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Use the bacon omelet test |
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 ont he left and two columns on the right headed, respectively, "Committed" and "involved". Then put an x in the relevant column for each employee and review the results. | | | |
“Committed” obviously doesn’t represent a problem, but “Involved” may be an issue. Ask yourself whether you require commitment from this person and if you do, then further ask yourself whether you think you can gain that commitment or whether you need to make a change. This is a valuable exercise to carry out and it can tell you a lot about your people …..and if you aren’t comfortable with the chicken pig analogy for your animal farm, you can always call them sheep and goats. 
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