In This Issue
-My Weekly Reminder
–The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey
-I Want Your Success Stories
-Pass it on
My Weekly Reminder
In their book, The Invisible Employee, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton estimate the cost of employee turnover in America to be 1.7 trillion dollars annually. That’s a huge drain on American businesses. They also cite studies which point out that the biggest single reason people quit their jobs is the behavior of their immediate supervisor–they were either abusive, didn’t care about them, didn’t listen, didn’t notice or appreciate what they did or were only out for themselves. Believe it or not, there’s good news in all of this. If American businesses would simply teach their supervisors how to interact more effectively with the people who work for them, they could reclaim the lion’s share of that 1.7 trillion dollars. We’re talking about basic behaviors like being nice instead of nasty or indifferent, noticing the things employees do and saying thank you. These behaviors don’t sound all that profound, but if the majority of supervisors in America effectively executed these behaviors, it would fatten the bottom lines of American businesses by more than a trillion dollars–now that is profound.
The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey
This is an excellent book for fostering trust in our personal and professional lives. The Speed of Trust was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top five career books of 2006. The New York Times called Stephen M. R. Covey the next potential business sage and guru, citing The Speed of Trust as “the most intriguing business book of fall 2006.” USA Today said, “Vital to good business…Covey…has a finger on the pulse of something important.” For more information about the book, just click on the image of the cover below.
I Want Your Success Stories
If you have a success story using some of the ideas that I’ve presented in my Weekly Reminder, my books or my seminars, please send them to me. I would love to read them and possibly print some of them in a future issue of my Reminder. Click here for my email address.
Pass it on
If you know anyone who would like to read my Weekly Reminder, I would very much appreciate it if you would pass it on to them or sign them up. Thank you!
