What kind of employee do you think your employers planned on getting when they hired you? Someone who appreciates:
- The company’s need to make a profit and who feels a responsibility to help in every way possible?
- The need for keeping production up and costs down in order to compete successfully in the market?
- The importance of using tools, supplies, and equipment without unnecessary damage or waste?
- The importance of pleasing the company’s customers with the kind of work and service they desire?
Any employee who gives a company these qualities is a worthy hire. How would you like to have this employee, for example?
A customer who stopped by the garage to pick up his car had to wait a few minutes for it to be finished. As he chatted with the dealer, he pointed to a mechanic working on another car and commented, “How carefully that mechanic works.”
The mechanic, after wiping all the grease from his hands, gently closed the hood of the car, spread a clean cover over the seat, quietly meshed the gears, and slowly drove down the ramp. “No wonder,” said the dealer, “That’s his own car.”
The best employees in the world are the ones who work as though they were working for themselves—as though they owned the company, and as though they were also going to use the product or service themselves.
Do you?