May 2018 « Confidence Coach

What are Your Employees Thinking About 80 Percent of the Time?

I’ve got a question for you that I’d love to hear your response to so please give us your comments. The question today is for all leaders, business owners and managers out there. What do you think your employees are thinking about 80 percent of the time?

As you ponder this question, it may be alarming and it may be frightening! You may or may not want to think about it yourself. But, knowing and being aware of what they’re thinking about is one of the keys to improving engagement.

So this article is meant to be a little piece of knowledge that you’re going to want to know and be aware of. Unless, you’ve done something to help the mindset, the thinking of your team and your employees, you need to realize that 80 percent of the time: the employee is thinking about something other than their work.

This fact is costing you a lot of time, money and production. You’re missing out on a lot because you’re not having an impact on what your employees are thinking about when they’re at work.

At Confidence Coach one of the things we do is we work with people to help them think about their thinking. We help change mindsets for both the employer and the employee.

I’d love to talk to you about this. Set up a free consultation and let’s discuss what’s going on in your company and how it can be improved. Make it a great day.

by Scott Ballard , May 27, 2018

How to Take Your Employees From a Paycheck to Purpose

Hey, today I’ve got a little tip for you for your employees. We’ve got a saying at Confidence Coach “taking your employees from paycheck to purpose and creating dream employees”.

So today, as you think about your employees and you think about getting them engaged in what you’re doing, what your mission is, what your goals are for the company and that type of thing, you might want to tap into the idea of finding out what their goals are. What is the purpose for them working at your company?

Maybe you sit down and you just simply ask your key players these simple questions:

Why are you here?
What do they see as a future for yourself and, how does that directly connect with the goals that you have going forward?

I think just by asking these questions and starting that conversation, you take people from a paycheck mentality to a purpose mentality. A paycheck mentality is what most of us are dealing with in the work world today with zero unemployment.

You take your employees from just receiving a paycheck to realizing that there’s a purpose for their work — past just what’s happening there at the job 40, 50, 60 hours a week. They realize that there is a purpose not only for their life, their family, their goals, their dreams, but also for the company going forward.

I think you might find this a really collaborative, stimulating conversation. We facilitate these type of conversations all the time. If you’d like us to come in and facilitate a 60 minute conversation around this paycheck to purpose idea using The Dream Employee with Confidence Coach, we’d love to talk to you.

by Scott Ballard , May 20, 2018

Who

I’ve got a different kind of question for you to ask yourself today as a CEO, business owner, or leader of an organization. When a problem or obstacle comes (maybe it’s an opportunity or maybe your organization seems to be at a standstill or is just plain flat) —- instead of asking the what and how questions such as:

What am I going to do about it?
How am I going to go about fixing this problem?
How am I going to capitalize on this opportunity?

I suggest you ask this question first: Who?

Who can help us with this problem?
Who’s an expert in this?
Who has the talents, the abilities, the skills to help us capitalize and get around this problem?
Who are the people that have knowledge about this?
Who are the people that eat these kinds of problems for breakfast?

Then, make a list of those people.

Think outside of the box by asking the “who” question first before you get to the what and the how.

If you do this, I think you’re going to find that you’re going to have huge progress going forward on either opportunities or obstacles that have come into your company.

If you want to talk and go through the process that we have set up, go ahead and go online and schedule a one hour free catalytic conversation and I’ll take you through The Who Solution process. I think you’re going to have great results from seeing what we are seeing from everybody. Make it a great day.

by Scott Ballard , May 13, 2018

Your Greatest Untapped Resource as a Business Owner

After working with a lot of organizations and companies, I’ve found out that the greatest untapped resource or asset in every business or organization is the employee and the potential of the employee.

It’s important for the employee to understand that there is a connection between the work or job that they’re doing and how they can achieve their own dreams and goals. If they see a connection between their job as a vehicle to achieve their own personal goals and if you can help them connect, support and encourage their goals, then they come to work ready to go — or, as we like to say, they come to work with their batteries fully charged! They see the connection and purpose of their work and how it wins for the company and how it’s also a win for them too.

So, the greatest untapped resource for pretty much every business is the employee. We go into companies and help them to see this and show them what role the company can play in helping their employees achieve their own personal hopes and dreams. This in turn, helps the company be successful going forward.

Please give us your comments if you have any thoughts on this. We’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to talk about how we help people implement this into their business, reach out and schedule a free catalytic conversation at Confidence Coach.

by Scott Ballard , May 6, 2018