{"id":165,"date":"2017-07-06T04:13:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T04:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=165"},"modified":"2018-05-30T19:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:55:45","slug":"embrace-change-and-talented-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/embrace-change-and-talented-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace Change and Talented People !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There seems to be a growing fear among some employers that somehow talented employees will over-throw them if they engage them in their business. I have seen this attitude first-hand in recent years \u2013 and have been on the receiving end of this attitude also. How narrow and small minded !<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Astute business owners don\u2019t fear talented employee prospects \u2013 they embrace them. Such employers understand the powerful positive difference that talented employees can make to their business, and typically will define a well-considered career path for them to try and keep them engaged in the business for as long as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Once you have embraced a talented employee joining your ranks, allow them sufficient breathing space to bring new ideas to the surface: new ways of approaching processes, proposed adjustments to systems, a proposal to utilize new software, etc. The quickest way to quash the enthusiasm of a talented person is to deny them the opportunity to apply their talents. Conversely, the quickest way to bring the best out of a talented person is to empower them to work as autonomously as possible in their assigned role \u2013 and invite their contribution to (for example) the strategic thinking process with open arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Where change acceptance\/ resistance is concerned, I am aware that international meetings involving school Principals from a wide range of countries are concluding that the greatest skill that a student can develop going forward is actually the ability and willingness to adapt to change \u2013 to be able to transfer and apply their knowledge and skill set to varied organizations; for it is predicted that the era of \u201cstay in the same career forever\u201d is now over, and a person can expect to have multiple careers across a number of organizations during their lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a growing fear among some employers that somehow talented employees will over-throw them if they engage them in their business. I have seen this attitude first-hand in recent years \u2013 and have been on the receiving end of this attitude also. How narrow and small minded ! Astute business owners don\u2019t fear talented employee prospects \u2013 they embrace them. Such employers understand the powerful positive difference that talented employees can make to their business, and typically&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}