Your future is bright! It’s up to you to keep it alive and moving forward! Here are three hallmarks of successful business people.
- They Know the Importance of Values
The words you use are important, and what you say is important; however, your actions define you. People will validate your words by watching your actions. Your employee’s behavior will reflect yours.
Give a place in both company literature and your policies and procedures manuals that encourage and require adherence to the company core values such as honesty, commitment, and competence. Stability in a company comes from established values that do not change.
Successful business people know strong leadership emphasizes people. Treating people with dignity and respect and recognizing each person’s intrinsic value makes people feel they are important to you and appreciated by you.
The key here is giving people a sense of value outside of monetary gain by aligning employee performance with company values and letting them know their individual efforts and daily work is integral to the company’s success.
Our ability to understand others enables us to predict their behavior and anticipate their concerns. Employees often become good friends. They spend time together at work and often develop a bond that can last for years to come. What happens to one and how you treat that person can deeply affect the others.
Whether they are employees or customers, people are your assets. By standing by them and helping them build their future success, you build your own.
2. They have a Clear Understanding & Purpose to Everything They Do
The distractions of life can take us off track. Having a purpose and a clear understanding of it acts like a compass and steers us back; without it we are set adrift.
Distractions can awaken bad habits we thought we had overcome. In the moment, we can be caught off guard. When distracted, there is a tendency to react instead of giving a measured, determined, and decisive response to the situation at hand. A clearly articulated and comprehensive purpose minimizes the effect of distractions and disruptions.
