Benefits of Making Your Executive Staff Work at the Front Counter

Benefits of Making Your Executive Staff Work at the Front Counter - Team Building Philosophy

Benefits of Making Your Executive Staff Work at the Front Counter - Team Building Philosophy
Do you really want to build your team at your company? Well, if you truly wish to have a well oiled machine that never misses a beat and if you want your staff to run as efficiently as the world's best Six Sigma Finite Capacity Robotic Factory, then listen up. What you need to do is get your executive team down on the front lines, where the battle is fought and market share is won or lost.
How so you ask? Simple, take a day off from the corporate crap and put you team out on the counters of one of your outlets, talking to customers and discussing with them how to improve your business model. Not only is this exercise money well spent, it builds unity amongst the executives and trust from the workforce. Incidentally this is nothing new.
Did you know that FED EX does this during peak periods, everyone does every job, it is one way to run a company and it means efficiency of labor supply. Ray Kroc (McDonalds Founder) had executives rotate each month thru the frontline employee rolls, yes that's right making Big Makes, working the registers and even cleaning up the lobby. It's all good, it keeps Ivory Tower syndrome from setting in.
Of course, what I am suggesting some would say has implications? Some might say that this is communistic in nature; equal work and everyone does the same job. But that is simply not so. You see, I fully believe that everyone should do what they are best at, and at the same time realize everyone else ought to understand how the system works and what everyone else is doing and why it works the way it does and everyone should be involved in the improvement processes of a company.
When people belong, buy-in and participate everything works so much better, so, Plato's comments that those who are specialists ought to be specializing and be alleviated from the things that they are not good at still holds true in my team building article here, we are still promoting efficiency. If you are not up on this reference and are an executive then read Plato's "Republic" or heck; go buy the Cliff's Notes version.
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