By Pat Curry
Every industry has companies that seem to attract the best of the best. If you're looking for some tips on how to become an employer of choice in the LBM industry, Jim Harris, Ph.D., a Pensacola, Fla.–based management consultant and author of the book “Getting Employees to Fall In Love With Your Company,” has identified several things you can do to make people want to work for your organization:
Capture the heart of employees. Excellence is impossible with a disengaged heart. Whether it's through a compelling mission or vision, balancing work and life for employees, or simply having a positive, uplifting work environment, great companies find some way to tap the “heart power” of their people.Open communication. In high-performance workplaces, leaders listen to the front line even more than they force. Create partnerships. To really get employees to fall in love with your company, you must treat them as partners, not hired hands. You give them a sense of ownership, literal or figurative, and tell them that their ideas have value. One of the best quotes about people is “All employees come equipped with a brain at no extra charge.” If you're engaging people, they'll leverage their intelligence to make the company better.Click here to read full article from Pro Sales Magazine
