I Care About My Employees
July 9, 2008
Well today is the day I start sharing my short thoughts on business and the world.
I have always had a heart as an executive business owner and believe if you use your heart you will get more out of your employees than you ever thought possible. I am sad to hear all the news around me about early gen-x and late boomers getting bumped out of the market place because like their parents they have started to be too expensive (at least that is what the corporations would have you believe). Their jobs have been outsourced overseas and in-sourced to cheaper foreign labor. The main issue I have with this new trend, is it is an issue of our own making.
The generation before for some reason woke up and decided that being part of a team, using respect, and heart were not what was needed to get more out of workers. It was numbers, charts, time management, and performance management. Well, I am here to say,"that trend drove the heart out of the US worker." No wonder in technology I have seen corporations take 10 times more people to do simple work. Mainly because no one asks questions, listens, or cares about the people around them. I am here to say from my own experience I have managed teams with my heart and as a team my group was able to do 10-20 times more projects in less time with higher customer satisfaction and didn’t even need fancy project plans, managers, analyst, and reports.
It was simple, my team was treated like adults and with heart. We helped each other and treated our clients the same way! So the next time you are trying to figure out how to get more performance out of your group, get out of your spreadsheet, have flexible work environments, kick out the performance management only people (no people skills), and become a real executive and speak to your employees with your heart. Let them know that you value the work they do and how it matters. Listen to them when you need performance help because they are the ones that do the job everyday. And for gosh sakes take joy when they get married or have children. Let them off if they have a loss in their life, whether they have PTO left or not. If you do this I believe that you will no longer need to let go the most experienced people in your organization to save money.
Work is what you do not who you are, but you can be who you are in your work.
Mark - The Kind Hearted Executive
If you would like career advice or just need someone to talk to you can reach the Kind Hearted Executive at mark@one80group.com
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