Have your home protected from further damage by covering broken doors, windows and any damage to your roof or exterior. If you choose to do any temporary repairs or site protection yourself, be sure to keep track of all of your expenses. Your insurance company expects you to do this to minimize further damage.
Plastic sheeting, plywood, lumber or other materials can be used to seal or protect property that has been exposed by the storm. Take pictures to document damage then make temporary repairs that won’t endanger your safety.
Stay away from dangerous situations better handled by professionals such as downed power lines, trees that have fallen, and similar things that can impact not only property loss, but personal safety as well.
Take many photos immediately after the storm. Take video. Take copious notes. Catalog the age, quantity, model, value and manufacturer of everything you feel is damaged. Detailed record keeping will pay off down the road if your claim is processed. Never throw any damaged personal items away until your insurance company can determine its’ replacement value.
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In my last blog (part 2 of 4), I outlined the importance of attracting the right talented people to your company. You cannot develop talented people if you do not first attract them to the organization. For more on attracting talented people to your organization, please read part 2 of this blog series. Now let’s move on to developing the talented people in your organization. Before I begin sharing some of the things I have learned, let me make something clear: Only in the past few years have I begun to see some significant progress in this area; before that I was headed nowhere on this subject.
When you have the right talented people on the team, managing and developing them is pretty easy. Give them vision and mission, encourage them, set objectives with them, strategize with them on achieving those objectives, resource them, and GET OUT OF THEIR WAY! [Click to continue...]
In my last blog (part 1), I outlined the most important responsibility of the president of a company (no matter what). That responsibility is the Who in your company, the employees. The President’s number one commitment must be focused on who is representing the company. I outlined some of the blessings that come from being great at the Big Three: Attracting, Developing, and Retaining talented people. I also committed over the next three blogs to provide some of the keys that unlock the big three. In this blog, I will be focused on the first and most critical of the big three: Attracting the Right People to your company. If you do not attract the right people to your company, then no amount of development will change them into the right person and you certainly won’t be concerned with retaining the wrong people. Therefore, attracting the right people is simply foundational to having a great company. If we do not commit ourselves to this as leaders, then we will never reach our potential as leaders or as a company. [click to continue…]
