{"id":1502,"date":"2012-11-23T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2012-11-21T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T23:47:15","slug":"whats-in-it-for-me-think-like-your-stakeholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in it for me? Think like your stakeholders."},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to best describe the motivation behind the action, think \u201cWhat\u2019s in it for me\u201d?\u00a0 Your employees, your shareholders, your customers, and your suppliers are all driven by this question.\u00a0 So why not put yourself in their shoes and develop your action plan and goals to help each of them to achieve theirs?<\/p>\n

Employees want to be challenged, appreciated, and rewarded for good work.\u00a0 So create a plan for each that will accomplish these goals upon successful achievement of their tasks over time.\u00a0 Be bold enough to ask each during their periodic reviews to tell you what they want to achieve.\u00a0 Be a good manager by creating paths to achievement that reflect those ambitions and allow the employee to measure success in a meaningful way during the effort to progress.<\/p>\n

[Email readers, continue here…]<\/span><\/em> \u00a0Suppliers need you to be a good customer, to pay a reasonable price for goods or services, to pay your bills on time, and of course to reorder when the time comes.\u00a0 But suppliers also want to know what makes you productive and help you win at your game.<\/p>\n

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Good suppliers want to create solutions to your needs and distance themselves from their competition.\u00a0 So meet with critical suppliers and challenge them to meet your needs, asking how they can help solve your problems.\u00a0 Both sides win when you take the effort to inform, challenge, and partner with suppliers.<\/p>\n

Your customers want to be treated as special.\u00a0 Each would like to know that they are important, genuinely important, to your success.\u00a0 Many would gladly share their problems with you hoping that you could provide solutions that would benefit both parties.
\nYour board members would experience a special feeling of accomplishment if they, as a group, could help you solve a problem that is strategic to the success of the company.<\/p>\n

But deep within each of these stakeholders is the question baked into our psyche: \u201cWhat\u2019s in it for me\u201d?\u00a0 You can unlock lots of energy, talent and effort from each of these stakeholders merely by thinking ahead and planning your approach in response to that simple question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to best describe the motivation behind the action, think \u201cWhat\u2019s in it for me\u201d?\u00a0 Your employees, your shareholders, your customers, and your suppliers are all driven by this question.\u00a0 So why not put yourself in their shoes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depending-upon-others","category-surrounding-yourself-with-talent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}