From my point of view you are another employee regardless of how you choose to pay yourself. If your goal in owning a business is to have employees respect you, well, it sounds like your doing it and thats fine for you. I want them to do their jobs, have strong work ethics, respect the customers and respect themselves. When I find that person I know my stress level will go down and my income will go up. I don’t not care if they respect me but they will respect my business
True, but I am an owner who is “forced” (wait I enjoy what I’m doing now) to be employed in his business at the time due to things like it being a new company, a small company, finances etc.
While I am deeply involved NOW is the time to set morale expectations and conduct policy’s for those positions I “hand off the baton” to in the future. I want managers who will treat my employees like I do. I want the employees I hire right now to become the hiring pool for future management positions or crew leaders.
Even if I got paid to sit in the Bahamas, as a business owner I still would think it’s a great idea to get in and rub shoulders with managers and grab a squeegee helping the lowest guys on the totem every now and then. Not because I have too - but because it’s good for the company. While I could view a business as a money mill - IMHO any company I own, and how it operates is a reflection of me, so I will always be tied to it in some way.
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Why do you refuse to admit that it IS working? I don’t have a problem with your philosophy and although I have not met you I think you are successful. To each his own but to say it is not working when it is working great is like arguing that the sky isn’t blue
I won’t argue that at all, in my case it isn’t about emotion - it’s about what I believe are good business ethics.
It’s like hiring firing - sometimes you have to be a bit cold blooded, and I do believe as the business owner, what I say goes. But it’s about balance.
I try to mimic what I see as the attributes of successful business’s who have high employee retention rates.
I have worked for very successful business owners where I respected that it was the owners business and their right to do what they wanted - but the moral sucked so bad that when I quit I finished up my job at the end of the day and with no notice told them I wasn’t coming back - and it was common for it to happen to them with employees.
IMHO most people in labor jobs are not used to being respected for their work - it’s clock in, clock out do what your told and go home.
Imagine the difference with a team attitude, big successful businesses from Costco to Taco Bell and Wal-Mart all attempt to instill a team attitude. Would a management team in a successful business like that hire someone knowingly with the attitude of “I don’t care if you respect me, but respect my business”? All of those businesses also have core values, did Sam Walton care, put emotion into and have an influence on what he wanted the customer and employee experience to be?
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Just an observation… I think this discussion is awesome but to the OP the issue was a new employee not a team member.
I think motivating team members is huge. But in this instance, the new guy just didn’t want to (or couldn’t) learn. He doesn’t need motivation, he needs to either slow down and learn or be freed up to pursue other opportunities.
Some guys just won’t get it and the best thing you can do is tell them that and cut them loose instead of wasting their (and your) time.
