The New Era of managing employees
The New Era of managing employees
The most important and hardest part of one business is the relationships with the people in it. Many surveys and research shows a high amount of stress and toxicity in their workplace. In the desire for good results companies sometimes could create an environment that interferes with the employees from performing at their best.
What we can do to improve the working environment and create a supportive one? What does the new era of managing employees mean?
The short answer:
- Trust,
- Fairness,
- Empathy,
- Leadership,
- Collaboration,
- Communication.
To create a supportive working environment, those elements have to be well established in the company.
HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE THOSE AREAS?
You can start by defining what are the problems and what has to be improved with:
TWO-WAY FEEDBACK
Most companies have quarterly or yearly reviews for their employees but how good is the feedback from the employees if any?
In order to prevent unpredicted situations and surprises, you need to know how good is the working envierment in your company for which you need such feedback from your employees. How you can do it?
MAKE A QUIZ.
We have quizzes for our client’s satisfaction. Why not for the satisfaction of the people that take care of your business?
Make a weekly or monthly survey with 5 to 6 predefined questions. For example:
- How satisfied you are with your work?
- How satisfied you are with the work environment?
- How satisfied you are with your team collaboration?
- How satisfied you are with the collaboration with the other teams?
- How supportive is your manager in your professional development?
- What are your remarks, recommendation, proposals, and possibility for improvement?
Send it at the end of each week or month via your internal system or e-mail.
If you have an average or less than the average satisfaction level you need to have a discussion in that area to define:
- What exactly has to be improved?
- Why?
- How?
I would recommend the results to be accessible only to your HR team as you don`t want some problems to be lost or to be created more.
The target is to be notified as soon as possible for the first sights of bad work conditions, behavior or problems.
Such surveys also build trust with your employees showing them that you care about their work experience and their satisfaction working for your company.
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