Monday, January 02, 2012
Ways To Run A Business Better To Increase Employee Retention
"By running a business better employee retention increases." - Raj Gavurla
Happy New Year! Having goals is important because without them there isn't a sense of direction.
To shore up the workplace try to implement one or all of the following:
1. A business develops, grow, and evolves. As it does change and new services and products will come to fruition. It's important to select the change and new services and products that have passion behind them (support from the team), can make a difference, and creates a return on investment.
An approach I see being used by more companies is allowing their employees to help run the business. Each business has to decide the
comfort level and extent they want to implement. Not all businesses are the same. Factors such as creating bandwidth and training are important considerations. However, by using this approach companies distribute decision making and financials. It allows the higher ups and subordinates to develop, grow, and evolve. Take the burden of having to make and approve every decison off yourself. You'll find by spreading the authority right your company runs better and employee retention increases. You're empowering your employees with a higher sense of purpose and taking them from a puppet mindset to a grow mindset. Many employees leave positions because they keep doing the same thing over and over and aren't allowed to grow their talents and skills at a pace that has variety (position and business oriented). Allow your employees to help run the business and employee retention increases. They'll know now what it really takes to get a raise and bonus.
2. One way of slowly implementing the approach is by using the "class 60 twice a week". Yes, for one hour twice a week put them in a formal class setting led by a professional speaker, trainer, or instructor for areas where the expertise is not in-house or use a co-worker for areas where the expertise is in-house. It's important these formal classes are geared towards specific skill enhancement. We are in a knowledge base economy and to excel classes are needed. Remember, "class 60 twice a week".
3. Control the things you can and let others control the rest. Stop worrying about the negativity, economy, financial doomsayers, and know by doing your part and others doing theirs there will be positivity, a growing economy, and financial gain. Try "meditate 60". You need meditation music for it to work and relax you. Meditate 60 minutes a day. You'll feel more secure.
Implement one or all three of the above to run your business better and increase employee retention. Let me know how it works for you.
Hope to hear from you.
Happy New Year! Having goals is important because without them there isn't a sense of direction.
To shore up the workplace try to implement one or all of the following:
1. A business develops, grow, and evolves. As it does change and new services and products will come to fruition. It's important to select the change and new services and products that have passion behind them (support from the team), can make a difference, and creates a return on investment.
An approach I see being used by more companies is allowing their employees to help run the business. Each business has to decide the
comfort level and extent they want to implement. Not all businesses are the same. Factors such as creating bandwidth and training are important considerations. However, by using this approach companies distribute decision making and financials. It allows the higher ups and subordinates to develop, grow, and evolve. Take the burden of having to make and approve every decison off yourself. You'll find by spreading the authority right your company runs better and employee retention increases. You're empowering your employees with a higher sense of purpose and taking them from a puppet mindset to a grow mindset. Many employees leave positions because they keep doing the same thing over and over and aren't allowed to grow their talents and skills at a pace that has variety (position and business oriented). Allow your employees to help run the business and employee retention increases. They'll know now what it really takes to get a raise and bonus.
2. One way of slowly implementing the approach is by using the "class 60 twice a week". Yes, for one hour twice a week put them in a formal class setting led by a professional speaker, trainer, or instructor for areas where the expertise is not in-house or use a co-worker for areas where the expertise is in-house. It's important these formal classes are geared towards specific skill enhancement. We are in a knowledge base economy and to excel classes are needed. Remember, "class 60 twice a week".
3. Control the things you can and let others control the rest. Stop worrying about the negativity, economy, financial doomsayers, and know by doing your part and others doing theirs there will be positivity, a growing economy, and financial gain. Try "meditate 60". You need meditation music for it to work and relax you. Meditate 60 minutes a day. You'll feel more secure.
Implement one or all three of the above to run your business better and increase employee retention. Let me know how it works for you.
Hope to hear from you.
Labels: classes in the workplace, develop, employee retention, evolve, grow mindset, running a business
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Mood Up
"It takes an input to change a negative to a positive (mood up)." - Raj Gavurla
I attended a college football game won by a field goal on the last play. During the game, the home team was behind and it was getting worse. This threw the crowd's mood off. The atmosphere in the stadium was not what the team including the home crowd wanted. However, there was time in the game and fortunately to get the mood up the person running the PA decided to play an upbeat tune. Immediately, the mood
was up and the players and crowd responded. What happened? By inputing an upbeat tune it reenergized the stadium's atmosphere to put the team in the right mindset. Since mindset controls the mood (the way you feel, bottom line, or action) the team (players) came back and won the game.
