In our last blog before the holidays, I was telling you about the materials in Jim Rohn’s Weekend Leadership Event. I wanted to mention Mr. Rohn one more time, in view of the resolutions that some of us may have made for the new year. Let’s talk about some of Mr. Rohn’s suggestions related to personal growth. What? Do I hear you groaning? No, I’m not trying to talk you into some new fitness or sales goal. I’m suggesting instead that the principals and observations that Mr. Rohn makes about personal growth easily translate to challenges employers face - and to the work comp resolutions you've made for the new year. You have made some resolutions, right?
Successis nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every
day.- Jim Rohn
Disciplineis rememberingwhat you want.- David Campbell Founder, Saks Fifth Avenue,quoted in 100 Ways to Motivate Others by Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson
Will these changes get you to success overnight? Most of the time, no – but as with personal goals, if you change your thinking and your habits, your world will change!
First, he says, you have to study how to stay healthy
If you’re an employer struggling with work comp costs, it’s critical that you decide to engage in the study and practice of business processes that will eliminate your work comp issues. This is a commitment to read the latest blogs, journals, and books (and all that handy WorkCompEdge content, if you're a member) and to understand what a “healthy” business with low work comp costs looks like.
Second, you have to actually do what it takes to become and stay healthy
Of course we all know that only reading about good business and work comp practices isn’t enough. One employer recently told me that if they conducted a drug test on every job applicant they wouldn’t be able to hire anyone! Now, that seems like a problem to me – did I miss something? I wanted to ask if they had considered the liability cost of a deadly accident. To use the personal health analogy, you can’t be slamming back the junk food at lunch every day and not expect to eventually pay the price… which leads me to my next thought.
Daily habits matter
It may not happen until your forties or fifties, but a daily lunch of junk food will catch up with you. Conversely, let’s say you’re 30 pounds overweight and switch that junk food lunch to salad and fruit. Changes won’t happen overnight, but changes will occur. The point is, you can get away with errors in judgment for a while and fall into a false sense of “it doesn’t really matter.” But, as Mr. Rohn says, “everything matters.” Eventually, sloppy business practices – such as ignoring good hiring methodologies, expecting that a perfect safety rating is not realistic, or failing to train supervisors on their “soft skills” when dealing with injured employees - will cost an employer an enormous amount.
Do the disciplines
The daily, weekly and monthly business processes which we describe within WorkCompEdge will begin to transform a business and lower work comp losses. Will these changes get you to success overnight? Most of the time, no – but as with personal goals, if you change your thinking and your habits, your world will change!
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