Following on from my last post, I left with the question of, “How many avenues of theft are there”?

With a lot of things we are always looking outside of ourselves for the answers when we really should have taken the time to look within. Before we start pointing the finger and blaming the economy, blaming theft, blaming the new business down the road and the list goes on and on, we need to do something. We need to take some time and ask ourselves some tough questions.

What am “I” doing that has caused all of these things to be perceived as threats to my business? This topic could go on and on for many pages which I may do at another time, however, to cut it short it all comes down to taking responsibility for our own actions.

Now, as for the topic of theft, what I was hinting at was that we may spend a lot of time looking at the persons on the other side of the counter and failed to look within at our own staff. Yes there is the question of trust and this might be a good time to find out whether your staff really trust YOU. How well do you communicate with your staff? Are they fearful of losing their jobs? Just a couple of questions we might ask ourselves towards knowing whether there is potential for theft to become a problem within you business.

I shall post again in a couple of days with further information on dealing with some of these issues.