Get Agreement from Your Employees
Employees can make or break a company. It does not matter how great of an executive the business owner is. If the employees don’t support the company initiatives and participate a company cannot succeed. This is a fact! Despite this fact, many of us who own businesses have dealt with less enthusiastic employees. This can pose a problem because it takes our focus off our own key areas of production, it lowers the energy of the company in general, and it also distracts and influences co-workers. How do we handle this person?
The first solution is to ask a simple question. “Is this person willing?” If an employee is being difficult or even if they are being agreeable but you just simply aren’t seeing them perform at their full capabilities it is extremely valid to consider whether they are willing to play at that level or not. If the answer is yes, you should be enthusiastic because this employee is open to improving. If that answer is no, the issue is black and white. If your culture expects and requires something that they are not willing to provide, you cannot keep this employee.
Let’s talk about what to do when the person is willing. This means the responsibility falls back on you, the business owner. If a person is willing to improve and grow it means that we are causing some sort of miscommunication caused by leadership or management.
So here is what it comes down to:
1.   You employee doubts your intention and has a lack of trust for you. If employees are not trusting of you, it may be indicative and not following through on your word and leaving cycles of action unfinished. Alternatively, it could mean that they have done something unethical within your company and they are creating a motivator to justify why they did what they did. It could be either of the scenarios and even both. To solve this problem, write out all of the things you’ve done that could have breached trust. Go handle those things. Also have your employees (if they are willing) write out all the things they did that are against company policy and culture. Teach them how to go handle those things.
2.   You are not clear and easy to follow. This is the other thing that could be causing lack of agreement with your employees. Ultimately and business owner communicates what they need done and how to do it and it the is role of the employee to duplicate those orders. If the orders are not easily duplicated it is not easy for that employee to agree and perform. If someone is speaking Chinese and you speak Spanish, no matter what they say in Chinese, you will not be able to agree and duplicate it. Solve this by first making your processes very easy to follow. Simplify everything. Next, help your employees understand any terms and processes they are still struggling with.
3.   The last thing that is almost always a cause is that the employee compensation is not lucrative enough and/or it compensates the wrong activities. Paying someone $40,000 a year and then just saying “go get em!” is a sure-fire way to win at the game of employee dis-engagement. Your compensation plan must reward the right activities and not reward the wrong activities. Additionally, you must make sure your employees feel safe and certain within your company. If they are performing, they understand your mission & vision, they are confident in how to do their job, and they are comfortable then there is no reason for them to disengage or leave.
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Jerry Fetta
Jerry Fetta is a husband, son of Yahweh, Entrepreneur and owner of 5 privately held businesses. Jerry lives in Alaska with his wife and 2 dogs. His no-nonsense approach to business, finances, and life speaks truth and provides clarity to his clients and followers. His personal mission in life is to empower millions of leaders to own their God-given, ultimate potential.
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