Permanent Employee: Best Practices Handbook

By Richard Renstone

The Permanent Employee: Best Practices Handbook is the only cutting-edge book for employees. This Handbook provides over forty-five life-altering employee best practices to positively impact any employee's career and livelihood. This Handbook is for any employee with an open mind, who wants to radically change their job situation and be on the road to career success.

 

The text will enhance your work performance by increasing your productivity and efficiency by teaching you new organizational techniques while transforming you into a team player. The essential information you learn will advance your career with promotions and pay raises, making you feel confident in any workplace. You will become a key employee, a valuable company asset, and be respected by management and colleagues.

 

Following the principles in this Handbook will positively impact your performance and organizational skills and substantially reduce your stress level. You will feel empowered when management takes your opinions and ideas seriously for the first time. This is all because you have taken control of your career and placed yourself on a positive path to a bright future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arthur Black Publishing (ABP)
• Release date: Nov 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9780997959635

Richard Renstone

Richard Renstone has been in the workforce for 40 years, with over twenty years of that time being spent as a permanent employee and more than 15 years as a contractor / consultant. The author has held many positions while working in many sectors such as, food industry, office machinery, industrial, energy, mining, publishing, manufacturing, IT, technical services, education, medical devices, industrial electronics, engineering and construction. Richard Renstone has worked for many industry leaders and during that time was very fortunate to work in many parts of the world including, Canada, USA, Columbia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Indonesia, Venezuela, Portugal, Australia, and Italy.

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Permanent Employee

Best Practices Handbook

Richard Renstone

Permanent Employee: Best Practices Handbook

First Edition 2016

Second Edition 2018

Copyright © 2016, Richard Renstone

Published by Arthur Black Publishing

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016961464

ISBN-10: 0-9979596-1-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-9979596-1-1

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Dedications

To my daughter Samantha

who didn’t have a chance

to take her first breath

and enter the world

CONTENTS

DEDICATIONS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

BEST PRACTICES

IT’S A WRAP

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

Introduction

If you have purchased this book you maybe a student, new graduate, newbie in the workforce or an experienced professional that is searching for information to enhance your knowledge, change a situation or circumstance at your workplace or in your career. Whatever it may be you have purchased the appropriate material to help you.

When people start searching for information its stems from a motive, that may involve,  learning about certain topics, enhancing  existing knowledge, or understanding a situation and circumstance that is uncomfortable, stressing or frustrating or all of the above. Having sound knowledge before making a decision or taking an action is in fact a best practice in life. However, Permanent Employee: Best Practices,  offers over forty-five life altering best practices in regard to your workplace and career. 

Permanent Employee: Best Practices Handbook is the only book of its kind written from a personal perspective based on over three decades of real world experience to help you regain a stronghold on your career, future and the power to positively impact your whole life.

This book delivers a set of employee best practices that will enhance your work experience by helping you: attain pay increases, gain real confidence, escalate popularity, build sound work-relationships, increase work efficiency and productivity and more.

Applying these life changing best practices in your life will give you the power to open new doors, by becoming a real asset to any company you work for now or in the future. All you need to do now is make a sound commitment and implement the practices until they feel as if they are a part of you and come naturally.

PERMANENT EMPLOYEE:

Best Practices Handbook

Best Practices

Employee best practices...what does it mean? Best practices by definition, are the best or most effective way, of performing certain tasks and procedures that are the most efficient, in business or at the workplace. So with this in mind, after over thirty five years of employment experience, I thought I would list some of the things I feel and consider are best practices for employees. I found that the best practices are an effective and efficient way of doing things and many are common sense.

Carrying out best practices will in fact make you a more efficient employee, improve your performance, increase your productivity and have you receive recognition from fellow co-workers and management. This could lead to, pay increases, improving work relationships, working with different groups or teams, a different position of higher stature and so on. Best practices are a positive whichever way you look at them.

There are many common best practices that all employees should execute regardless of their position. This book discusses best practices that will help you secure your job; make you valuable and a better employee. I have included over forty best practices that I feel are valuable and they all start with YOU.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Before you can accomplish anything in this world there must be goals and objectives. Goals are like all-encompassing principles that guide your decision making. For example, if your goal is to be a supply chain manager within five years, then the objectives are the specific steps you take to achieve the goal such as, taking supply chain management (SCM) courses at a local college or university to receive a certificate.

The next steps could involve transferring to the supply chain or procurement department within the company where you are employed. Then, proceed to pursue a supply-chain management certification which involves more courses and training. Furthermore, you complete some management courses or obtain a project management professional certification. In this example, your goals and objectives work hand-in-hand giving you direction and steps to achieve your goals.

Having goals and objectives are helpful because employees are usually subject to an annual employee review and assessment. This assessment allows the employer to understand what your objectives and goals are. For example, in the review, your boss will learn about your objectives, what kind of training needs you have, your career goals, what improvements you would like to make, and how you feel about your current job and so on.

