Business e-Book Collection September 2013 | Page 9

Improve your employees
Your employees are the frontline managers of your business’ image, so they need
to be extremely competent in caring for that image.
You want to concentrate on keeping your star employees – and this means offering
them above and beyond the standard pay packet for their services. However, this
might not mean you need to give them physical benefits. It depends on what
motivates the particular employee.
Jeff Haden, writing for inc.com suggests that employees need the following eight
things:
1. Freedom - Whenever possible, give your employees the freedom to work the
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way they work best.
Targets - Goals are fun. Everyone—yes, even you—is at least a little
competitive, if only with themselves. Targets create a sense of purpose and
add a little meaning to even the most repetitive tasks.
Mission - Let employees know what you want to achieve, for your business,
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