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Your Best Investment For Success

Written by: Jim Donovan

Article Overview: Today's business assets are what come in the door each morning and goes out each evening. Smart entrepreneurs are investing in their twenty-first century machinery.

Your Best Investment For Success

In the last century, even in the last twenty or so years, business invested in equipment. After all, we were in the Industrial Age and our business equipment was our most valuable resource.

We upgraded and refurbished our equipment and machinery, built bigger and better manufacturing facilities and added new types of equipment as they became available. We then hired skilled individuals to operate and maintain our new equipment and protect our sizable investment.

Today we are living in the Information Age and your company’s most valuable assets are your people and their creativity. It stands to reason then, that investing in keeping them working at their highest, most creative, healthiest, most motivated levels of performance is a prudent investment and one that will pay for itself many times over.

If your employees have a clear vision of who they are and where they’re going, are highly self motivated, have clearly defined, written goals for their lives, are less stressed, are physically fit and healthy and are well balanced, happy individuals, your company will receive the highest return on your most valuable resources.

What are you doing to give your employees the "tools" they need to perform at their peak? Have you implemented a "book–of–the–month program to encourage ongoing personal development? Does your company maintain a library of personal improvement tapes and make them available to people who want to enhance their personal skills? What about seminars? Do you regularly bring speakers in for employee development seminars? Do you have a mentor or coaching program for your key people? Do you offer a healthy living program and encourage physical fitness?

Study after study has confirmed that every dollar invested in employee training and seminars results in increased performance, higher morale, less turnover & absenteeism and an overall increase in the growth of the company.

Is your "machine" running smoothly or is it clunking along in dire need of an overhaul? The success of your company in today’s business environment is largely dependent upon your ability to hire, train, motivate and retain your twenty first century machinery — your people!

Jim Donovan is the author Handbook to a Happier Life, a motivational speaker and business development consultant. His articles, books and a free subscription to his newsletter are available from www.jimdonovan.com

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