Being the leader of a company is certainly not an easy job! You cannot be everything to everyone at all times. I have been a leader for most of my working life. One thing that I had to learn is that before I can show respect to my staff, I have to have respect for myself and listen to my own truth based on my experience. Yes, there are certain times when the truth I have as a company leader is not the same truth as my staffs’. However, I have also learned that if there is a problem within a company and you do not deal with it, it festers and attracts more negative energy which will then affect the whole company. That is why it is very important to confront issues when they come up. I can admit that I make my mistakes and I have my good and bad days…I have to take responsibility for that. However, I try to approach each new day with an open mind.
At times, my staff can say to me: “When you are straight and clear with us, we know where we have you and what you think of us, and that makes us feel secure.” When I interview someone for a job, I try to get a sense of what their natural intelligence is, and what kind of resource you can create from that intelligence. Many of my personnel have not been qualified for the job I have given them, but they have proved that they have the natural ability to do it. There are those who have had the right education and have been very good at the job, as well. Also, there are some employees who have done a very good job here, and after some time they have left in order to take another step in their development.
I try to find people who can grow and develop with the company just like the company is doing. I would also like them to have skills and abilities that I can learn from. As a company leader you cannot be an expert on everything, it is important to employ people who can do what you cannot do yourself. One thing that I do check with people is their motivation. Do they want the job because of the work I do as a medium, are they applying because their purpose is money, or are they genuinely interested in doing the job? I have realised that people who only are interested in money within their employment are not very happy. A job must be fulfilling for the person working there!
Intrigue, in any form, is something that I do not like, and it is something that I will confront very quickly when I detect it. I have not always made the right decisions when I have employed someone, but I make the effort. We have had people here who thought they were superior, they have attempted to intrigue, but when you have a superiority complex nothing will ever work out for you.
What I have been writing about so far is my way of running my company and respecting my personnel by being straight and honest with them. Something that really fascinates me is when people in my team discover something they are capable of doing, without having known that they could do it. It is like a seed that grows and eventually can blossom, their natural intelligence. If I think of my company as a garden, team work is what makes a garden grow. I have not developed Gamla Byskolan on my own, it is built by contribution from many people and has evolved through team effort. When you give a person the freedom and room to develop their own resource it will give them the freedom to be who they really are.
/Terry Evans
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