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EMPLOYEES NEED SOMETHING to shoot for — a guideline to let them know whether they’re succeeding. In a jewelry store, that’s often a sales goal.

Gene the Jeweler, the fictional character created by marketing specialist Jimmy DeGroot, lets his staff members set such goals themselves. Which is to say, there are no sales goals.

“That’s sort of the beauty of how I run this business,” Gene says in the video below. “Everyone has the freedom to go and be the best ‘them’ they can be.”

They’re basically free-range employees. Gene doesn’t want to impose his own definition of success on anyone else.

If the business adage “what you measure is what you get” is true, you have to wonder what’s in store for Gene’s business.

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Gene the Jeweler’s ‘Free Range’ Employees Set Their Own Sales Goals

Jimmy DeGroot is a jewelry store manager who has been in the business for over 20 years. Now he spends his time training teams around the world at jewelrystoretraining.com and sharing marketing advice through his blog site at jewelrymarketingguy.com. Sign up for training videos here.

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