You have all met those employees who procrastinate and wait until the last minute to get something done. They rush through to meet a deadline or task in hopes to outsmart those who are the powers that be.

In business, this can be a warning sign of either boredom or the employee feeling dismissed. In reality, if the company has team leaders and everyone is a specialist in their specific part of the process, boredom or laziness would never happen among employees.

There Are No Small Players in Your Business  

If you don’t believe the idea that there are no small players in your business, let’s take the example of putting together a tricycle for a child. You lay out all the nuts, bolts and screws included in the kit to put the bike together. As you build the bike, you notice that you are missing a tiny little screw. It is tiny, so you think, how important could it be…so you continue to put it together.

Well, the tricycle is now finished and looks perfect. So your child gets on it to peddle away, but wait…it won’t move! Your child cannot peddle because something is preventing them from peddling. So the entire tricycle is stopped from its function because of one tiny little screw.

So every single employee is extremely important to your business’s process, and should be held accountable for being that critical to the process. All of your employees are there because what they do is part of the collaborative effort of the success of your business.

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