Stepping Up During Tough Times
Manage Your Costs. Everybody is feeling the pressure to hold the line on costs or even lower costs. One key to manage costs is to invite your employees into the process. It's surprising the good ideas that employees come up with if you are candid with them and invite their participation. For example, my company (Portland General Electric) needed to cut our 2009 operating budget by $25 million. We shared the need with employees, brain stormed, and came up with the budget cuts without any employee layoffs.
Wes Friesen is a proven leader and developer of high performing teams and has extensive experience in both the corporate and non-profit worlds. A former in-plant manager, he is also an award-winning university instructor and speaker, and is the president of Solomon Training and Development, which provides leadership, management and team building training. His book, Your Team Can Soar! contains 42 valuable lessons that will inspire you, and give you practical pointers to help you—and your team—soar to new heights of performance. Your Team Can Soar! can be ordered from Xulonpress.com/bookstore or wesfriesen.com. Wes can be contacted at wesmfriesen@gmail.com.
