How To keep your key
employees
1. Give them an economic
stake, notably equity or options -- everyone's an entrepreneur/investor
these days, especially key employees!
2. Offer each key
employee a way to get around ANYTHING or ANYONE that gets in the way of
their creativity, effectiveness or production.
3. Develop a company
vision/cause/purpose that is even more compelling than any one individual
is -- this bonds key employees.
4. Create an
entrepreneurial environment which stimulates without becoming
adversarial/territorial.
5. Give each key employee
the BEST of every tool, software or equipment -- they need/respond well to
these more than the average employee.
6. Challenge each key
employee to produce FAR more than they currently are producing -- key
employees NEED to be challenged to keep them focused and out of mischief
or job searching.
7. Eliminate the power
structure and replace it with a strength-based power structure; this in
order to reduce politics and simplify structure/management levels.
8. Put the key employees
in continuous training, both in their skill set but also in
communication/relating/management skills training programs as well.
9. Build up the
reputations of each key employee vs being afraid to grant them this
visibility/credibility/power.
10. Put the key employees
in their own 'club' so they KNOW they are one of the annointed one --
they'll keep paying the 'dues' which is motivating.
Food For Thought
The biggest obstacle standing between
you and anything you want, is your lack of belief that you can have
it. Once you truly believe it is possible, once you can see yourself
doing it or being it or having it, the rest is just details. With
belief, plus the commitment to follow through and do whatever it
takes, anything can be yours.
Everything you need to get there is available to you, when you believe
and when you commit to getting there. Know that you can do it. Nothing
can hold you back once you have belief and commitment. You will find a
way. You can. Do it.
Pleasure is a matter of conditioning. A teenager
smoking her first cigarette doesn't enjoy it at all. She's almost
certainly doing it to "fit in" and it probably even makes her a little
sick. After a while, though, she likes it so much she finds it hard to
quit.
Strategy for achieving your success: Choose the pleasures that move
you toward your goals.
For example, there is just as much potential for pleasure in jogging 2
miles as there is in eating a bag of potato chips. The person who is
trying to get in top physical shape would be well advised to find his
pleasure in the jogging rather than the chips. Just like everything
else in your world, your pleasures are under your control. Use them to
your advantage.
What is it that you truly want to do? You can do it. Realize that you
are as capable as any person. See yourself doing it. Touch it. Hear
it. Taste it. Walk inside of it. Drive around in it. Believe in it and
believe that it is yours. |
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