Learning Reflections

The saying “You are only as strong as your weakest link” really hit hard to me. I have invested in a business and we are trying to get it off the ground right now. When the teacher was saying that we need to make sure that we have a good team on our side I was really analyzing what kind of team I have with my business. Our business has had a couple of people fall short of what they said they were going to do so things have been getting off to a really slow start. Actually, we as the investors are taking over the assets because other people were trying to take advantage of us, so we decided to split up the company, but that is a completely different story and subject for another reflection.

It was fun having the guest speaker come and give us some good insights on HR and training employees in a company. He really gave some good points that were really helpful. I thought it interesting that “training ultimately impacts top (revenues) and bottom (profitability) lines in the company.” I never really thought that training was really that important, but I can see why it really is important. I liked his saying that, “Teaching someone new skills will improve their performance incrementally. Helping someone cultivate a passion towards a vision will increase their performance drastically.” We need to help people get motivated about what they are doing. They need to feel that they can make a difference in the company and can partake in the vision and objective.