com/051058_2030_Agenda
I don’t know about this. I like to keep a little distance between myself and the people I pay. I’m not babysitting them. I want them to be on their toes when I’m around. I like jack welch’s philosophy. The least motivated 10% gotta go, every year. It’s like a football team, you’ve got to produce, or you’re out. It’s not personal, it’s a business
Hire people you despise. That way there are no emotional conflicts when it comes tome to let them go.
I ran my biz that way. For some people it worked incredibly well, for others, not so much.
Self interest always comes first. You can believe it won’t but it does.
The best way to build a group of like-minded people is to get a couple first, and put them in charge of hiring their co-workers. If I’d does not work out, cut your losses quick. I’ve always said 80% of every job is attitude. If you get a bad attitude boot them. You can’t change people.
As to the woman speaking — that lipstick is way too red. Makes me focus on her mouth more than her words.
Smells like Amway.
I “noticed the details” like that huge crack on the wall behind her head. I kept thinking she should “take ownership” of her house and fix it.
And if you haven’t thought out something as simple as” moving paper from point A to …point Y or Z” before you begin your motivational speech, maybe some cue cards would help.
Sorry for being so critical, but that was painful to watch.
Before you post, I am pretty sure that is Mike in PA’s wife.
Same thoughts here HF; waiting for the MLM pitch.
Jimski,
Business owners who do what your previous employer did to you have a way of regretting things later. I can guarantee you if his 19 year old was’t able to produce his business suffered. Stupidity is its own reward.
I went through a similar situation many years ago and got tired of making other people money – so I started my own company. I lived for two years with a huge knot in my gut and felt like I was going to puke every time I looked at payables. Maybe you need to be self employed? It’s usually the best thing for self motivated/productive types like you. My assistant manager is like you. Eventually I will either have to make him a partner or watch him walk. Either way I am happy to have known him and worked with him.
Francis, everyone has been in that position with a key employee. The trick is to identify and train up the next one right behind him. That day comes, let him walk, wish him well, and mean it. Usually a mistake to give up equity.
Greetings,
1. I’ve noticed that I make the same amount of money whether I have employees or not. The bills always get paid first and that includes wages. If money is scarce then I’m the one that has to go without. I do not need 10 people to do that – I can be poor on my own.
2. As a side note, it doesn’t matter how much money I make, I always have the same amount in my pocket.
I’d much rather get a buck an hour raise than a bowl of fresh fruit. I work for money. Period. But, hey, that’s just me.
If I sound cynical blame Hewlett Packard. Anyone one ha worked there will tell you that they had that vision-thingy down pat …. like, weekly meetings drilling it into your head.
Francis.
O he regretted it all right.
8 months after i left his kid wrapped a bmw around a light pole. Not just a bmw a first year m5 with less than 40k on the odometer. The vehicle was basically non replaceable. The insurance paid north of 100k for the settlement. The insurance company told him to fire the employee or he would be dropped.
Now his underachieving slacker kid works at tire discounters.
Businesses succeed and businesses fail.
Those that succeed have viable business plans and the know how to implement them.
Those that fail have wishful thinking and daydreams in place of business knowledge.
In my younger days I used to have employees -till government regulations made it too much of a PITA and I found I could make as much without them- and I can’t say I ever had a single one that put my businesses success above their own personal interests. I have no problem with that, but had I put their interests above mine I would have found myself in that failed category instead of the succeeded category.
HF, we rent, feel free to come down and do all the fixing you want. How does having motivated employees sound like Amway, you smoking some of that straw up there? Fermenting to much sap??
Atta boy! Now we’re talking!!!!
Do employers desire to have employees totally committed to their business? Yes!
When push comes to shove are employers committed to their employees welfare? Not so much.
It is business both parties need to remember that.
1. If your looking at the crack on the wall, you may have ADHD. Get it checked.
2. She’s taking the risk, getting in front of the camera. What the fuck are you doing?
3. Dr. Pangloss advised, ‘Listen to what I’m saying and don’t get distracted by my accent or the way I dress.’
To the last man, everybody would cut your throat out if:
1. You disrespected our boss.
2. She asked us to cut your throat out.