Most Popular Articles - by Phillip Thow

• The Business of Running Your Business Effectively
  How can you run your business most effectively? Running an effective business starts with employee/manager relationships. Creating a happy, healthy, comfortable work environment for all of your employees will put you on the path to an effective, productive, and efficient business, says Phillip Thow.
  
  
  Open Door Policy
  Keep the door open. Literally. Don’t hide in your office and stay out of view and access of your employees. Make the rounds. Interact with your employees and be sure that they know that the door is always open and that you are ready and willing to listen to concerns, questions, ideas, complaints and suggestions with an open mind and your undivided attention. Phillip Thow recommends making employee/manager relationship your top priority in your business management plan. Having healthy business relationships within the work environment will create a productive atmosphere and increase morale in the office. Being open to communicate with employs and approachable in times of stressful projects and tasks will remind your employees that you are on their side and that you are there to help not only the business to succeed but to help their ultimate success as well.
  
  
  Have a Plan
  Running an effective business means always sticking to the plan. Phillip Thow says that with an organized business plan, employees know their direction and their goal and are then more likely to reach that goal and work efficiently to get to that goal. Phillip Thow says that this organizational point is crucial I running an effective business, which in turn will be sure to have huge success.
  
  
  Monitor Progress
  If you don’t know what’s going on in your business, with your employees, you won’t know if progress is being made. Phil Thow says that it is imperative to always be aware of the progress being made on tasks and projects. Micro-managing this is not, but being mindful of where employees are in the process will ensure that issues are resolved and forward progress is always being made on tasks. And Phil Thow reminds us that by checking in now and then with an employee, we can take that opportunity to praise and verbalize our appreciation for hard work and a job well done. Thanks and appreciation go a long ways in making all employees happy and more likely to repeat good work.
  
  
  Reward Hard Work and Met Goals
  Phil Thow reminds us to always reward hard work and a job well done with verbalization and praise. An employee is more likely to repeat good work when they know that in the past that hard work has been noticed an appreciated. Phil Thow says that when goals have been reached, take time to point that out and celebrate achievements and hard work.
  Doing all of these things when running a business will make for an effective business and a comfortable, happy, efficient work atmosphere for all.