How To Stay In Top Rung Of Your Industry

Each and every business wants to not only be the best but also be exceptionally marvelous in their fields so that they could dominate their kingdom with honor and supreme prestige.

So today, I would like to present to you some beautiful tactics to make sure that you stay in the top rung of your business for much longer time than your contemporaries.

1)    INTEGRATION OF SUCCESS.

The success of every business lies in the success of each and every employee working in it. All of us, humans, are hard wired to contribute fully to an outer bowl when our inner bowl of basic needs, wishes, and life security is filled up to the brim.

Therefore, it is recommended that a company should try to integrate the goals of the company with personal goals of each of the employees so that they feel they are contributing not only to the company’s profits but also to their own dreams as well.

 

2)    RENOVATION. 

I have visited many firms and companies. Many of the top level managers of such big firms complain that their workforce isn’t that much motivated even though the firm is giving them all the perks one could ever think of.

Sometimes, it is only a bit of renovation that does the magic. We all want to live in a beautiful house, so don’t your workforce/employees need a better and beautiful workstation to operate? Make sure you get your company renovated at least once in 3 or 5 year.
This idea might seem to be futile for a moment, but the effect it could produce in your workforce is tremendous like multiple ripples of water created with a single pebble thrown in the water.
Such a step will surely make your employees feel that they themselves and their surroundings are taken care of like a mother takes care of their babies. Boundless passion, never ending admiration and highest of respect – this is what you’ll get in return. I hope that does sound like a fair deal. Isn’t it?

3)    GET TO KNOW YOUR WORKFORCE.

Do you know what is the sweetest sound in the world to a human ear? It is the sound of one’s own name. 

1.  Start memorizing the names of your company’s employees to the bottom level. Of course, it will be difficult, but whoever said that being a magnificent leader is easy?
2. Do a maximum of 10 names a day for starting and then gradually increase it.

3.  Ask the name of your employee when you first meet them, try to connect the mental imagery of name with that of the person’s appearance or way of speaking or the state they have come from home and as many as cues you could gather about them.
4. Then each and every time you go on a “check-round”, make sure to call up that person with their name with a sweet sound and pleasant warm smile on your face. Your employees will love you for it.

The current day employees not only crave for money, most of them are, to this day, starving for praise and love. Start loving your employees. Make them feel they aren’t just some movable assets acquired by the company to make profits, but they are the future profit earning partners in the company’s growth. 

4)    E for EMPLOYEES, E for EMOTIONS. 

It is so hurting to see that employers of this era know their workforce more from without than from within. You have to get this thing straight that your employees need your emotional support too, mere financial support isn’t what they only crave for. 

Of course, money matters to them just like it does to you, but don’t forget that they carry their emotions to work every day, in and out. Your workforce comes to your office not only with full energy but also with their emotional baggage, which might prove to be, indirectly, costly to your business. Make the time to show them you care for their emotional wellbeing as well. Your employees will certainly grow the love they have for you to a whole different level of wow.

As discussed above, these simple yet quite effective ideas will take you and your company to a whole new level of employee loyalty and love. Here are a few more ideas on how you can add an outrageous amount of employee satisfaction to your company’s favor.

1)    Every week, pick up 4 employees randomly from your employees’ list and have lunch with them outside the company premises. Try to know them more than you ever had.

2)    Start an “open meeting one-hour policy” in your firm. Under this heading, any of your employees/workforces could approach you and discuss on any matter that is troubling them. Keep one hour for this and subtract all the outside distractions to focus only on the person in front of you.

3)    Send out weekly games to your employees on every Sunday. Suppose today is a Monday. So, today itself, inform your employees about the game that all of you would be playing on the coming Saturday night before going home. This way your employees will come rejuvenated and full of fresh energy on the following Monday. For this activity, close your office on the half day of Saturday (or Friday, whichever day is your last working day of the week). Games could be anything as simple as playing hide and seek or throw a ring etc.

4)    Organize “Award Night” every month where you distribute awards to your employees. Okay, time to hold your horses. No, I DON’T MEAN that you should be distributing awards like “Most Efficient Employee” or “Rockstar of the week”. Instead, make this night a total employees’ night where they could come on stage and do mimicry or dance or sing or do anything they are good at. Might be the shyest guy of your employee is excellent at playing the flute. Just imagine how much he would work hard if you simply praise him for his skill.

Hope my ideas will be of a great help to you.

Till next time.

Stay motivated. Stay excited. Stay happy.  

Should we be selfish ?

From the day we are born we are taught to be more loving, giving and sharing our love and happiness with others. Viewing this point from another angle, we are given the teachings to quit any form of selfishness in ourselves.

And through my this blog also I promote this. So you must be confused that why I am encouraging you, in my this blog post, to be selfish?

I believe that sometimes you have to be selfish and it's actually good for you and your soul. With being selfish I don't mean hurting someone. By being selfish I mean you should shift the rays of your focus from giving warmth and light to others, to yourself. Many times we end up doing those tasks that we never wanted to, but you probably did them "for the sake of" the relationship.

I simply ask you, why? 
Why do you do that?

If you don't want to say "NO" straightaway. I have observed that the same people who do things "for the sake of" are usually the same people who are left behind and never get that caring and love back from others. And it pains them more when the others are the same people for whom they did so much. We expect too much from them.[Read: Why do we get Hurt ?  ] 

If you said "NO" to them earlier, wouldn't you save yourself from this excruciating pain in the future?

And now if you wonder if you'll lose those friends, then I suggest to do this MORE because this way you'll end up with the few gems you've collected as your true friends.

Being selfish means taking time out to take your kids to the movie they've been waiting to watch, being selfish means cutting out all disturbances for an hour every day so that you can work for your dreams. Being selfish also means that switching off your cell phones and making love with your loved one like the old times. In short, being selfish means putting yourself and your priorities first and then the world.

Oscar Wilde put it so beautifully that "Be You. Everyone else is already taken"

And what is the best way to be you? By being selfish and understanding the need for being silent. [Read: Importance Of Silence ]

 I have been accused time and again by my friends that I don’t spend time with them on Whatsapp chats for long talks. By no means am saying that my friends are bad. They're awesome. I love them. But I love myself more than I love them. I do spend time with them,  but I make sure it’s quality time. Focus on Quality versus Quantity, because you deserve nothing less than first-class. This is the only secret that how I end up making at least one good friend wherever I go.

It's actually the different lens used by me and my friends that make our views so different. Both the parties are right. Am a guy who dreams wild dreams and does every bit to achieve them, so many times I have to forego outings with friends to work for my dreams. One such incident I remember was when I was in class XII. (It's actually the highest grade class in the senior secondary school in India) So we all were having our board exams coming up. After the farewell party was over, my friends and mostly all the batch mates went to the nearby mall to have some more fun. I was driving past them and was feeling terrible inside. My heart was aching as if shouting to my friends " wait, dude, am also coming " but something inside stopped me. And results in the exams were astonishing.

You need to be a bit ruthless in the way you spend your days in the present to realize your aspirations in the future. You need to be aware of the things that are eating up most of your time each day. And if being selfish is the way out then yes, be it. Spend some quality time with your loved ones, your friends as well and don't be so busy chasing the cheese that you end up as a trapped rat, alone.

Till next time.

Stay motivated. Stay excited. Stay happy.