BoyetteHepner77
Best Wedding Cake Ever Made But Each day Late Keeps It a Secret and also the Baker Remains Pocket Poor
One of my clients made the following statement: "You can have the very best wedding cake ever baked and decorated, but delivering the day following the wedding will keep your business a secret" and I added "not to say keeping you pocket poor."
From my observations, there are still a lot of pocket poor bakers be they small businesses to individual employees. Missed delivery dates still haunt many small businesses to even large corporation.
How often within the mission to increase sales the answer comes a day late along with a dollar short? Crazy busy sales people are always searching for this new sales lead or new customer. They make promises and contracts are signed. Then when the solution is due the delivery date isn't made. People scramble here and there, casting blame on everyone including the client. The salesperson remains holding the bag and possibly a debit to his or her commission check.
In today's workforce, there will be a ":que sera sera" what's going to may be be attitude by some employees as well as small businesses. The attitude or belief the solution ought to be delivered promptly as well as on budget appears to have been lost during the Twentieth century. Now, people expect payment for excuses rather than results.
Using the trend to hire independent contractors particularly when it comes to technology services, this is a rampant almost epidemic problem. One of my colleagues in attempting to use some programmers during the period of several months needed to literally cancel anything three separate times until he found a team willing to perform the work. What is so sad he had the entire project organized and was very specific with what he wanted in the IT programmers. What he received was excuse after excuse despite promises were made to honor the delivery date.
Another client is facing this productivity challenge both from his full time employees as well as independent contractors. He sets the parameters, clearly communicates the expectations but still projects are delivered late. Now he must make amends with the customers.
Using the economy still very shaky, one would think people would do what they required to do as soon as possible to allow them to either keep their jobs or earn money from their efforts and onto the next project. This really is incorrect. Again, lots of pocket poor bakers appear to be in the workforce.
The only real suggestion is to invest additional time in finding the right people. What this means is using performance appraisal tools along with a tight interviewing and candidate selection process to guarantee the right individuals with the best talents making the right decisions for the right leads to the best time period enter your workforce (the right environment). By investing additional time on the front end from the hiring process will result in spending much less on the back end.
