Love or Fear
There are two basic emotions in life that motivate our emotions, actions, and words we speak: Love and fear.
Building a company on love creates a lasting legacy of improving the lives of others.
Growing at company on fear makes our work or temporary and limits our expansion, in addition to hurting people instead of helping them.
You know this. So what is my point?
I encourage you to consider where your company is broken in relationships. Prioritize what needs healing and where you should invest greater effort to better engage your employees, retain your Clients, and better serve your key vendors.
If your employees just "do not get it," then you need a new perspective on how to better engage them. It can be me, my team, or someone else, but every day you delay costs you significantly.
Your employees are not the problem. Your leadership skills and systems are the issue.
BE a 3STRANDS LEADER
Systematic Leadership, inspiring others in Meaningful Work, and consistently expressing Sincere Gratitude to people around you.
Meeting ideas around the issue of driving your company in love or based on fear can be a long list. Certainly you may have to consider specific situations or individuals on your own first before discussing the issue with others.
Here are some possible situations that may be holding you back:
- Your employees just "do not get it." It is an "us" versus "them" environment, even if it is not hostile. Is it possible that they are reflecting back your inability to demonstrate better leadership skills or a stronger company culture?
- You have an employee in a key role who is not performing, yet it has been months or over a year that you have let this go on. This is a leadership issue more than the employee's fault.
- You unexpectedly lose a good Client. This should never happen because of something under your control.
- Your company does a lot of business with a vendor, but you are not getting any sales leads or support to drive new business with them. This means you are losing a lot of money that you should be earning. The amount grows each day.
- You are working too much, so much that you have not had a date night with your spouse in weeks, months, or maybe over a year. Your children are growing up without spending enough time with you when you are not ever looking at your phone or computer.
TIME FOR A CHANGE!