Are You Part of Something Important?
Paul Grunau, chief operating officer of the APi Group, Inc., tells owners and managers to Hold on Tightly to Top Employees in an article that he wrote for HVACR Business.
What Paul talks about is really just good, competent management. In these challenging economic times, Paul offers excellent advice to managers. The key for you the technician, is to use this information to help to understand if your company and its managers is heading in the right direction.
Go over and read Paul’s article at HVACR Business and then head on back.
Key Points
Communications – Look for management to explain the why behind cost cutting and how it pertains to you.
Involve key employees in the process – Does your company involve you in ways to help it run better? Does your manager listen to you and value your opinion?
Non-financial rewards – Does your manager thank you for your efforts? Are you praised in front of your coworkers?
Paul makes a statement that tells me he really understands the essence of running an organization a cut above the rest:
The reality is that your best employees are thankful that they have a job, but they will not be satisfied with just having a job -they want to be part of something important.
When your manager understands and takes the steps to help you be part of something important, you have something that money can’t buy and you probably wouldn’t even think of looking for another company.
In a radical, bizarre twist of irony, a person whom I am very close to and who works for a very large organization, was the victim this week of such incompetent management, that they couldn’t have crushed her (and her peers) morale anymore if they huddled up and diagrammed a play in the dirt to do it. Read about it here.
