Five Steps to Increase People Power in Your Business Take some bold steps and help your employees and business partners open up to real change and help them start thinking again to longer term. Send a message that you are ready to commit to new ways of thinking and that that includes a commitment to success of your employees in changing workplace.
1. Reconsider your company vision. A vision statement uses future to help analyze present. It must have a message that everyone from CEO to receptionist to your freelance workers can understand and put into practice daily. Vision is match that lights fire of potential in people. To do its job, a vision must be long-term, meaningful in a human context and appeal to a higher purpose. Make several drafts of your vision and circulate them to people who’s opinion you value inside your company and out.
Ask yourself and others these questions:
Does our vision lead to action? What will your customers be looking for from your company? Can you live with this vision? Are you willing to act in accordance with it even if times get rough?
2. Devote more time to management of people power. People issues only seem to capture our full attention during times of crisis. Give them time they deserve by setting up regular monthly staff meetings to discuss HR issues only.
Try this exercise: Managers rate effectiveness of each employee on a simple scale from one to ten. Employees you rate 4 or below are clearly not making it in your workplace. Take action to move them within company or help them move out of company within next 30 days. Employees you rate 8 or higher should have ongoing leadership development plans - they are your superstars. Spend more time with these people than any others. Make sure they know how you think about them and put them in coaching programs to be sure they continue to develop.