Your Employees & Production, Increase Both at No Cost.

Just as seismologists say an increase on a Richter scale of only one point represents a 10-fold increase in the magnitude of the quake. Likewise each percentage point over 100% of your employees effort in your company represents a 10-fold increase in production and output in their respective division of your company.

The big question, what makes an employee give your company more than "100%". It should come as no surprise that the first step in this process of achievement for both your company and employee is truth. According to the Guinness Book of World Records Marilyn Vos Savant claims the highest measured IQ in the world. An interviewer once asked Ms. Savant "What is the most powerful concept and what makes it powerful?" Ms. Savant replied with a simple but profound answer: What is the most powerful concept? Truth, What makes it so powerful? It is so powerful because whether we like it or not, there isn't a darn thing we can do about it."

 "No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln

Of course the mentioning of truth above is not to say that an employee must know every detail of your business matters but truth in matters concerning an employees involvement, position, with your company should always be every bit of that, truth. Businesses, families, and even friends never survive when truth isn't a foundational part of the relationship.

It's important to remember that human beings, including yourself, thrive in situations where they have a good sense of their value and importance in even simple matters. Acknowledging directly to an employee his or her abilities, competencies, and their importance to the success of a project  is more then a boost to the employee, its a boost in production. Having a personal sense of responsibility in a companies daily success is a very motivational tool an employer can implant in an employee.

What's your opinion? How often have you asked an employee this? Any business or business owner who feels that their employees opinions are not important is not capturing all the profits available to them. Although as an owner of a company, a shop supervisor, foreman, or a team leader you may be considered to have more knowledge than those working in the positions you oversee. There are two things that should not be forgotten in this. The first is very simple, your company can NOT survive and profit without that little person or laborer, this is a fact. Also, never forget, your laborer performs that function day in and day out and sees more in that little job than you likely ever could. All things change, even the most efficient processes, machines, functions change, things are always improved and who better to ask an opinion than the person actually doing the work. Again, your employee will get the deserved sense of value in your company and this will mean increased production.

All companies employ personnel in some positions that can be considered simply "labor", positions not requiring a college degree or "special" training. Never let your company fall prey into thinking there doesn't have to be a direct connection everyday with your laborers. Worse yet, never let your laborers feel that there isn't a direct connection with them on a regular basis. Even worse yet, never treat them like a laborer, they are your companies back bone, let them know it. It takes very little for even the highest person in administration to spend 60 seconds with a laborer asking them a question about there job, what they think about a certain process, whether they want to advance in the company, and complementing them on the important part they play in your companies survival. Those few seconds of connection with your labor will increase production and quality. It's inherent in us from when we're children, ever notice in your child, when you compliment them about a great drawing or how great that piece of paper with stuff like beans, pipe cleaners, and buttons glued all over it looks? Even though you may not know what it even is, your child's feeling of accomplishment makes them go like gang busters to do more! But there's nothing childish about it when it comes to an employee and your profits, be in touch.

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.” Ralph Waldo

See the Profits! It's a simple fact, when a human being has a true sense of their importance and value in any given thing they are more positive and more productive. Not just in their job, but in their life and community. The production, profitability, and integrity of your company will increase several fold without spending a cent. Do you have 60 seconds? 


"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
Vince Lambardi