Herb Kelleher: Your people come first, and if you treat them right, they’ll treat your customers right.
When you have a people first mindset/ a strategic engagement mindset, you know it’s people first; projects second (Bruno Zheng Wu), you also know it’s not about the efficiencies of the organizational structure or systems in place. You know it is based on the effectiveness of your employees.
Your employees want to know that they are your highest value.
And they are, because they produce everything at all levels.
Always remember, you build people first, you value people first, and then they build your business or organization.
Employees will give you their best, when they know that you value them as individuals who are individuals with a life – at home, socially, and at work, - who have dreams, aspirations, values of their own, preferences, and a unique approach of their own. They want to know you value their work/life balance as well.
Fujio Cho, honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation said: We build people first, then we build cars.
Most management styles are about making people into efficient assets, and so make people expendable. You can efficient with things, but you must be effective with people. (Stephen Covey). Being people-centered makes leadership way more effective.
Engage your team as individuals who are valued, and have a valuable contribution to make and they will be more productive.
