Grooming Your Business Race Horses
Posted on July 31, 2008 - Filed Under Online travel for less
This of course isn’t you, but some employers will have a stable of race horses and treat them as if they were a barn full of farm animals.
Are you tapping your true talent pool, or have you forgotten the simplest of ways to rev-up your team to be incredible business people?
It doesn’t matter if your company is big or small, you can apply the following techniques and increase your productivity, earning power, competitive edge, and morale.
As I mentioned (and I speak from experience), treating your employees like a barn full of farm animals, rather than nurturing your business with their business skills is sinful.
Your office or factory floor morale will fall off and resume‘ dusting will rise if you have the farm animal mentality. No one enjoys going to work where they are unappreciated, snubbed when offering a suggestion, or ignored for who they are and what they can do.
Mediocrity is a serious business virus that can cripple companies, no matter how much they promise in a pension account.
Here’s what you can do to awaken your race horses in the stable and get them galloping in rhythm to your business goals.
1) Treat race horses like the thoroughbreds that they are. Aretha Franklin sang about RESPECT and that costs nothing, except for the time to treat people like valued employees rather than overhead.
2) Here’s a magic word; rotation. If you want to grow your company into a well-rounded team, rotate their tasks and responsibilities. This will strengthen the bond between your workers and really show you who the superstars are.
Fresh tasks keep the blood pumping and the brain working. Feeling refreshed with their new duties and satisfying their own need to show-off their talents; can only benefit your company.
We’ve all heard the line in a western movie where one of the cowboys tells the rest of the riders that they need fresh horses. Rotating duties can really bring a new energy level to your stable.
The newly learned skills from doing different tasks will give you a bullpen of talent in case an employee suddenly leaves the company. Don’t be left with out a relief pitcher.
3) Magnetism is a good way to visual this third point. Talent has a tendency to create a buzz about a company and attract other race horses that are experiencing the farm animal syndrome.
Call it magnetism or even a morphogenetic field, but the emails, résumé’s and phone calls will surface from race horses wanting to be treated like race horses. Your talent pool will increase and your resources for more talent waiting to come on board will rise as well.
4) Learning curve is something many employers have forgotten. You need to give some of the rotating talent a little time and some space, but first you have to give them the opportunity to show you what they can do. Keep thinking that building your talent pool is an investment in your business. It is an investment that you must make starting now.
5) Transferring employees to other divisions in other parts of the country or the world can add to their sophistication and business knowledge, but more importantly it can give you fresh feedback and perspective about the marketplace.
The great thing about employees who are treated well is that they have a strong tendency to give back to the company that so encouraged them and trusted them with challenges.
Race horses will wither away if they don’t get to stretch their legs occasionally. If deprived, even race horses will turn into just farm animals.
Lazz Laszlo is a former Investment Executive and Radio & Television Financial Reporter with many entrepreneurial endeavors to his credit. He spends his time as an emcee, public speaker, enjoying life and writing articles and eBooks about business, travel, retirement, strategy, and pleasure. To learn more, please visit Lazz’s website; http://www.925-wage-slave-alternatives.com
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