What input are you implementing during the work day or in your family life to keep the mood up? I'm not saying to blast a song throughout the office or home, although, it may work to your delight. However, there are many types of inputs (tip, add a tool, care, humor, take your pick), to get your team or colleague in the right mindset to get the mood up to produce results. This sure would make work a lot better. Or, you can do nothing and just think you don't need one another. Which do you prefer? I prefer to input to change a negative to a positive (mood up).
It is well worth it. Hope to hear from you.
I attended a college football game won by a field goal on the last play. During the game, the home team was behind and it was getting worse. This threw the crowd's mood off. The atmosphere in the stadium was not what the team including the home crowd wanted. However, there was time in the game and fortunately to get the mood up the person running the PA decided to play an upbeat tune. Immediately, the mood
was up and the players and crowd responded. What happened? By inputing an upbeat tune it reenergized the stadium's atmosphere to put the team in the right mindset. Since mindset controls the mood (the way you feel, bottom line, or action) the team (players) came back and won the game.
What input are you implementing during the work day or in your family life to keep the mood up? I'm not saying to blast a song throughout the office or home, although, it may work to your delight. However, there are many types of inputs (tip, add a tool, care, humor, take your pick), to get your team or colleague in the right mindset to get the mood up to produce results. This sure would make work a lot better. Or, you can do nothing and just think you don't need one another. Which do you prefer? I prefer to input to change a negative to a positive (mood up).
It is well worth it. Hope to hear from you.
Labels: colleagues, field goal, football, high performance team, input, mental motivation, mindset, mood, negative, players, positive attitide, sports, win
Friday, October 21, 2011
Stay Productive, Feel A Sense of Nirvana
and make more money." - Raj Gavurla
Stay Productive
If the fall weather and change of leaves went unnoticed by you, you probably are not staying productive. Maybe you are staying productive but you definitely aren't in nirvana. Although we each put in hours at work, what do each of us do to stay productive in those hours to feel a sense of nirvana. Can you get more done in the same amount of time? You can and it can be nirvana when you keep adding tools. Tools make it easier to get what you need done. Just know to rejuvenate to avoid fatigue and burnout.
My practical tool is to get "in the zone". Everything is in slow motion although it's at full speed, there's clarity, time doesn't get in the way, and it's rewarding. Most of all you feel a sense of nirvana. I show clients in my speaking programs, workshops, and coaching how to do this to stay productive and produce better results.
Here are other ways ten leaders stay productive: http://www.inc.com/ss/10-leaders-and-the-surprising-ways-they-stay-productive#9
Labels: in the zone, mindset, mood, motivation, nirvana, peak performance, productive
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Project Work: Peak Performance
You're assigned a project (goal) and it's time to get it done.
Here are a few words of wisdom:
If it's not broke, then don't fix it, tackle the thing
If you broke it, then fix it, tackle the thing
If you don't know how to fix it, then get someone who does, tackle the thing
Bottom Line: Colleagues and suppliers must work better together to serve the client better. You'll reap the rewards (fortune).
Here are a few words of wisdom:
If it's not broke, then don't fix it, tackle the thing
If you broke it, then fix it, tackle the thing
If you don't know how to fix it, then get someone who does, tackle the thing
Bottom Line: Colleagues and suppliers must work better together to serve the client better. You'll reap the rewards (fortune).
Labels: goal, mindset, mood, motivation, peak performance, project work, wisdom
Sunday, September 04, 2011
Dreams Come True: Win Baby, Win!
Ken Mink 73 year old world record breaking basketball player for the RSCC Raiders makes history.
Labels: basketball, free throws, in the zone, ken mink, mental motivation, mindset, mood, peak performance, win, world record basketball player
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Dreams Come True: Win Baby, Win!
It brings a whole new meaning to the team "veteran player". This month a 61-year old Vietnam veteran is set to become the oldest player in NAIA college football.
Grandfather-of-five Alan Moore, who is 62 in February, has secured himself a spot as a place-kicker on the team at Faulkner University in Alabama.
"I'm having a ball." Alan Moore, the 61-year-old Vietnam veteran who is set to become the oldest ever player in NAIA college football.
Old timer: Mr. Moore first kicked off as a freshman at Jones Community College, Mississippi in 1968.