TEAM PLAYER

Being an effective and valuable team player at your workplace is one of the most important best practices. This means that you leave your ego at the door, and are one of many that form a team with a common goal. As a team player, you are working collectively and collaboratively with a group force of co-workers to tackle tasks or projects on an ongoing basis. As a team everyone combines their strengths, weaknesses, brilliance and creativity to find solutions, creative ideas, innovations and direction and more.

Like the saying goes, Many minds are better than one. A team setting is my preferred environment to be a part of, because it actually plays a major role in letting people be themselves, allows people to have fun and enjoy being at work and gives everyone a sense of belonging to a group or team.

BE A HELPER

Be open to helping others and develop a habit of helping. Helping your co-workers and other colleagues is a bonus for everyone. By doing this you are cooperating and helping not only those in need but also contributing to the big picture that boosts your popularity and reputation with all your co-workers.

This best practice sends out a clear message to all colleagues and management that you are supportive, willing to take time to help by contributing your time, knowledge, and expertise. This results in reducing co-worker stress, providing resources to meet deadlines and making colleagues feel supported.

Be aware that there are some individuals who will take advantage of your helpful soul for their own benefit. That’s okay because the universe will take care of them accordingly.

SUPPORT YOUR BOSS

Supporting your boss, supervisor, manager, or senior manager and so on, is a best practice. Supporting management is how a true employee hierarchy works. Your boss or manager is responsible for the overall decision making, productivity and efficiency of the department or group. The manager is also responsible for all team members training and performance, as well as, any issues or problems within the department or group.

The team ideally supports the manager and the department. All team members in the department or group have a responsibility and duty to support their boss to the best of their ability, in order to make them shine. So, when the boss shines this is a reflection on the department or group and the whole team in that group or department.

When your department looks good, this migrates up the ladder to the senior manager, director, and all the way up to the VP responsible for that entire division looking good. In others words, an outstanding performance of employees and departments or groups runs uphill and most importantly never goes unnoticed. This enhances your chances of being asked to be a part of other teams or groups in the future.

STORMIN NORMAN

Providing ideas and speaking your thoughts to a group, to your manager, or in a team discussion or brain storming session are an excellent way of showing that you are participating, a team player and that you care. Many people however, are too shy or scared to state any ideas or thoughts because they fear being ridiculed or feeling stupid.

Not to worry since in a true team environment, any idea is a good idea and those who ridicule others, are not team players because they in fact lack self-esteem. When you are blurting out your thoughts and ideas, they may not be the actual idea or ideas the group grabs and runs with, but it is a part of turning a simple discussion into a very lively brain storming session. As you provide your ideas, others will be encouraged to open their mouth as well.

The reason brainstorming works is everyone has an open mind and collaborates with each other. As soon as one person verbalizes an idea or thought, this will trigger ideas and thoughts in others in the group and so on. Besides, there are no egos, all of it is very productive, and lots of fun for everyone. I personally love participating in these kinds of brain storming sessions.

NO HEAD BASHING

Head bashing or being head strong and argumentative is not in your best interest. In fact, head strong type arguing is a sign of weakness and egotism within the individual. This kind of arguing suggests that the individual is trying to change people’s opinions, because they believe that their idea, facts, solution or whatever it may be is the only one that is right or the best. Generally this kind of arguing with others is frowned upon, unproductive and only creates anger and tension between co-workers in the workplace.

Sometimes there are exceptions to these types, since arguments, disagreements, heated discussions, being right all-the-time and winning is what these types enjoy. They are those you may unfortunately have to work with who are bright but self–centered, egotistical a-holes that in truth are weak individuals. These know-it-all types are a one person team and are only liked by very few like-minded ones. They don’t care who they hurt or humiliate because they only want to win for themselves.

However, if you offer constructive argument which is healthy disagreement, 99.9% of the time it is well received. In a true team environment, there is no head bashing only the odd disagreement. Most activity is collaboration and participation with everyone in the group all thriving to fix the problem, achieve a goal, and come up with a solution and so on.

Another point about argument is that at times you may have the right solution, idea, facts, comments or evidence to win an argument. Nonetheless, many times it is better not to be the one who wins the argument. I say this because, even though it may not be your intent, it usually ends up in shunning the other person or people, making them feel humiliated or inadequate and so on. In these kinds of situations nobody really wins and it is in your best interest not to focus on winning, but to relay the information openly with no ego, bias or forcefulness.

At times we can also get involved or pulled into situations and discussions with hot heads that usually escalate into an inflammatory argument. In this situation just remove yourself from the discussion by walking away. Or alternatively, you can also let the hot head, know-it-all take over and metaphorically let them hang themselves without helping. Besides discussions, arguments, disagreements are a part of having productive meetings. Most importantly everybody is working together because it’s not a one person show; it’s a team effort.

DO YOUR BEST

Anything that you do at the workplace or even at home, make sure you make the effort to do the best you possibly can. When you have this level of pride in your