Fire Up Your Employees! - Thursday
On July 03, 2008 in Thought for the Day
It is up to you, the manager, to FIRE UP! your employees. Your role is to ignite their passion for performance and activate their energy in the workplace. Gone are the days of dictating performance. Today, you must inspire and engage them. We are here to help. We work with managers who want to be more successful in activating and inspiring exceptional employee performance, to significantly drive customer loyalty and improve company profitability. Review our FIRE UP! Tip below and check back each day for more ways to Ignite performance. Contact us for our help.
FIRE UP! Tip
Hand out magnets to all employees. Use that analogy that it is up to them to attract positive energy, emotions and results. Have employees complete a weekly “attracted” list – those things that turned out to be positive by a change in attitude, energy or procedure.
Workplace Wisdom
” Thank you for your comment; we’re all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. ”
Relationships are hot - the relationship between the manager and employee. The stronger this relationship, the greater the manager will know the employee, place her in the right role, motivate and develop her. It starts with the relationship – the fundamental millennial skill that is critical in work and in life. Review our new article Disconnected and Disengaged? Reconnect Employees to Exceptional Performance on our site or on www.ezinearticles.com. Share it with a friend.
Fire Up Your Employees! - Wednesday
On July 02, 2008 in Thought for the Day
It is up to you, the manager, to FIRE UP! your employees. Your role is to ignite their passion for performance and activate their energy in the workplace. Gone are the days of dictating performance. Today, you must inspire and engage them. We are here to help. We work with managers who want to be more successful in activating and inspiring exceptional employee performance, to significantly drive customer loyalty and improve company profitability. Review our FIRE UP! Tip below and check back each day for more ways to Ignite performance. Contact us for our help.
FIRE UP! Tip
Post the most critical empirical performance goals for the week. Explain why they are meaningful and solicit input from employees to help achieve them. Leave time at the end of each week to assess the progress on the goals and be prepared to celebrate success or regroup and revise completion strategies.
Workplace Wisdom
” Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.”
Relationships are hot - the relationship between the manager and employee. The stronger this relationship, the greater the manager will know the employee, place her in the right role, motivate and develop her. It starts with the relationship – the fundamental millennial skill that is critical in work and in life. Review our new article Disconnected and Disengaged? Reconnect Employees to Exceptional Performance on our site or on www.ezinearticles.com. Share it with a friend.
Fire Up Your Employees! - Tuesday
On July 01, 2008 in Thought for the Day
It is up to you, the manager, to FIRE UP! your employees. Your role is to ignite their passion for performance and activate their energy in the workplace. Gone are the days of dictating performance. Today, you must inspire and engage them. We are here to help. We work with managers who want to be more successful in activating and inspiring exceptional employee performance, to significantly drive customer loyalty and improve company profitability. Review our FIRE UP! Tip below and check back each day for more ways to Ignite performance. Contact us for our help.
FIRE UP! Tip
Create a 10-minute morning ritual called “Human Update” where all employees gather and mention one thing that happened between the time the left work last night and this morning. This insures that all employees know what is going on with their peers; it is a great way to know who is having a tough morning and who is upbeat. Help each other out – but this can only happen if you know what is going on in the lives of your colleagues.
Workplace Wisdom
” I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter.”
Relationships are hot - the relationship between the manager and employee. The stronger this relationship, the greater the manager will know the employee, place her in the right role, motivate and develop her. It starts with the relationship – the fundamental millennial skill that is critical in work and in life. Review our new article Disconnected and Disengaged? Reconnect Employees to Exceptional Performance on our site or on www.ezinearticles.com. Share it with a friend.
Fire Up Your Employees! - Monday
On June 30, 2008 in Thought for the Day
It is up to you, the manager, to FIRE UP! your employees. Your role is to ignite their passion for performance and activate their energy in the workplace. Gone are the days of dictating performance. Today, you must inspire and engage them. We are here to help. We work with managers who want to be more successful in activating and inspiring exceptional employee performance, to significantly drive customer loyalty and improve company profitability. Review our FIRE UP! Tip below and check back each day for more ways to Ignite performance.
FIRE UP! Tip
Host an “explain yourself” portion of each of your team meetings. Pick a topic and have each employee explain some aspect of him/herself related to the topic. Topics could include hobbies, food, favorite actors, what people like to read, favorite movies, where you shop, what aggravates you about …(work, customers, companies, traffic, etc). The topics are limitless and they do several important things: they get employees talking and they get employees connecting with each other. This builds relationships and shares critical information.
Workplace Wisdom
“Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail. “
Relationships are hot - the relationship between the manager and employee. The stronger this relationship, the greater the manager will know the employee, place her in the right role, motivate and develop her. It starts with the relationship – the fundamental millennial skill that is critical in work and in life. Review our new article Disconnected and Disengaged? Reconnect Employees to Exceptional Performance on our site or on www.ezinearticles.com. Share it with a friend.
Fire Up! your employees if you want to Fire Up! your customers - Friday
On June 27, 2008 in Thought for the Day
If you want to fire up your customers – get them excited about your business – start by firing up your employees. First things first. Excited, passionate and engaged employees think and act in great ways with customers.
Sixty-five percent of employees do just enough in their jobs so that you don’t fire them (results from work done by the Gallup Organization). These employees are coasting through the day. Why? What is on their minds? Why do they seem so uninspired? And unless you do something about it, this same attitude will come through in their service with customers. These employees are the face and image of your business to your cusotmers. Is it the impression you want? Sure, service is important…but employee engagement and passionate performance is more important. What does this look like at your business?
This week we blogged about Firing Up! employees so that they would Fire Up! customers. What is your plan to ignite the passion in your employees to make service with your company the best anywhere. Change doesn’t happen without a plan. Create your plan. Contact us to help.
Read our article, “First things First” to be inspired to have employees own their ideas and contributions. Review our Idea Center for extraordinary customer service ideas.