Life is full of driving and restraining forces: the key is to find and use appropriate tail winds to help overcome the head winds.
· Life’s a challenge,
· Full of curved roads.
· Find the best way forward
· To achieving your objectives.
· Then rest and enjoy your rewards.
Working again this week with a client on their strategic plan, making sure their vision and mission statements give them good starting points. These and the plans they support help employees understand where the company is going and what role they play in helping achieve the company’s objectives. Too often employees are left out of this planning and are the last ones to know what’s expected or how to get there. Don’t make them have to figure these things out for themselves: include them in the planning discussions and clearly identify the results you expect from their efforts and how those support the company’s overall objectives. You can’t over-communicate each employee’s role and responsibilities when it comes to achieving those objectives: the more they know about your plans, the more productive they’ll be and that leads directly to increased employee satisfaction, performance and profitability, and retention. Use all of your available resources to achieve your intended results today.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 –1586): English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.
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