Lets say you have a subset of your workforce that is highly specialized. Also, this is in an area of business that you want to show to your clientel that you have expertise in. How would you demoralize your specialized workforce?
Follow these quick and easy steps.
1. Ignore training. Your highly specialized workforce needs training to be effective and keep up in that ever changing area. They want/need training. Decline all requests for training, no matter how cheap.
2. Enforce use of Chimp Tools. Force your highly specialized workforce to use stupid and embarrassing tools that you create. Make sure these tools are the laughing stock of the industry. Ensure that your specialized workforce MUST use these tools and that they have to continually apologize and make excuses for these tools. This way, your specialized workforce will be made to feel like chimpanzees operating a vending machine.
3. Ignore advice. Your specialized staff has good ideas on how to make your products better based on their expertise. Ignore it, no matter how stupid and embarrasing you will look.
4. Webinar to customers on retaining staff yet be clueless in your own implementation. Once you have done all of the above, then have your Specialized Workforce Pimps group webinar your clients on how to retain your specialized staff. Ensure you tell your clients that training your staff is important.