Small Medium
Small – Medium Business: How To Keep Employees Well Informed And Improve Business Results
All staff need information to do their jobs well. It’s not enough to tell them just what they need to know to do their job. They need to understand the importance of what they do and how it contributes to business success. Staff need information about some overall issues. It’ll help them make better decisions and enhance your business success.
Many small – medium business managers are reluctant to share corporate information with employees. You may be concerned that the employees won’t value the information or even accidentally pass it on to competitors. Your concerns may or may not be supported by evidence. If you fail to keep your employees well informed, you’re making a rod for your own back.
Insulate Against Small Errors
In a small business a small mistake can have a big impact. This is especially so when the small business services a particular locality. If you endanger your good reputation, you endanger, rightly or wrongly, your business. Small threats such as these are easily absorbed in large business. They can easily dedicate major resources to correct errors and retrieve unhappy customers. Small – medium business can’t match these resources.
Build Effective Customer Management Systems
The small business manager must ensure that all employees understand how vulnerable the business is to carelessness, sloppiness, discourtesy and perceived disrespect. The best way to do this is to develop effective customer treatment systems that all employees must understand and observe. Grab every opportunity for staff to obtain both positive and negative customer feedback, And as manager, lead by example.
Build A “Company Way”
If you’re the owner of “Joe’s Plumbing” develop a “Joe’s Plumbing” way of doing things. It should reflect business, employee and customer relationship philosophies you want your people to practice to achieve your business goals. Make sure that the “Joe’s Plumbing” way enables customers to positively differentiate in favour of your business.
Keep Them In The Picture
Inform your employees. Trust them to regard company information judiciously. They should know your marketing position, strategy and tactics. They should know where your profits come from and how interaction with clients and customers affects profitability. They should know how performance is measured: that includes their own performance and company performance.
What Makes Sense To Them
Be careful to give staff information that makes sense to them. They need to know how what they do affects day to day business results. They don’t want a whole lot of corporate jargon about ROI, accounting principles and economic predictions.
Start At Recruitment
Make sure you have some sort of induction process that includes company philosophies, objectives and standards. If possible, discuss them with job candidates as part of your selection process. At the very least, new starters should hear about these on their first day.
Meet Staff Face To Face Frequently
Put in place some form of face to face communication between you as CEO and your staff on at least a monthly basis. Sending out a “staff notice”, “sticking something on a notice board” or circulating “operations and procedural amendments” will never replace well planned face to face meetings with ample opportunity for staff response and feedback.
Conclusion
Informed staff can make informed decisions, take informed choices, provide soundly based communication and make informed contributions at meetings and discussions. But first they must be kept informed. Finally, bear in mind: if they don’t know, they’ll guess or shrug their shoulders. Neither of these reactions is good for your business.
About the Author
If you’ve enjoyed this article, you’ll probably also enjoy my FREE, 20 page Special Report, “49 Practical Tips For Better People Management In Small-Medium Business”. If you’d like a copy go to
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and it’s yours to download FREE. I work with managers in small-medium business to help improve on job staff performance without using training.
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