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Hub You - Dead Wood: High Value Antiques or Dangerous Rot?
Restaurant management has many areas of concern especially if it’s a newly opened establishment being run by a novice restaurant manager/owner. There can be a lot of challenges to face, realizations to know and bills to pay but any person whose passion to be successful in restaurant management will get to their goals later on. Of course there will be shortcomings and endless issues with partners, food providers, employees and customers but a serious restaurant owner has to handle all these to get to a more stable business.Another fact about restaurant management
Many long-serving staff have a wealth of experience, customer knowledge and good ideas. They can be valuable in training new
Many medical supply companies have been selling little kits for business owners, which contain first aide stuff for years. They go in a scare the ever living crap out of the business owner and tell them of the fines that might occur if they do not have such stuff on the property, then they up sell the poor business owner. Poor small businessperson does not know any better and so they buy whatever they tell them too, do not get me wrong the fines are in fact real but many kits are in excess of $200.00.Sometimes they come to franchisors like me and try that scar
What should you do with these folks?
Firing them seems a mercenary way to run a business. But keeping them on staff can demotivate and demoralize others, increasing your payroll without improving profits.
A journalist recently asked me point-blank, ‘What should companies do with their “dead wood”?’
My answer was a question; ‘Is the “dead wood” raw material for valuable antiques, or is it dangerous rot?’
Many long-serving staff have a wealth of experience, customer knowledge and good ideas. They can be valuable in training new
Years ago I read an article by a renowned psychologist wherein he wrote his studies found one percent of all human beings would never lie, cheat or steal. One percent would always lie, cheat or steal and given the right set of circumstances, the rest of us would likely lie, cheat and/or steal.I mention this to highlight the fact that, if we can buyoff on this one principle – sobering though it may be – we have then, a benchmark from which to begin to at least try to understand the denigration of ethics that lead to outcomes like Enron and WorldCom.Most be
Firing them seems a mercenary way to run a business. But keeping them on staff can demotivate and demoralize others, increasing your payroll without improving profits.
A journalist recently asked me point-blank, ‘What should companies do with their “dead wood”?’
My answer was a question; ‘Is the “dead wood” raw material for valuable antiques, or is it dangerous rot?’
Many long-serving staff have a wealth of experience, customer knowledge and good ideas. They can be valuable in training new
First, you need to appreciate that discipline involves handling the behaviour of apparently ‘problem people’.‘Problem people’ key facts:• The behaviour is the problem, not the person• Seeing people as a problem can be dangerous and destructive, in relationships and in managing people• It is vital to separate out the person from the problemA problem person is someone whose behaviour does not meet the normal standard we expect. It follows, therefore, that we will need to be clear what the standard expected is. We wi
A journalist recently asked me point-blank, ‘What should companies do with their “dead wood”?’
My answer was a question; ‘Is the “dead wood” raw material for valuable antiques, or is it dangerous rot?’
Many long-serving staff have a wealth of experience, customer knowledge and good ideas. They can be valuable in training new
There are a number of measures that get used for tracking inventory performance. One of the most popular is ‘stock outs’. A ‘stock out’ occurs when there is demand for an inventory item but there is no stock.It is essential to measure the availability of stock, after all that is why the investment is made in the first place. However, measuring stock outs can be a limiting way to measure inventory as it only measures one dimension of inventory, that is, availability. This is limiting because one way to ensure a low number of stock outs is to over invest in invent
My answer was a question; ‘Is the “dead wood” raw material for valuable antiques, or is it dangerous rot?’
Many long-serving staff have a wealth of experience, customer knowledge and good ideas. They can be valuable in training new
The average consumer is confronted with over 36,000 commercial messages per day. Decision makers face even more options. All available space is being bought up and sold as advertising space. Advertising exposure is increasing exponentially, and this naturally affects your cost of sales and therefore your margins. It now costs three times more to get just half the results you used to get. What to do?You have two choices. You can work harder, which is tactical, short-term and comprised of reactive, daily activities. Or you can work smarter, which is strategic, b
Many long-serving staff have a wealth of experience, customer knowledge and good ideas. They can be valuable in training new staff, contacting and caring for customers, spreading goodwill for the company through public relations or community outreach programs.
Long-serving staff may not be able to master the latest technology or move at the current pace of change, but their knowledge and proven skills could still be harnessed for the benefit of all. These team members are raw material for creating treasured and high-value antiques.
One large company offered senior staff an option of retiring early or working in new capacities as recruiters, staff trainers o
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