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Entrepreneurship is a tough road. There is no rule book, and as a business owner, it may seem like you are always on call.
Each summer, before my kids resume school, I put this life on a break. We load our RV and move forward for a multi -week journey. I do not invite disturbances during this time: In fact, my team knows that I am far from the limits. This time is for me, my family and our relationship.
The formation of a culture that can be sustained when I am not in the office is important not only for the success of my business but also for my personal life. Culture is intended to create, but payment is worth it. I will not spend my end on the holidays that I am thinking about what I am behind.
I know The reason for this is that I work to do myself with my business.
Not only short -term benefits
It is not about the short -term benefit of going to your business just to go on vacation or to find personal feelings out of your business out of your business.
It’s about making an important company.
Important companies are ready to transfer at any point. In the view of the buyer, my business is not just about me.
This does not mean that my mark is not on business. From this, I have kept the work at the front end with my executive team to prepare eight “trust acresists” that allow explanation, alignment and informed decision -making.
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Beyond the basic values
Almost every company has the basic values. We also have. But, about the time when Covade affected 19 pandemic diseases, we all saw that they were not working. Although the basic values are common North Stars for any organization, sometimes they can feel that they are a galaxy away from daily affairs, for which each person in the business should be held accountable.
What makes us unique is our Trust Excelor, who is married to our basic values. Only more than the guidance principles that we put on the wall, the trust experienced is active rules that we follow the interactions.
In fact, we do not put them on the wall in our waiting room: Every trust experience is hidden on a card that every member of our team takes with them.
Your culture is your lonely. These are the Trust Excellers by whom we live:
1. No meeting after meeting
How do we make it live: If everyone is in the room to make a decision or to discuss a move, they are there by design. It is unhealthy to invite the input and then the two executives have to go to one room so that they can decide the debit and the original decision.
If a member of our team has something to contribute, we want them to make in the room where the real decisions are being made.
How does it produce value: If people work in a place where they have clear input in real decisions, they are more accountable for their contribution.
2. Keep yourself in other people’s status
How do we make it live: We are not just interested in “how” people’s actions. We are interested in “why”. However, they may have good reasons that unlock the indicator how we should work. Through the acquisition of understanding, we prepare the connection.
How does it produce value: Sympathy is an important skill – not only to connect with colleagues but also to connect users.
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3. Listen while avoiding judgment
How do we make it live: My business, the Exit Planning Institute, focuses on educating, providing certificates and empowering the certified Exit Planning Advisor as they guide business owners through value creation and successful expenses. Although advisers have witnessed the factors that play an important role in the success of the owner, every owner’s journey is unique – and there are many ways to create an important company. Only by listening we can understand each other’s motivations and values, and embrace the point that can be our own competition.
How does it produce value: If the conversation is necessary, it deserves to be completely embraced. This is possible with just a listener who is ready to be curious, not decisive.
4. 100 % preparation and participation
How do we make it live: Cooperation is very important for an empowered manpower that can work without its leader. Our culture operates on everyone who is ready and participated.
How does it produce value: Every member of our team knows that they were selected for some reason. They cannot reach their full potential unless they are ready to contribute – and in fact.
5. Take the mail to the right address
How do we make it live: If we have a problem – or the reason to appreciate someone – we don’t go to a trusted partner or supervisor. We go to the right address: the person with whom we want to discuss. This allows even more authentic communication-“Avoid decisions”-see-and an incredible culture restricts killer gossip.
How does it produce value: Every member of our team knows that they are accountable to every other member. And our doors are open to communicate with each other.
6. honesty without stress
How do we make it live: We’re not working to be well liked or adold (though it is sometimes!). We are at work to advance our business. By cultivating a respected honesty environment, we get our insights and hear how other things can be done differently.
How does it produce value: When everyone on the team feels that they can contribute, we see how they can develop in their career in the company- in a short and long-term.
7. Respectable
How do we make it live: We are not obliged to look at the eyes with our eyes. However, these trusts do a lot of work to help us understand that we are all working towards the same goals. When we first respect each other in every bilateral relations, it reinforces that our differences are not personal – and sometimes our business goals can be an asset.
How does it produce value: We cannot deal with the hard things unless we see each other as a human being. If everyone knows that their view is respected, we tap each other’s skills.
8 privacy
How do we make it live: If we are going to become an important company, we have to talk to the level of the past. We are not shooting for good. We are going for the best class. This requires confidence.
How does it produce value: When we have a deep confidence, we understand that our partner – to whom we rely to alive our goals – will do everything they can to help us all get something.
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Empower your leaders
It is not easy to own the owner and not to be in full control. However, there is a multiplication effect that comes with empowering your employees and building confidence in the entire organization. In order to create a culture where everyone feels owned, it must have bilateral trust: employees feel relied upon, and leaders actually rely on people with whom they work. In addition, when I empower my leaders to build a culture where they are trusted to make, quick decisions, I also believe that:
- Train the executive team on my long -term vision.
- Be transparent about our profits/losses, our actions and even my salary. It takes a long time to educate the leadership team, but it enables them to know the short -term effects of every decision.
- More communication. I wonder how many owners do not talk to their leadership team. They cannot make decisions that I finally agree with if they don’t know what I am thinking.
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Building a culture of trust is something I think about every day, and not just because I know the culture will eventually pay with more successful emissions.
The culture also comes to me easily – this is what I like to spend time.
If you don’t, you can still develop a culture. Finding a certified Exit Planning Advisor who specializes in company culture can help you start building human capital in your company.