Finding Good Employees and Making Them Great

If you want your organization to flourish you must find good employees and make them great. To make that transition you need to observe the following:

After you find good employees always look for ways to develop them through education, training and personal development. An organization needs to have an in house employee development program which consists of going to seminars, listening to motivational tapes, setting goals, reading different books on inspiration, motivation and success. Look at the autobiographies of great individuals.

Employees should be given an opportunity to present ideas so that they can develop and grow. Then let them go as far as their attitudes, skills and learning takes them. Never hold good people back.

Insist that employees go and seek knowledge wherever they can get it within the organization. Let them schedule an appointment to speak with their immediate supervisor and the supervisor's supervisor about some of their success techniques. Do it in an informal session.

Ask them what do they read; what are some of their success techniques and habits. Ask them if they set goals. Then get an opinion from them on you. Ask based on what you know about me what do you view as my strengths and weaknesses. What do I need to do to get the position of XYZ? Or what do I need to do to progress further?

Have a vision of the organization and relay that vision and get your employees to buy into it.

Always challenge and push good employees to go above and beyond the call of duty. Give them some autonomy and watch them unleash their potential with creative ideas, techniques and processes designed to take the organization to the next level. Use coaching techniques to shorten the distance between where they are and where you want them to be. Provide feedback and encouragement every opportunity you get as soon as possible. Make sure you identify the next challenge or goal and help your employees develop a game plan that will allow them to move closer to that objective.