In most companies today, employees are skeptical and contemptuous. They don’t give 100 percent at their job because they feel their 100 percent doesn’t matter.
Employees feel their company can easily lay them off when there is a bad year or two in terms of the company’s performance.
Companies, on the other hand, do not want to invest (too much) in up-skilling their employees: if an employee acquires higher skills, the company might not have an appropriate job for that person, and he or she might leave.
It’s an endless circle—employees not committing 100 percent to their company and the company not committing 100 percent to the betterment of its employees.
What, then, do you do?
What companies and employees need to do is to matter more to each other as long as they are in one system.
Companies need to make employees feel and understand that their work matters.
In return, employees need to give their 100 percent and show that working for the company matters to them.
When the company matters more to its employees and the employees matter more to the company—it’s a win-win for both.
The present becomes better and the company performs better.
What about the future?
Both the company and the employee need to stop overthinking about the future if their goal is doing their best work.
Companies laying off employees, or employees leaving companies will always happen. There is little anyone can do about it. But as long as the employee is with the company, both need to genuinely matter to each other for a win-win to happen.
Matter more to each other to achieve a much larger win!