How to Make Our Truckload Business Feel Like A Small Business

Large companies tend to create an environment that places an emphasis on results rather than positivity, friendship and employee recognition. Small companies often create an atmosphere that fosters camaraderie and ensures that everyone is involved in business decisions. To keep that small-company feel when your company expands, create a strong relationship with employees and help them feel that they’re important to the company.

 

Step 1

 

Communicate with employees daily. Large companies tend to have so many objectives and goals that they forget to focus on the employees. Instruct managers and supervisors to communicate with employees on a personal level by talking to them each day. Talking about the weather or how the employee’s life is going makes a big difference in making the company feel more like a tight-knit group of family members rather than a group of strangers.

 

Step 2

 

Implement a system so that employees can easily voice their concerns and ideas. Large companies sometimes make it difficult for employees to talk about what’s on their minds to anyone other than their coworkers. Avoid making employees fill out five forms just to address a concern they have about a hostile environment; streamline everything so that employee ideas and concerns are heard immediately. Institute an open-door policy and instruct managers and supervisors to immediately act on concerns employees may have.

 

 

Step 3

 

Conduct regular meetings with employees and ask them to propose new ideas and solutions to problems. Large companies that retain a small-company feel do so by giving their employees a purpose. Involving your employees in company decisions makes them feel as if they’re part of a team working together.

 

Step 4

 

Infuse the workplace with a positive, laid-back attitude. Some large companies reek of corporate culture, where employees are pressed to deliver results and laughing, smiling and positivity are drowned out by pressure and negativity.

 

Step 5

 

Provide regular incentives. Rather than only rewarding employees with promotions or raises every few months, offer more frequent incentives, such as gift cards and free products. Show employees that you appreciate their work.