One of the areas where owners and managers consistently fail is in putting things in writing to their employees, and in an increasingly litigious employment environment, this can be both damaging and costly. One of the things that I have observed, and this is something that I write about extensively, is that small-business people have a hard time holding their employees accountable. Without supervisory training it is difficult to find a way to confront employees about their behavior, and when small-business managers do, they seldom put anything in writing. | | | |
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Many elected politicians have term limits because they tend to get stale in their position and it is important that the incumbent brings new ideas and energy to the position. Moreover, it is very difficult to defeat an incumbent, and sometimes forcing them to stand down is what is in the best interest of the electorate. | | | |
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Employees focus on the paycheck they get each pay date and overlook the fact that their actual remuneration in terms of what it costs the employer is much higher. To educate them it is a good idea to produce an annual statement that details all the aspects of their compensation to drive the point home. |  | | |
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In a bacon omelet, the pig is committed while the chicken is merely involved. Think about your company in this way and separate your employees into pigs and chickens and it will lead you to some interesting insights. Create a list with all your employee names on the left and two columns to the right headed, respectively, “Committed” and “Involved”. Then put an x in the relevant column for each employee and review the results. | | | |
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The lion tamer uses the threat of force and if he actually uses it, he has lost. If he hits the lion with the whip and the lion figures out it doesn’t hurt that much, he’ll eat him. This has numerous applications in managing employees. The best example from my own experience is in the area of non-competes. All my salespeople had non-competes and when they left we sent a lawyer’s letter to them at their home (via Fed Ex to arrive on a Saturday morning) and their new employer saying that we expected the non-compete to be honored. | | | |
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