Kip Backscheider📈's Linkedin Analytics

Manufacturing success strategies have been turned on their heads. In today's "new" world owners, CEOs, COOs, and VPs of operations are now focused just as much on employee well-being as they are on machinery and mechanics, supply chains, demanding customers, and regulations. Today’s employees are more cautious than ever. They expect more job flexibility and personal autonomy. Some live with great instability in their lives. Others are uninterested in being career people. Add in all of the societal and political uncertainties of today, and you've got massive amounts of uncertainty. Your employees must be focused on their jobs. They will only get that focus when they're respected as people, have personal autonomy, and are able to develop their careers and personal futures in the way they want. In the meantime, margins are tougher. It will get harder. But in a mechanical world, inspired people produce great products. That influence begins with the owners, and flows to the managers so they can leverage their direct reports. How do you meld all of this together in a way that helps both you and your employees? Here are some ways to get started: ➊ Be a resource to everyone you deal with. Offer insight and value that benefits them; they will come to know your value rather than see you as “the Boss” or just another manufacturer. Offer value—invite engagement. ➋ Develop your direct reports by constantly demonstrating quality work and expecting potential solutions be presented along with every problem, by teaching them how to think ahead in a process. ➌ Always begin with the attitude that employees want to do well and want to do better. Those who struggle don’t know how to move forward or are afraid to. You can help. ➍ Break through the noise by deeply connecting with employees as well as vendors and customers. You will be recognized as the manufacturing expert. If you don’t do it, your competition will and the better employees and business will go to them. ➎ Great pay is essential and is not enough. People need to be involved, consulted, developed, trained, and respected. They need to be shown a pathway to a better future. All of these are huge challenges for owners. If you want to develop your managers so they can get better results from their direct reports, let’s chat. Whether or not we decide to do business together, I am confident that our call will be full of insights and actionable steps that can help you grow your business. Book a meeting at www.callkipnow.com Email: [email protected]