Every entrepreneur should know that the best way to sustain his/her business is to hire competent employees that can be motivated to significantly contribute to the attainment of the overall objectives of the enterprise.
Consider these seven steps to getting the best out of your employees:
1. Sell them the organizational vision to run with: Making your employees understand the organizational vision enables them to key into it so that they can effectively perform their task to contribute to the attainment of the vision. But doing this, you must take time to remind them of what the end result will be and inspire them despite challenges to focus on the vision.
2. Make public your high expectation of them: Quite often people tend to rise to your expectation of them if you inspire them by expressing your belief in their ability to deliver on their task even when they make mistakes. That way they will be spurred to meet your expectation to please you.
3. Set Goals for the organization and for them: An easy and fast way to get result in life and business is to set goals to help you achieve your vision. Thus, set short, medium and long term goals for the organization and for each department or staff.
Let your employees know their targets. Therefore, spell-out your expectation on measurable and understandable terms to them. Break major projects into smaller parts to make it easy to accomplish.
4. Train and re-train employees: The current information age requires that staffers should be trained and re-trained to enable them acquire requisite knowledge on their core task so that they can significantly contribute to the attainment of the overall objectives of the enterprise.
5. Assign employees jobs that will task their brain: Assigning staffers jobs that will task their brain will enable them to think deeply to provide solution to problems that will add value to the organization. So that it can attain its objectives.
6. Have faith in staffers to deliver: As the leader of the organization, when you delegate a task to a staff, exercise faith in his/her ability to deliver on the task. Indeed you should have faith that each member of the team has the ability to perform their task unless you didn’t conduct a proper recruitment Exercise.
It’s important to note that if you refuse to delegate task, you’re inadvertently making your workers lose faith in their abilities which might cause resentment that is not profitable to your business.
7. Provide career opportunities and remunerate staffers accordingly: Endeavour to provide an environment that will promote staffers prestige, recognition, pride, safety and good health, a sense of doing the right thing coupled with remuneration according to industry standard.
Compensation (such as promotion/bonuses) should be based upon the result rather than task performed. Always recognize and celebrate performers and do not hesitate to give credit when it’s merited.