When your employees see your company’s success as their own, they will work harder, work better and push themselves to achieve more time and again. This is all great but imagine how many companies actually reach this level of employee investment — few.
How can you encourage your employees to invest in your company’s success? It takes a three-part recipe of consistency, accountability and a sense of urgency.
Consistency:
Are you executing a consistent process? Is your leadership team delivering a consistent message? When leadership is consistent with process and messaging, your employees have greater confidence in your leadership and the company. Consistency fosters trust, enforces predictability and builds responsibility — which are pillars for excellence. When they can count on your actions and the company, they hold themselves more accountable, which brings us to…
Accountability:
Accountability is not top-down — it is a two-way street. Some leaders talk big but never back