Are you showing your employees the way?

Motivational Monday!!

When you find a man who has lost his way, you don't make fun of him and scorn him and leave him there. You show him the way. If you don't do that, you prove that you're sort of lost yourself.- Zora Neale Hurston

As a leader, our job is not to constantly criticize our employees or others below our chain of command, but to work earnestly to bring them up to performance standards. So often, we lose the patience and empathy required to put an employee back on the path to better performance. Instead, we jump to the familiar course of "managing them out" of the organization.

I am not denying that there are times that is the best course for the employee and the organization. However, before you jump to that conclusion take a step back to make sure you did your part as a leader. That is, did you show them the way or did you leave them to figure it out by themselves?

To make a Change.. take the first step

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. -Shirley Chisholm

If you are not happy with the direction of your life make a change. We are not born to just exist, but to always be reaching towards full self-actualization of our goals. You may not know all the answers, just do something. Take that first next step, don't wait for others to solve your problems. Own your power

What next step will you take today? Don't let fear stop you, real courage is when you just do it afraid