What is Average?
In the workplace, employees earn, as the old expression goes, 8 for 8 (8 hours of pay for 8 hours of work).
This is the expectation or average.
However, due to a variety of reasons from poor management to having the wrong person in the wrong seat with the wrong talents securing the wrong results, only 1 in 4 employees are average.
Now imagine you as the small business owner to C-Suite executive have a weekly payroll of $10,000 not including other benefits.
What “average” is costing you is $7,500 in lost productivity.
How long can your business continue to function as it is without taking drastic action?
During recent facilitation with some managers for bosnia and herzegovina telegram data a multi-billion dollar organization, one of the younger and newer managers asked this question:
“Why do I have to sell people to do their job? We pay them to do the work. Period!”
Other managers echoed her frustration because they realized that management in the past had not consistently addressed poor or less-than-average performance.
And, of course, a few of the older managers did not see any problems.
Avoid Wasted Time
Another manager, experienced but new to this organization, discussed the time necessary to document the less-than-average performance.
With all the projects he was managing, taking time to document an actively disengaged employee kept him from doing other much-needed tasks.
However, he realized this documentation was necessary. To not take action would result in much more serious wasted time downstream.