Most people won’t put in the work to be the best.
BY TOMMY MELLO
For Inc.
Photo: Getty Images
If you were on a short flight, what would you be doing? Most people would just relax, eat, or watch a movie. Well, not this Olympic golfer.
All this guy did throughout the entire flight was crazy. He was watching his performance again and again–he analyzed his swings and divots in slow motion–and he repeated this routine hundreds of times.
As I watched him, I realized a powerful lesson: This is what it takes to be one of the best in the world.
Never stop training.
Want your employees to never stop growing? Never stop training them. And training is way more than just onboarding. Onboarding is a one-time thing. Training is a lifetime thing. We invest a lot of time and effort into the first 30 days of onboarding a new employee. But we invest so much more over the course of an employee’s career.
- What are the three to five KPIs?
- How am I tracking these KPIs accurately?
- What training do they need to achieve these KPIs?
Here’s another important thing that people miss when training:
Nail the details.