How do you share those goals with your employees?
Every quarter, we have a company staff meeting, and we have these little booklets that are our 10-year road map that we read together. It’s our mission, our values, our strategic position, our target customers, our themes and all of our visions.
We go through those every three months so everyone is in tune with what we’re trying to do. It’s got an objective of lowering debt, and we talk about how we’re doing. I don’t put up a bunch of financials for them to try to figure out, but everyone in the company knows that we’ve got money borrowed, and they know it’s one of our goals to lower the amount of money. Everyone knows what our sales objectives are and who we want our core customers to be.
In the beginning, there were a lot fewer people in our business so it wasn’t as big a deal to share those goals. It shows them that we’re sincerely interested in moving everyone forward in a positive way. It allows our employees to advance their careers and get raises and bonuses.
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