Think Like an Entrepreneur - Become a Sparkplug

Attracting your workforce is more than just offering a job for pay!   

In the following, I will explain what businesses want in a worker but more important, what a worker wants in a business.   

If you can not offer a workforce environment, how do you expect to attract a workforce?   

Here are a few simple steps that you can start now.

Does your community, business, organization, church, and school have great customer service?   

Does it take someone yelling to get your company to respond in a urgent manner?   

Do you really care about your customer?

BELIEF - (Merriam-Webster)  

1: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing 

2: something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion : something believed 

3: conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based on examination of evidence.  

Have you ever tried to change somebody's mind? 

A belief is based upon a person's past.   

If you want to change the future, you have to understand their past.   

That is where Engagement is the right pillar.

Unity is being together or at one with someone or something. It's the opposite of being divided. This is a word for togetherness or oneness.  

Community is a unified body of individuals: such as people with common interests living in a particular area and a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society.  

When you put them together you get UNITY in your COMMUNITY.   

Why would you want anything but this in your building WEALTH.   

Attract the conditions that you wish to create.

TRUST  

a: assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something 

b: one in which confidence is placed 

2a: dependence on something future or contingent : HOPE 

b: reliance on future payment for property (such as merchandise) delivered : CREDIT bought furniture on trust                    Merriam-Webster  

Do the people that live in your community TRUST you?   

Do the people that do business with you TRUST you?   

How do you know? How can you gain their TRUST?   

Let me know.

Kindness  

When you look at the dictionary, kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate.  

Other synonyms of kindness are goodwill, warmth, tenderness, selflessness, and benevolence.  

What does KiNDNESS do for others and you? It is good for the body.   

Kindness has been shown to increase self-esteem, empathy and compassion, and improve mood.   

It can decrease blood pressure and cortisol, a stress hormone, which directly impacts stress levels.   

Are you growing your business with KINDNESS?  

Are you growing your community with KINDNESS?

Let me know.

INTENTION:  

1:  a: what one intends to do or bring about       

b: the object for which a prayer, mass, or pious act is offered  

2:  a: determination to act in a certain way : RESOLVE  

Are you growing your business with intention?  

Are you growing your community with intention?   

What is it that you intend to do?  

Let me know.

Merriam-Webster on Consistency says:  

a: agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole :     

             The furnishings and decorations in all the rooms reflect a consistency of style.  

specifically : ability to be asserted together without contradiction  

b: harmony of conduct or practice with profession      

             followed her own advice with consistency  

Does your community act with consistency?   

Let me know.

Meet Jay Cooper, entrepreneurial ecosystem builder extraordinaire!   Jay is in the Startup Weekend crowd in building Startup Communities around the world.   Startup Week is a celebration of entrepreneurship and the people shaping the entrepreneurial ecosystem in your city.  Provocative speakers - Techstars Startup Week features innovative speakers and thought-provoking roundtable discussions where you can keep on top of the latest technologies and trends.  Hands-on workshops - Jump in and join hands-on workshops and other activities with people who share an entrepreneurial spirit on topics relevant to your startup community.  Make new connections - Knowing you’re not alone can make all the difference. Startup Week provides participants many opportunities to engage and connect with like-minded individuals.  Celebrate your city - With dozens of sessions, an opening ceremony, keynote speakers, pitch competitions, happy hour events, and a closing party, Startup Week is the place to have fun while supporting your community.  You can find Jay at - email at [email protected]  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaycarlcooper/  Web sites are: https://www.jaycooper-media.com/ http://ciderfinder.co/  

Jay is in the Startup Weekend crowd in building Startup Communities around the world.  

Startup Week is a celebration of entrepreneurship and the people shaping the entrepreneurial ecosystem in your city.  

Provocative speakers - Techstars Startup Week features innovative speakers and thought-provoking roundtable discussions where you can keep on top of the latest technologies and trends. 

Hands-on workshops - Jump in and join hands-on workshops and other activities with people who share an entrepreneurial spirit on topics relevant to your startup community.  

Make new connections - Knowing you’re not alone can make all the difference. Startup Week provides participants many opportunities to engage and connect with like-minded individuals.  

Celebrate your city - With dozens of sessions, an opening ceremony, keynote speakers, pitch competitions, happy hour events, and a closing party, Startup Week is the place to have fun while supporting your community.  

You can find Jay at - email at [email protected]  

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaycarlcooper/  

Web sites are: https://www.jaycooper-media.com/ http://ciderfinder.co/

Acting in a responsible manner is an attitude. It is a lifestyle. It’s your action of how you talk to, talk about, think about, and treat the people who cross your path every day.   It is the environment that you create for you and others to live.   

Responsibility is an attitude as well as an action; a choice that can be broken into different meanings.   

Response - How you react and respond to any circumstance or event.  

Ability - Your choice and your talents. Your learning and your experiences.   

Be Aware of Your GAP. You have the Ability to Respond in ANY way.