Most people spend their time at weddings drinking and eating cake. I look for keys to making better managers, and therefore, better businesses.
We spent last weekend at my sister-in-law’s wedding, in Adana, Turkey. Her new husband is Turkish and the wedding was in his home town (where they now live). Here are 3 lessons I learned by attending my first Turkish wedding.
To keep reading, click here: 3 Management Lessons From a Turkish Wedding
And one more note, not in the article: Turkish food is awesome. Yes, yes, it is.
I’m so impressed with this article, and finally feel vindicated on at least one of your points. A year ago I was hired by a large bank to be the Senior Copywriter in their marketing department. I left a good job to take this position because the bank had a great reputation, offered long-term stability, wonderful salary, and great benefits. Unfortunately (and inexplicably), the all-female staff treated me like an interloper. And after one month I was abruptly fired because — as my supervisor said — I didn’t “walk around and try to make friends” with employees whom she had recently told me tended to be “cliquish and bitchy.” If employees aren’t making the slightest effort to coach and welcome a new employee, there’s a huge management problem. I did nothing wrong, but paid a heavy price for bad management. Too bad the bank’s HR department was (and is) clueless about the situation, because it is hurting its otherwise stellar reputation, built up over 150 years. They forgot that their employees were also customers, and “cliquish and bitchy” attitudes are unacceptable in a marketing department.
What a horrible thing to have happen! Bad manager, bad staff.
You really need to make an effort to integrate new people.
I just started at a company for a seasonal position. I worked there last year in a different area, seasonal as well.
The company first did a ” meet and greet” before officially hiring us on to show us the building, the seating, the culture and so on. Managers talked about the company. They then went an talked to as many us they could to say hi and get to know them a little. ( it was only an hour long ). I got the ” Hey how have you been ! ” as I already knew a lot of them.
Once hired in we got another bigger tour, info about everything you need to know, ( evact plan, tornado shelter, food areas, workout room etc ). By the way, all meals, snacks, beverages are on them.
We then got a present from them of candy, pen and a t-shirt. Training so far has been good. They know this stuff takes time to learn.
I can honestly say they truley want to be a good company and good managers and I think they choose managers who have that natural ability to start with.
I would love to stay there but they don’t retain a lot of people after the season is done.