Warren Buffet says the most important investment you can make is in yourself. If you’re a leader there is another very important investment that you need to make. That investment is in your employees.
Your business is either growing or it’s not, and one of the best ways for your business to grow is from the new ideas of your employees. These ideas can be as radical as a whole new product to something as simple as how to increase sales to existing clients. Which any sales or marketing expert will tell you is one of the easiest ways to grow your business.
Grow your employees by exposing them to new thoughts and ideas. Encourage their input all of it, positive and negative. If it’s positive ask yourselves “How can we improve it?” and if it’s negative ask yourselves “How can we fix it?” You can’t sit on your laurels; your successes of yesterday are not your success for tomorrow. To grow your business to day you need to be solving next week’s problem not just tomorrows problems.
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Jane Lovas, CEO of Lovas Consulting, works with overwhelmed business owners who feel that they have lost their vision and their companies are not growing as fast as they want. Jane helps them clarify their vision and share it with all employees; building engaged, energized, innovative companies and creating abundance for all.
Jane is also one of the co-authors of Seen and Sustained: Best Practices in Communication that Increase the Visibility of Small and Diverse Businesses.
Additional information is available at www.lovasconsulting.com. Contact Jane by email jlovas@lovasconsulting.com or by telephone at 703.594.6028.