“Employee Based Management says if you want to get your business to the Second Level, you have to know carefully who your employee is, because s/he is the one to get you there.”
Implementing SWOT Analysis on your employee; it is an approach to know more about your strategic partner, and to start picturing him/her in clearer way to realize how to get the best out of him/her.
Take your full time to answer these following questions in a detailed-details-forum,as they will help you to deploy your employee’s resources is a positive-effective-appropriate way.
Strengths:
- What are your employee’s strength points?
- Do you use these strength points in the best way? How?
- What are the best ways to develop these strength points and to build on them to create effective-competencies? Why?
Weaknesses:
- What are your employee’s weaknesses points?
- To which degree do these points affect his/her performance?
- What are the ways to get rid of these weaknesses points?Why?
- To which degree do these points hinder the employee’s development plans?
- What are the reasons behind these weaknesses points?
Opportunities:
- What are the opportunities your employee can create for your business and you can create through him/her?
- Are you aware with the dealing and interacting style that will help your employee to create opportunities for you?
- Do you know where to invest in your employee?
Threats:
- What are the threats your employee would cause directly and indirectly?
- Where should not you invest in your employee?
- What are the dealing and interacting style that would lead to these threat points?
- What are the ways to eliminate these threats points?
After implementing SWOT, you will find yourself have a picture about:-
- Your employee’s strength points then to work on developing them.
- The opportunities you can achieve through your employee and your employee would create for your business.
- Your employee’s weaknesses points then to work on transforming them into strength points.
- The threats your employee would cause then to root them out.
The result is; you increased your employee strength points to achieve the opportunities you see through your employee.
Employee Based Management isn’t to give clear cut answers, but to let you tailored your own answers because your employee is a unique employee, so s/he deserves something special…
By: Hazem Hassan
Employee Based Management