A good employee understands how the business owner thinks. Any staff who does work and takes decisions in the best interests of the business and not their personal or staff interests has the right mindset to lead. In today’s faced-paced business environment, business owners want to work with potential business partners other than employees. They need leaders instead of followers. Whereas the majority of employees think about salary and small benefits, outlier staff think about looking for a business to make more money so that they may share profits. They are natural hunters as than cooks. They focus more on…
A bad staff thinks about salary increment amind business struggles
I have worked with many entrepreneurs and no single one of them likes an insensitive employee –someone who works in the company but lacks an understanding of the challenges at hand. No business owner wants staff who makes outrageous requests oblivious of the realities on the ground. One such example is what a restaurant owner confided in me about one of his top management staff, who is privy of the challenges the business was going through but went ahead to ask for a salary increment. Really! For emphasis: imagine an employee going to the business owner to ask for a…
What makes an exceptional employee
Are you a bad or a good staff to work with? Employees can make or break a company. Read to find out (productivity killers) Overuse of one’s a mobile phone for private chats and errands while at work. Reporting late at the workplace. Unproductive groups. Being ignorant about how the company creates and delivers value. Some organizations like government entities may survive despite bad employees because they do not have revenue generation pressures. Even if the entire team came late at work, the money will be on the account as taxpayers will foot the bill. The only challenge such a…
I am Sorry, for coming late
“Avoid starting meetings with ‘I am sorry for coming late.” There are many opportunities one gets when they keep time. I love early morning appointments. It is an opportunity to understand the company and the behavior of staff. I arrive earlier at about 6:20 am. I am usually outside when the first person arrives to open the office. This gives me an opportunity to access the reception and observe who comes in at what time and what they do immediately they arrive at the office. Some staff comes with energy and a sense of urgency, with clarity of priorities for the…
ISO certification training fraud in East Africa: be aware
There is a new ISO training fraud that is not easy to detect. About the fraud scheme A person approaches a local membership body and signs a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide official International Organization for Standardization (ISO) training services through the local membership body. Under the MOU, the local membership on one part provides marketing and mobilization services while the person alleging to be ‘Authorized ISO Trainer’ undertakes to provide official training of the ISO standards and thereafter issue ‘official ISO certificates’ to all participants. The promise is ONLY the end of training certificates issued by the…
Be close to power
If you work with someone, respect them. Respect is about keeping promises and commitments. A discipline of consistent behavior. If you promise to attend a meeting at 10 am, keep the time. Keep your phone on all the time. Stop the wrong mindset of being unavailable on Saturdays and Sundays. Someone has considered your opinion on a weekend. That is a good thing. You need to mature and think about the bigger picture. The closer you are with the high-table, any high table, the better. Focus on being closer to power or folks close to power. In a large company,…
