|
|
|
Coaching Costs
"Coaching Costs" Why does Internet Business Coaching cost so much? If you don't know what Internet Business Coaching is, you will soon enough. These companies are becoming more and more visible on the Internet scene every day. What they do is...
Finding Your Niche
Have you found your niche? If you really want to find out, you need to answer the following questions: 1. Is your business the only one of its kind in town? 2. Do people consider your service first and price later? 3. How can prospective...
It's Okay To Negotiate - REALLY!
Sarah is a young woman who attended one of my sales negotiation training programs shortly after taking a new job. When I asked her how she did with her salary negotiation, she replied, "Well, I didn't negotiate. I was offered $44,000 and I took it....
Management Coaching: The Heart of Performance Management
The semantics of training and development do a great job of muddling the topic of human effectiveness on the job.
What, precisely, are the differences and similarities among terms like "engagement" and "performance management" and "performance...
What To Do When Your IT Project Is Late, Over Budget, and Looks Like It’s Never Going To Work
Here’s a scary statistic. According to four prominent research firms, only around 20% of all IT projects are finished in a timely manner. By “timely” the researchers mean without loss of quality or being over budget. They go on to say the...
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Empower Your People - Give Them Some Control
Empowerment and control, so important in the lives of our employees; our people. For with these two a whole new flowering of capability opens up for them.
Ultimately you too, for that involvement and intimacy with your business, be it small or large, will make the difference between failure and success.
Here's why...
It's been a pretty good domestic weekend around the place - not done a lot, but I have done what I've wanted to do - and that makes the difference.
I changed my role when I first left the employed world. Having been a manager for over 25 years. I became a true employee with a manager breathing down my neck. It was the most difficult thing to accept. It wasn't because I could do it better (although, then again...!), more it was that I had just no control at all. And I realised that most people who have jobs are total employees and have little say in what they do or how they do it. They are 'done to' rather than deciding for themselves and getting creative and involved.
Sadly I didn't realise this until I was a manager no longer, but what I did realise and share with you now is that to be totally disempowered in your role is demoralising and depressing.
Whilst I realise that perhaps I am more creative and need space to think and 'invent', which some people may not feel quite so
intensely, I don't want to assume that. I recognise that everyone needs a little involvement, at least, in what they do and how they do it. Empowerment/engagement whatever you want to call it - it makes that difference.
If I can leave you with a thought to take back into your businesses and workplaces, it is this:-
"What can I do today that will empower at least one person in my team like never before - and how can I build that into our culture from now on."
A big challenge? Maybe. But what a gift you will give to your people - and ultimately yourself and your business too.
And I got loads of stuff done in the garden, that I chose to do. And gardening is not normally what I do much at all! Interesting.
If you want more on this - there is a page on the website that tells you more. Click the link below.
About the Author
© 2005 Martin Haworth is a Business and Management Coach. He works worldwide, with small business owners, managers and corporate leaders. He has hundreds of hints, tips and ideas at his website, www.coaching-businesses-to-success.com. (Note to editors. Feel free to use this article, wherever you think it might be of value - with a live link if you can).
|
|
|
|
|
|