Would You Work For You

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Would You Work For You
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• What do you want from your employer?
• What do you want from your employees?

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Priorities for todays new work force

• Family is important
• The amount of time off is less important but..
• when the time off is more important

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Priorities for todays new work force

• Family is important
• The amount of time off is less important but..
• when the time off is more important
• Workplace needs a supportive social atmosphere
• Employer needs to care personally

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Priorities for todays new work force

• Family is important
• The amount of time off is less important but..
• when the time off is more important
• Workplace needs a supportive social atmosphere
• Employer needs to care personally
• Compensation needs to be comparable

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How do you create a social atmosphere?

• Spend 15 min with an employee every week
• - Ask about
• Family
• Vacation
• Hobbies / Sports
• Show and help when employees having personal
  problems

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Create Staff loyalty

• Constantly look for quality employees
• Keep staff focused
• Educate them via seminars and meetings
• Compensate them via cash awards and bonuses
• Keep machinery and equipment in good repair
• Dont be afraid to get you hands dirty
• Listen, Listen, Listen

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Never underestimate your staff

• A football expert said this of Vince Lombardi
• He possesses minimal football knowledge and
  lacks motivation

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Never underestimate your staff

• Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four
  years old and didnt read until he was seven
• His teacher described him as.
• Mentally slow, unsociable and adrift in his
  foolish dreams.

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Never underestimate your staff

• Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for
  lack of ideas

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Never underestimate your staff

• Fred Smith got a C on his graduate paper that
  described his process for moving small
  packages..

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Never underestimate your staff

• Fred Smith got a C on his graduate paper that
  described his process for moving small
  packages..
• He formed the process into a corporation called
• Federal Express

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Key Point.

• Stay positive and promote a positive atmosphere
• Understand the thinking process of yourself as
  well as your employees

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Personal Strengths

• Understanding ones thinking process
• Better match of personality to job/coworkers

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Personal Strengths

• 1) Answer Questions
• 2) Fill out Yellow Sheet
• 3) Follow directions attached for triangle

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Personal Strengths

• 1) Directive
• 2) Expressive
• 3) Adaptive
• 4) Analytic

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Key Point.

• Understand what you are.
• Weaknesses and Strengths
• Learn, figure out, or test what your employees
  are
• Put in correct positions and working groups

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Management versus Leadership

• - Often the terms are used interchangeably
• Can we have both
• Is their a difference

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Management versus Leadership
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Changing Workforce
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Changing Workforce

• 1) Agriculture has the highest Hispanic workers
  37
• 2) Meat packing, Swine and Dairy
• Garden City, KS
• 1990 37 Caucasian 58 Hispanic
• 2000 7 Caucasian 77 Hispanic
• 3) 40 million Hispanics avg age 26 vs 39 Caucasian

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Changing Workforce

• U.S. Third largest Spanish speaking country
• There are more Hispanics in US than Canadians in
  Canada

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Why so many???

• 2009 projected we will be sort 10 million workers
• Hispanics more willing to work for what they
  consider a good job
• Meat industry, long hours, demanding work, on
  feet
• Diary industry, odd hours, on feet
• Strengthening on our work force
• Doing jobs that many dont think is worth the pay
• Doing jobs that Caucasians simply think is
  underneath them

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Why so many???

• 2009 projected we will be sort 10 million workers
• Hispanics more willing to work for what they
  consider a good job
• Meat industry, long hours, demanding work, on
  feet
• Diary industry, odd hours, on feet
• Strengthening on our work force
• Doing jobs that many dont think is worth the pay
• Doing jobs that Caucasians simply think is
  underneath them

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Preparing for Hispanics

• Understand culture
• - Family extremely important
• - Time plenty of it, more laid back society
• 2) Learn language
• - estimated increase in earning power
• 5,000 to 10,000 per year