Set a Success Strategy
Kent Jacobson, a.k.a. "Mr.Success"

Every manager should have a success strategy in place that he or she can follow.  A success strategy is not only good for them, but it can also help their employees succeed as well.  By having a success strategy in place, you will be able to track your results, and then deal with any shortcomings appropriately.

In order to write up a solid success strategy you should get together with anybody who is going to be involved.  So if you are a manager, you will need to get all of your employees together in order to ensure that everybody is on the same page.  This can be done by setting up a meeting in which everybody will be able to contribute to the strategy.  One of the most important parts about putting together a success strategy is making sure that your employees believe in it.  And if they have had the chance to help you put the strategy together they will more than likely believe in what it stands for.  Employees will also be more prone to stick with a plan that they helped to devise.  If you decide to put together a success strategy without consulting with your employees, you may get a back lash from them when they come across something that they do not agree with.  So in order to avoid this problem, all you need to do is get everybody on the same page from the get go.

Also, when putting together a success strategy make sure you set goals to go along with it.  This way everybody will have something to work towards, and they will be able to feel a sense of accomplishment when the goal is completed on time.  On the other hand, if you fail to reach your goal, you will then be able to reassess your success strategy and find out where you went wrong.  If you have no way of tracking success, you will have no way of making sure that your strategy works.

Finally, make sure that you success strategy is worth while.  You do not want to set easily obtainable goals that do not take any hard work by your employees.  If you do this you are only cheating yourself as well as your employees.  Nobody will feel good about themselves if they only strive to be average. 

A success strategy is something that every company should have in place.  If you do not have one at this time, you should seriously consider it.  Putting together a success strategy is a relatively quick job, and with the help of your employees you will have no problem at all collecting ideas.  Do not overlook this much needed aspect of a successful organization.