What Makes a Company a Great Company?
What makes a company a great company to work for? Is it great health benefits? Is it a good 401k plan? Is it the salary? You can have all of this for your employees and they still may not be happy working for you if you don’t treat them right. If you have the attitude of, “Well you ingrates I pay you enough so do your job and don’t expect to be thanked”, chances are you are going to have disgruntled employees. Fortune Magazine recently came out with their top 100 companies to work for and J.M. Smucker’s was rated number one. The Co-CEO’s Tim and Richard Smuckers live by the code that their father Paul Smucker set for the company, “Listen with your full attention, look for the good in others, have a sense of humor, and say thank you for a job well done.” I think that would make a great mission statement for any company to follow. It’s so simple and yet so effective. Listen to your customers and employees and they will listen to you. Find the positive in others and they will respond. Find the humor in the situations around you. Don’t take yourself so seriously and be sure to show others you appreciate them. Maybe that’s why they say, “With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good.”