Leaders Empower Their Employees
Every successful business leader knows full well that training in the key to their
organization's long term success because it empowers their followers to be more productive tomorrow than they were yesterday.
Two kinds of training exist, internal and external. If you had the staff and resources to offer in-house training for your people you'd do it.
But most businesses find this impossible for two reasons, the employees who can and would be the chosen internal trainers are too busy doing what they're being paid to do, their jobs. Or you don't have employees who can bring fresh insights and creative thinking to the table.
What if there was another way, one that helped your people be the best they can possibly be, one that you could begin implementing immediately, and one with no direct or variable costs associated with it? If that were the case then there would be no reason not to include every member of your organization in the process would there?
Many business owners and senior level managers, people who will never be considered true leaders, are under the mistaken impression that knowledge is for them to have and for them to pass down to the troops. In so many ways they have it upside down.
While they are thinking deep thoughts, strategizing, attending retreats and conferences the people on the shop floor can more directly impact the organization's profitability far more quickly by knowing what their most successful peers are doing in their companies.
Competitive intelligence, information that can add profit to your bottom line is not universally available to everyone at the same time. Isn't that why you attend trade association meeting, to pick up trends and techniques before it's too late to take advantage of them?
If you are not already doing so, wouldn't it be a smart move for your company if you took your key managers and supervisors to the next association event where they will have access to programs with their peers, learning about the best practices in their departments. Before, during and after these programs, they will have the opportunity to connect with their counterparts in companies like yours that are located elsewhere and are not your competitors.
Then, using the simple peer to peer mastermind collaboration process they could regularly connect with them after everyone returns home, meeting month in and month out to leverage the productive relationships that were created or expanded at the event.
Imagine the possible benefits for your company if you took just 3 managers with you and they each connected with their peers and began meeting regularly. There would be 18 people (your 3 plus 15 of their peers) with their ears to the ground across the country or around the world, creating competitive advantages for one and all in their individual battles with competition!
Let's say your production supervisor and five others from companies in your industry get together regularly via a peer to peer mastermind collaboration group.
Their continual systematic injections of wisdom will add more money to the bottom line than almost any other activity your employees can be a part of!
Here is a simple way to leverage the leadership and management training in which you and your employees are currently participating. While they are participating in the programs already in place, leverage and extend the life of the learning process by encouraging your participating employees to team up with their peers from the sessions and continue as a peer group.
Your employees will bring new and valuable insights to their specific functions that will make them more effective and they will introduce new ideas from their contemporaries. Just consider the benefits.
by: Wayne Messick
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