Enigin Training - Don’t Say This To Your Employees 2

September 20th, 2011 posted by eniginenigin
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WE teach Enigin Distributors during Enigin Training to build a team on which they can rely, one which can move forward together on a journey to success.

The leader of a team has to fulfill his role - he is the one who leads and the others look to him as to which way to go, not that they are not their own people, they are and to be. A good leader, employer, encourages individual though within the confines of his direction and lead, but the BOSS needs to set the example, and within that lies a danger.

Your employees will constantly watch you,  say the wrong thing, even unintentionally, and you send the wrong message, at the very least. It is even possible that what you say could even destroy staff morale.

So if you are an Enigin Distributor, remember your Enigin Training and benefit from this following advice:

So, with thanks to Geoff Haden at bnet.com, I would like to present 8 things a good leader should never say to employees - I posted the first 4 in earlier in the month, the other four follow are below:

  1. “Sure, I’ll be happy to talk to your brother about a job.” The smaller the company the less you can afford interpersonal problems, especially those created by cliques and “alliances.”  (Doesn’t running a small business sometimes feel like an episode of “Survivor”?)  There are certainly exceptions to the rule, but think carefully before you hire an employee’s family member.  Blood is always thicker than business.
  2. “No.” Actually, “no” can be okay — as long as it is always followed with an explanation.  Still, better choices are “I don’t think we can, and here’s why…” or “I would like to, but here’s why we can’t…” or “That sounds like a great idea, but we’ll need to do a couple of things first…”  Explain, explain, explain: As a leader, explaining is near the top of your job description.
  3. “I can’t wait to go to Cancun next week.” Don’t assume your employees will be inspired by and hope to emulate your success. They won’t.  Leave your Porsche in the garage.  I’ve consulted for a number of family-run businesses, and in every instance (sometimes when I was on-site less than a day), at least one employee spoke of resenting how “good” the owners have it — at the expense of underpaid employees.  Is resenting your success, even if you don’t flaunt it, fair?  No.  Is it a real issue for employees?  Absolutely.
  4. “We.” This one is conditional:  Use “we” when it fits, but never use the royal “we.”  Employees are aware there is no “I” in team, but they know when you are paying lip service to “we.”  Just as it’s incredibly obvious to employees when you take an insincere, obligatory tour to “check in” and show how much you seem to care, it’s just as obvious when you say “we” just because you think you should.  Build a real sense of teamwork first and using “we” comes naturally.  Teamwork actions speak much louder than any theoretically inclusive words.

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