Fred Smith on training workers

Read a great article from Fred Smith this morning about training core leaders. So many great points in this article, and many points are applicable to any business setting, not just doing church.

“Development is based on improvability.” He says that we should train to someone’s strengths and not to their weaknesses. I recently read another article that mentioned the same type of thing. If we focus on our peoples good traits and good work skills and talents, many of the negative will fall away.

He gives Five Criteria for Trainers to measure progress:

1. Is this person's job fitting well with his or her talents?


2. How much willingness to do the job am I seeing?


3. How consistent is the person's effort?


4. What are the objective results?


5. Is this person willing to be evaluated?

He develops all of these in the article. Throughout, he gives little tidbits of wisdom that I know, and have forgotten. It’s always good to get a good reminder.