Mentoring and outstanding workers:

From Small Biz Trends  by Annie Pilon  |  February 8, 2014

 This organization, SCORE, according to Ken Yancey,  has about 11,000 mentors in USA and are available free of charge.  So you must contact them and learn from this. The trouble is that these resources are wasted.  Many personnel live in a box and do not want to be outside their comfort zone of routine and comfortable life.

Some simply lack the humility to learn. The context, their cup is full, and they think they know everything. Some business leaders expect their subordinates to know their jobs and struggle on their own to know more.

An employee has two goals while employed:

1.  To get promoted, and

2.  They get promoted when their value increases through increased learning and skill.

Tips for building a team from Small Business Success blog

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

Repost from Score Small Business blog | May 16, 2013

You create a winning team with some of these tips:

1.  Create a parameter within which small decisions can be made by frontliners, say deciding how to spend $l00 to repair remedy the problems at the field.  95% of these problems can be remedied by a $l00

2.  Do not hire on the basis of skill alone but based on enthusiasm and passion

3.  Involve the families;

4.  Challenge them to step outside the box.

5.  Use incentives

6.  Deal with egos and individualists and bring on the table

7.   Be an accessible and inclusive leader