As Christian business owners and leaders, we are virtually guaranteed to face a crisis in the course of doing business. In fact, the odds are we will face more than one. Are You Prepared? Depending on your experience, you may or not be prepared for it when it hits. If it is big enough, even [...]
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2 Simple Ideas For Employee Recognition
Recently, I included the following brief message in our monthly employee newsletter. Read the message and then I want to explain how this fits into employee engagement through employee recognition. From Our Newsletter Encourage Thinking Outside of Job This message is one of many that I send in an effort to get our employees thinking [...]
Are You Willing To Ask For This Employee Feedback?
While focused on the issue of Employee Engagement, I ran across some very appropriate advice on the topic from Andy Stanley, Founder and Senior Pastor of North Point Ministries in Alpharetta, GA. In one of his podcasts on leadership, Stanley shared the way his organization values employee feedback. The difference in Stanley’s case is that [...]
Should You Use Employee Surveys?
I have been focused on Employee Engagement recently. I have done a lot of research on the subject and I am finding some really good ideas. I fully expect to see some significant improvement in this area in our organization over the next several months. The problem is that I like to measure progress when [...]
8 Steps to Great Employee Focus Groups
Are your employees fully engaged? Are you interested in getting to the point where you can answer “Yes!” to that question without hesitating? If so, you need to follow along with me in this series on employee engagement. Today, we will look at steps to hosting great employee focus groups. Employee Engagement As I said [...]
What Joe Paterno, The Titanic, and Christian Business Have in Common?
In a little more than a couple of months, we will recognize the 100th anniversary of an incredible disaster. It was just before midnight on April 14th, 1912 that the “unsinkable” Titanic sank, taking with it the lives of over 1,500 victims. Though there are very few people alive today that were alive then, this [...]
Do You Have DNA Carriers?
The material for the following post comes directly from the chapter titled “DNA Carriers” in the book by Bill Hybels called Axiom. Your Own Business Let’s play make-believe! Let’s assume that you are going to start your own retail business! This will not be a business like any business you have seen before. It will [...]
Must Do: Personal Goal Setting With Employees!
This past Saturday morning, I participated in what is likely the most powerful meeting I have seen in my history with our company! I know those are strong words, but I can back them up. In fact, if you asked any of the other participants, they would confirm it for me. The purpose of this [...]
How To Measure Spiritual Value Added
As owners or leaders in Christian businesses, we should be looking at our businesses from an eternal perspective. Profitability is a must and team development is critical to our success, but the impact we have on eternity (spiritual value) should be our primary concern. Quite simply, nothing else will last. Spiritual Value Added When all [...]
How To Measure Economic Performance With Added Value
With all of the metrics available to a business owner or leader today, how are you supposed to know which ones are the most important? Which are the best indicators of your economic performance as the leader of your business? I do not believe you can completely boil all possibilities down to one measurement that [...]
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