Highly Successful Companies and You
Recently I was asked by two friends, Mike Courtney and Mike Cholak, to give a short luncheon talk to a group of employees at the Matrixx Corporation. The request was for a talk that would be short, interesting to a variety of employees, and of possible day-to-day value.
I chose the topic of personal development. For a model I chose to use the "forced relationship" between what we would agree as "a highly effective company" and "an employee." In other words, take the recognized elements of a highly successful company and relate those elements to an employee.
The format of the presentation was to identify the components of a successful company, determine what components could be eliminated without harm to effectiveness (none), relate the components to an individual and finally encourage the internalization of the components into their day-to-day work habits.
This was a fun presentation to write and give. Hopefully they found it fun and of benefit.
Following is the final overhead of the presentation. It's a little limited
without the verbal component, but it should get the point across. I invite
you to try the relationship. It can be fun.
Component Product Production Quality Control Process Development (Improving the task) Products Research (R&D) (Improving the end result) (new opportunities) Advertising Public Relations -Creating the corporate image. Sales Marketing Accounting Corporate Management |
Company Solves a need/has value/appreciated Producing the product Insures Quality product How can we do the production better? How can we make the product better? How can we improve our results? What else can we make of value? Letting people know why they should buy your product. Selling and Distributing the product Planning and managing the promotion of the product. Measuring investment vs. return Managing and planning the process. |
Self What is our value? How do we solve a need? How much do we do? How well is our production line working? How good of a job do we do? How can we do the work better? What else can we do to improve our value? How can we improve awareness of our talents? How do we improve our image? How can we convince others to use our talents? How do we improve our career management? Assessing our options? Implementing a career plan. |