It is thrilling to be a business owner because your business provides more than one opportunity for your employees. Business owners are often keenly aware that their businesses provide opportunities for the entrepreneur and customers. What some entrepreneurs overlook is the fact that their businesses provide opportunities for employees as well. In addition to enabling employees to earn a living to support themselves, business owners give the employees the opportunity to :
1. Care for family
2. Earn money for dreams
3. Gain experience
4. Interact with peers
5. Self-fulfillment
Care for family – Most employees work so that they can care for their families. A reality of life is that families need money for food, clothing, shelter, toys and other things. Paychecks provide the cash for these things.
Earn money for dreams – People often work to earn income to achieve their dreams. A business owner should not be upset if the job they are providing is not an employee’s dream come true. Instead, be happy and proud of the fact that the job you are providing allows another person to fulfill her dreams.
Gain Experience – Jobs like many things in life may be for a reason, a season or a lifetime. The job you are providing may be just for a season in a person’s life. If your job is a step along someone else’s journey, that is a good thing. It makes your business an important step in another person’s journey.
Interact with Peers – Some people treasure work because it is a chance to interact with peers. As a person who works from home, I can attest to the fact that the chance to interact with adults and to be able to bounce ideas off of peers in real time and face to face is a special treat. As a business owner, you provide this opportunity for peer interaction and community development.
Self-fulfillment – There are people who are like to enrich their lives through work. For these people, your business is a chance for them to work towards becoming a better and more self satisfied person.
Keep in mind that in all these cases, your employees are using your business for their own benefit. In fact, that personal benefit may be more important to them than your business is to them. That is okay! While these employees are working to get what they want from your business, they are working. If they are working diligently to achieve their goals, that diligent work benefits you and your business.
In conclusion, it is thrilling to be a business owner because your business provides more than one opportunity for your employees. So, the question for you this thrilling day is, what opportunities does your business provide for others?
Thank you for the reminder that the decisions I make for with my business not only affects me by my writers as well.
What does my business do for other? I share my life, savings, giveaways, product reviews. so I figure I am giving my fans information that they may or may not get from others.. especially when I share my trying times with my 17 year old other parents out their that may have issues with their children don’t feel alone
Small business owners sometimes don’t see what a big deal they are and that they really do help the world by giving someone a job or by purchasing goods and services from another person.
Good for you! It is your business and you can make it what you want. It is nice to own a business that provides nice extras for the family.
It is good to be in your position and to work for a company that provides for all of your well being. You have a dream situation!
Employees who feel valued and appreciated will be more loyal, flexible and do a better job.
Yes, when you are a solo practitioner, you must remember that you are also an employee and treat yourself well.
You are THE employee for your business and it is wonderful to have work that allows you to be where you are needed for your children when you are needed.
Yes. Your work enables you to help others follow their dreams. It is a beautiful circle.
And those things make you an asset to the company and the company an asset for you. A job can be more than just a paycheck.
Great post– my husband has a small business…sharing this post with him!
Great points! Hiring others creates a beneficial partnership that benefits us both. Thank you for writing this-Insightful!
Since I consider my blog my business, it enables me to make money to help supplement my husband’s income so we can afford more things that we want and need. And it has enabled me to meet a lot of great people through it. 🙂
Things that are very important for us to remember. I love to be able to hire out work, so that it lightens my load but it also givew someone else the opportunity to provide for their families.
I wish that some of the business owners I’ve worked for in the past remembered this. Sometimes it’s hard to have family time with the hours that some businesses schedule you, but you have to do what you have to do 🙁
My blog is my business, but it affords my family the extras. I used to treat it like a hobby and got no where with it. Now I see it as a business and I treat myself as the employee and my business is growing.
I have a small business, but its just me right now! But i love it!!
I would love to be a small business owner eventually, but for now I will enjoy the benefits my corporate employer provides to me and my family for every aspect of our well-being.
I’m going to answer on behalf of my husband’s company. His job has given us the ability to travel the country and great flexibilty so we can maximize our time together.
great post with great tips!
It certainly makes you stop, pause and appreciate. Thanks!
What a great post and lots to consider as well.
great tips, very encouraging!
Great post and a great reminder for businesses!
It’s so true, it’s so rewarding when you can hire out work. I don’t always have people working for me on a consistent basis, but even via freelance, it’s amazing- especially when we get to work together towards similar goals. I love the inspiration you have in this post!
Very nice post about what good employers offer their employees. .
More employers need to realize that their employees are people who have families they are responsible to provide for. So many companies see them as simply the labor pool and put unreasonable demands on their staff. Great post.
Great post! I am with Ange in that hopefully this can get back to employers !
Such important things to remember, I think people take it for granted.
Business owners do have a responsibility to the people they employ; and must always remember what the underlying values of the business are, so that they can put it
I hope that this reaches employers, it’s so important that they think of these things. I hope to one day be able to provide some of these opporutinites to people
I worked for a company that did all those things when I first graduated from undergrad. I didn’t realize how rare it was back then, but certainly do now. It’s a powerful thing to have a company really believe in its employees
It is quite enjoyable to help others with employment and it is something people should be thankful for.
It would be great to get to the point where I have employees.
This is a great post. I think it is so important for employers to remember these things.
Great post – you never want to be THAT boss. My husband and I both own our individual businesses, with no employees, so we have to remember to be kind to ourselves, too!
My business is solely for our family, meaning we don’t employ anyone else. But it offers me the benefit of being able to set my own schedule and be flexible so that I can always be there for my kids when they need me.
I agree with this post! What a wonderful opportunity to help someone else have a good job!
I view my online ventures as my business, though I do not have any employees. I have purchased services from others, however, and I think doing so allows them to provide for their family without leaving the comfort of their own home. Since most are moms like me, this lets them stay home with their children too!
My husband always loves that part also, being able to give someone a job!
Love this post!
It is such a blessing to be able to help someone else provide for their needs. My husband is always happy when he can hire a new person to work with him.
I totally agree with you. Where I work doesnt have much financial benefits but it gives me the opportunity to explore and reach for my goals without compromising my responsibility to the company
Great post… neither Hubby nor I work for anyone… we have a family-run home improvement business and I blog, so I totally miss all of these things that come from working for a company, HA