Your people are your profits. But so few employees contribute in ways that inspire customer loyalty and drive your results. Most of this has to do with the way you manage them.
Learn how to fire up your employees by connecting them intellectually and emotionally to their work, workplace and managers. This is the key to extraordinary performance. Fire Up! your employees and they will smoke your competition.
June 28th, 2009
There really isn’t any other way to ask it…do you keep your people from inventing, thinking, creating and getting excited in the workplace? Do you dictate what to do, how to do it and when it should be done? Do you keep your people stupid?
Fired Up! employees have the freedom to invent, discover and propose - because that is where the great ideas come from. An economic crisis is a great opportunity to see how clever your people can be. Keep them in dark and you will fall victim to the economy. Allow them to invent, solve, questions, try and assess - and they not only become smarter, they become more excited, focused on solutions and engaged. Or, as I like to say on this site…Fired Up.
Check out this link to an article by my favorite author, Thomas Friedman. He concurs. See what you think.
Don’t dumb things down. Fire them up.
Tags: be clever in the workplace, employee morale, engaged employees, fired up employees, invent in the workplace, Stupid employees, Thomas Friedman
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June 14th, 2009
Hiring managers need help from job seekers; they want job seekers to understand what a hiring manager must have to properly determine job seeker fit for a job. They don’t want resumes on colored paper, movie tickets, pictures of yourself, offers to wash their car or babysit their kids. Instead, what they need most is a resume that presents your talents, performance, fit and value. That gives them what they need to make the right decision. That is all they want.
Hiring managers - demand what you need from job seekers. Require them to submit the new talent-based resume (see the new format above under the Job Seeker link). This makes your job easier, clearer and more conclusive. It requires them to send you a resume with the critical information you need to make a good decision. This improves your ability of hiring the right employee and to fire the employee up!
“Stand Out and Get Hired” - my new resource to help job seekers define their talents, determine which jobs need their talents and create a powerful talent-based resume to apply for jobs that are a good fit - will be available in the next two weeks on this site. Stay tuned - and get your copy. This will make job seekers’ and hiring managers’ lives easier.
Tags: crazy job application tricks, employee performance, great performance, job fit, job seekers, provide value, talent resume
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May 29th, 2009
A down economy is no time to step away from igniting great performance from your employees; it fact, in this period of doing more with less, every employee needs to contribute in a more significant way. Great results come from engaged, enthusiastic and high performing employees. These employees are connected to performance – they are good at what they do and are passionate about doing it. They work in jobs that make them feel capable, confident and competent. This is the key to their performance and the key to your success.
Attracting, hiring and retaining high performing employees are the responsibility of today’s managers. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all jobs – of any employee will do in any job. Today, employees’ performance is based on their job fit. Today’s employees want to work in high performing cultures; they want to work in roles that match their talents, interests and values. They want a strong and professional relationship with their managers. And when this happens, they perform and stay. And today, you need the best performers.
Tags: Add new tag, attract great employees, Capable, confident, do more with less, employee performance, engaged employees, great managers, great performance, high performing culture, job fit, make a difference, match talents with roles, performance, the right job
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May 17th, 2009
This month in my daily blog (BLOGucation at www.HumanetricsLLC.com) I have been looking at challenging employee behaviors. Each week I have identified a problem behavior and offered ways to solve it. This week, I look at an employee who continually seems incapable of doing even the minimum of his/her responsibilities. He/she can’t seem to meet deadlines or complete work correctly even after instruction.
Join the blog each day to see my approach to solving this issue and check the earlier two weeks in May to see the other problems and solutions. Get good at assessing what stops your employees’ performance - and how to Fire them up!
Be sure to download chapters from Fire Up! Your Employees and Smoke Your Competition. Check out its tools and perspectives. It is a resource all millennial (intellectual-age) managers need. You will find the right way to activate great performance from each of your employees.
Tags: bad performance, checked out, employee behavior problems, employee motivation, employee performance, fire up your employees, missed deadlines
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