"There's certainly a generational gap with the kids," Mr. Moore told the New York Daily News yesterday.
"They call me a little bit of everything: "grandpa", "old man", "old school", "pops", "grand-daddy".
"But I don't mind it. I eat it up. I'm having a ball."
Mr. Moore first kicked off as a freshman at Jones Community College, Mississippi, in 1968, but his college football career was cut short when he was drafted.
After an 11-month tour with the infantry, he came home and went straight into a job in construction. Where he worked until retiring to an avocado farm in Homestead, Florida.
Generation gap: Mr. Moore trains with his Faulkner teammates. He says they call him "grand-daddy" among other teasing nicknames.
He has joined the Eagles, who compete in the Mid South conference, after a year with Holmes Community College in Mississippi.
Mr. Moore had hoped to return to his alma mater but, after a 42-year gap between classes, the school was not interested in taking him on.
Now he is hoping to earn a starting place with Faulkner when the small Christian college opens its season against Ave Maria of Florida on September 10.
"You look at it, it's like, from what I'm told, I'm the oldest person to play", a delighted Mr. Moore told the Birmingham News.
"To bring that to Faulkner, doesn't take just me, it takes coaches (and) the institution."
Veteran player: Mr. Moore hoofs the pigskin over the goal posts at Faulkner. His season is set to kick off on September 10.
It will be only the third time that someone of Mr. Moore's years has competed in any college athletics contest.
Austin (Texas) college kicker Tom Thompson was 61 when he kicked off once for the NCAA Division III school in 2009.
But Mr. Moore will have some time to go to beat the record, set by 73-year-old Ken Mink, a basketballer with Roane State Community College in East Tennessee.
But Mr. Moore's key hope not to pursue sport, but continue his education. He wants people to understand that nurturing youth is the best hope for the future.
"Spend money on education instead of incarceration." he said.
Grandfather-of-five Alan Moore, who is 62 in February, has secured himself a spot as a place-kicker on the team at Faulkner University in Alabama.
"I'm having a ball." Alan Moore, the 61-year-old Vietnam veteran who is set to become the oldest ever player in NAIA college football.
Old timer: Mr. Moore first kicked off as a freshman at Jones Community College, Mississippi in 1968.
"There's certainly a generational gap with the kids," Mr. Moore told the New York Daily News yesterday.
"They call me a little bit of everything: "grandpa", "old man", "old school", "pops", "grand-daddy".
"But I don't mind it. I eat it up. I'm having a ball."
Mr. Moore first kicked off as a freshman at Jones Community College, Mississippi, in 1968, but his college football career was cut short when he was drafted.
After an 11-month tour with the infantry, he came home and went straight into a job in construction. Where he worked until retiring to an avocado farm in Homestead, Florida.
Generation gap: Mr. Moore trains with his Faulkner teammates. He says they call him "grand-daddy" among other teasing nicknames.
He has joined the Eagles, who compete in the Mid South conference, after a year with Holmes Community College in Mississippi.
Mr. Moore had hoped to return to his alma mater but, after a 42-year gap between classes, the school was not interested in taking him on.
Now he is hoping to earn a starting place with Faulkner when the small Christian college opens its season against Ave Maria of Florida on September 10.
"You look at it, it's like, from what I'm told, I'm the oldest person to play", a delighted Mr. Moore told the Birmingham News.
"To bring that to Faulkner, doesn't take just me, it takes coaches (and) the institution."
Veteran player: Mr. Moore hoofs the pigskin over the goal posts at Faulkner. His season is set to kick off on September 10.
It will be only the third time that someone of Mr. Moore's years has competed in any college athletics contest.
Austin (Texas) college kicker Tom Thompson was 61 when he kicked off once for the NCAA Division III school in 2009.
But Mr. Moore will have some time to go to beat the record, set by 73-year-old Ken Mink, a basketballer with Roane State Community College in East Tennessee.
But Mr. Moore's key hope not to pursue sport, but continue his education. He wants people to understand that nurturing youth is the best hope for the future.
"Spend money on education instead of incarceration." he said.
Labels: alan moore, football, football player, in the zone, inspiration, mental motivation, mindset, mood, peak performance, win
Sunday, August 28, 2011
It's Mental - Find Your Adaptability Link To Mirror Neurons
Labels: brain, grow, mental, mental motivation, mindset, mood, nerve cells, neurons, win
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