Leave your problems at the door, or not!

Henry Ford once said, “Why is it that I always get the whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands?”

People’s problems are costing companies millions of dollars a year!  Check these stats out:

·Divorce costs U.S. businesses just over $11 billion annually.

·Family crises involving dependents cost businesses another $9 billion per year.

·87% of absenteeism is due to family problems not sickness.

·The death of a loved one, close friend, colleague is the grief incident that costs businesses the most annually - $37.5 billion.

·Major lifestyle changes for workers themselves (as opposed to crises involving their dependents) cost employers $2.4 billion annually

Have you ever seen people leave their problems at the door?  To make things worse you have companies that have no resources to assist their people so they both lose.  Life happens!

Many of you reading this today might be nodding your head in agreement and maybe even wished you would have had some help at some point in your career.  I wish we were all perfect and didn’t have problems but that’s just not the case.

87% of employees say they will work harder for a company that is willing to help them with their personal problems.  Wow, that is a huge number.  People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care!  No one wants to be a number that just walks in and then out at the end of the day.  They want to know they are valued and 'known!'  They want their world to count for something.  Everyone wants to feel they matter to someone!

In my next blog we will begin to dig into what other companies are doing and what really works.  There are so many ways to make this thing work for both employer and employee.  Happy employee happy bottom line I always say!

Jim Rohn says,

“Learn to help people with more than their job: help them with their lives!”

Until next time,

Helping make life work at home and office!

Don't Stress!

What?  Don't stress?  You're not sitting where I'm sitting!

I know this is very basic and it was something that came back to mind when I was speaking to my son about graduating in May.  I was asking him what his plan was to graduate and his response was "I'm too stressed to think about it!"

So I proceeded to tell/preach/lecture/go off/advise and all those prolific things to help my young sky walker!

How many credits do you need to graduate?
Divide that by weeks left of school.
How much needs to be done weekly?
How much needs to be done daily?
And work the plan daily!

GET A PLAN, WORK THE PLAN!

Stress ensues where there is no plan because there is no work till the plan is clear.  Make sense?  Once clarity is there the strategy how to get there, man power that is needed, resources required and so on.  It's then the work can begin and you can measure your progress and progress eliminates stress!

"Progress begets momentum!"  ~Scott Barnard

I was working with one of my clients and we were discussing his 5 year plan.  He wants the phone to be ringing and capture 120 calls a week with 12 service trucks.  (The Plan).  He currently has 2 trucks and capturing 30 calls.

In order for the phone to ring there has to be a strategy; advertising, call center, right personnel, training etc.  Once the phone starts ringing he will need to have the infra structure; men and trucks ready to handle the higher volume of calls.  There again is the strategy to get more people, buy trucks, train etc. (The Work).

Very simplistic but safe to say you eliminate a lot of stress by having a Plan that you can break down year, month and daily to Work on.  No plan, lots of stress!.

Get a plan, work the plan!

If...

If you agree that the right people equal a better bottom line then what are you doing...?

This is a philosophy to you or a quest?  Either..."If nothing changes nothing changes!"