I've Been Thinking...

About ways to recession-proof your business. Call it a slowdown or a recession, the impact is nearly the same - our businesses are challenged and we have become desperate to find ways to respond. We feel the urge to cut expenses, eliminate programs, benefits, and put customer and employee development on hold. Our knee-jerk reaction to this slowdown pressure encourages us to do all of the wrong things.

True, we must eliminate wasteful spending; it should never take a recession to drive this thinking. We must always assess the impact of our spending on performance to determine its return and effectiveness. However, in today's intellectual environment, this review process is not strictly empirical. Today, we must also assess how recession decisions affect employee morale, engagement and performance. Sure, cutting a percentage of the 401k match or deleting a holiday gift program may cut expenses from the bottom line but they may also have a more significant, longer term impact on profitability as employees disconnect from the organization - both mentally and ultimately, physically.

Sometimes a recession is a good thing. It forces us to look deeper at what we do and how we do it. So this month, we focus our Take Action section on the recession and how to use the event to better understand who we are, what we do...and do it better than anyone else.

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Humanetrics wants you to think your way to success. To help you with this we introduce BLOGucation (Daily Power Learning), our Success Formula process and worksheet, our programs and our keynotes. Remember that you can also find great resources, articles and links to some of today's best thinking and sites. Use the sources, review the articles... get smart. And when you need some help to raise your performance to a power, contact us and let's get started together. Until then, use what you find on the site to be your best; your employees and your customers need you to be great.