Every company, no matter how small or large, has a social obligation of giving back to the society. Charity done by a small organization located in serviced office space in Australia is as important as the work done by a multinational. Serviced office spaces are not only used by small business, even big business operate branches in serviced offices.
There are many people in the workplace who would like to give a little back to society and for a company that creates such an opportunity, it makes the small wishes of their employees come through. This helps build the company in the eyes of the society.
There is a saying that you only truly give when it cost you something. A company can choose to allow people to volunteer for charity as per the time allotted to them but this should not cut into their individual off day, else it is more the individual contributing than the company. The charities that can feature in the list for companies could be HIV+ children, cancer awareness, children with autism, physically or mentally challenged children etc.
The effort that needs to be put in can be as much as coming up with an idea to raise funds for the company associated charity or setting a small portion of the companies expenses to financially contributing towards the charity. The company can set up an event like a running or cycling event which is open to the common people. This event can be made as one that is to raise awareness about certain concerns of people like autistic children or helping single mothers and the proceeds of this event can go straight to that cause.
Another important thing to remember is that the charities that the enterprise or office give, should be authenticated. Many a times it so happens that such fake charities come to the Directors and are very demanding in their claims. To get these people off, they are given what they ask for but when the company is approached with a real need, the need is turned down because the charity records are already full, which only speaks of feeding the conmen and starving the needy.
It is therefore seen that a company that focuses on its own growth and also on the people environment is what being people productive is.
Why don’t most of the small businesses survive? After much research and discussions, I found the answer. Most of them still follow the same old-fashioned leadership techniques – the ‘leadership-myths’.