Are you keeping your promises to your employees?

Are you keeping your promises to your employees?

I’ve made a few changes in the last few weeks. After being threatened with being fired if I continued talking about the situation publicly, I acquiesced, immediately regretted it and posted again. Then I was fired. I was looking back on my brief time with the company and the promises made and all my high hopes and I suddenly had one of those moments of clarity. It was never what I thought it was. And it never would be.

So, while I’m currently in a more private battle to be reimbursed for my investment, that could be very public very soon.

However, I’m looking forward to going back to my private life being private. I went public with this story because it needed to be public to be heard by the right people.

I’ve spent the last few days getting back into my research and webinars and podcast conference information. And I feel freer than I have in months. No texts in the middle of a project asking me to switch projects and then the next day asking why the first project was not completed.

I know you entrepreneurs out there are nodding. Whether recently freed from your employment shackles or soon-to-be, you like completing a project. The satisfaction of good work. The feeling of usefulness.

I get it.

Small businesses have such a wonderful opportunity to touch lives personally. Something that big companies struggle to do. You can reach out to customers and clients and build a relationship and you can create a company culture of honesty and integrity and know that everybody under your company roof is aligned with your same ideals.

Unfortunately, small companies can sometimes more quickly alienate customers and clients, because it is seen as more personal. Likewise, if you make verbal commitments or promises to your employees, and don’t follow through, they are likely to tell others.

Not everybody has 3,000 Facebook connections, 8,000 LinkedIn Connections, active on Twitter and Instagram and Pinterest and has a blog that has several hundred views a day. But everybody has somebody they will tell. It may move faster for the first person, but news still travels… period.



David P.

Home Improvement Expert Journeyman Carpenter, Web Developer & SEO, Graphic Designer, Print Broker & Recovery Coach

5 年

Very well put. Thank you for a willingness to share. Inspite of the fear of vulnerability that we can sometimes feel when going public with something, we help someone somewhere.

CathyLee S.

Sr Business Development

6 年

I can relate. Love this post-spot on!

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