Are You Holding Employees Accountable – Effective People Management

 “My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.”-Jack Welch

How are you doing in the following areas?

• Holding employees accountable?
• Giving them adequate training and support?
• Striving to be respected, not necessarily liked?
• Hiring slowly, firing quickly?
• Firing emotionally disengaged, poisonous/cancerous employees?
• Spending time and effort with the top 20% of your employees?
• Holding meetings, empowering your people and holding them accountable for taking action?
• Hiring people with character and passion in addition to skills?

Read those questions above again. There are a lot of critical issues as it relates to people management contained in those questions. Don’t put these issues off. Get the right people on your team and the wrong ones off. You are the head coach. It’s up to you to bring on and develop the right players on your team.

Are you working at improving your people management skills?  If not, you are stunting your success and personal balance. Your leadership and other strengths are not worth much if you are not able to achieve leverage and results through other people. Keep reminding yourself and your management team that the greatest assets of your business are your people!