Mar 19 2009
Manager’s Guide to Improving Relationship with their staffs
A manager’s direct actions toward his or her employees often have the strongest effect on their motivation. Here are some recommendations:
1) Share your expectations.
2) Be fair.
3) Involve employees in goal-setting.
4) Keep employees informed.
5) Listen to employees.
By listening actively, you not only communicate to the employee the fact that you care about him or her, but you also obtain new information. You discover what works or doesn’t work—and why. You locate problems and solicit suggestions for solving them. When you help spread helpful information to other levels of management, you improve the organization as a whole. Also, The listener can steer the conversation by interjecting, posing questions, stopping the speaker, ending the conversation, or allowing it to continue. Listeners have the power.
6) Consult employees about decisions that affect them.
7) Delegate appropriately.
Avoid over-supervising employees.
9) Conduct career-development sessions with the employees.
10) Provide honest ongoing recognition for tasks well done.
