Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Make Your Staff Happy

As an entrepreneur, it is highly likely that you would have your own employees. You would need staff to help you run your business smoothly and successfully. Depending on your line on business, you could either be more dependent or less dependent to them in running you day to day transactions.

I think that many would agree that employees are quite an important part of the business. Even if you own the business, you have the money and you have innovative ideas that would surely sell well in the market, all of these would be useless if you don’t have employees or staff to help your ideas and plans come to fruition.

It is therefore important that as the boss you know how to manage your team. You cannot be too strict or else your employees will bolt out from the company. You cannot be too lenient either or else they would abuse the kindness you are showing them. In short, there should be balance between the two. You should know when you should be strict and you should know when you can give a bit of a leeway to them. Reprimand them but praise them when you need to. A happy staff would equate to a happy working environment, which would then somehow equate to happy customers. And happy customers would mean more business for you and more success for you as well.

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