Nov 14, 2011
Unfortunately managers easily feel burnt out and stressed due to the fact that their to do lists seem to keep growing and growing. On top of larger than normal lists of things to take care of day in and day out, managers are having to find all sorts of ways to effectively manage their employees as to keep them from getting stressed. All of this stress coming from all angles can make everyone feel overwhelmed and disinterested in engaging effectively with one another. So in order to help keep communication efforts at their best and to be sure that you and your employees are all benefiting, here are tips from managers that should help to encourage and inspire employees instead of create a pile of more stress and things to do.
- Avoid assuming your employees are good at everything or bad at everything. Different people have different strengths, and sometimes we are human and think because an employee is good at one thing then he or she must be good at all other tasks. When you do this, you could be missing out on areas where an employee can improve and grow.
- Keep your cool and never humiliate your employees. Managers have a responsibility to make employees aware of issues and job performance factors in a delicate way that gets the point across without humiliating them.
- One-on-one conversations should be a goal. This will help to build trust and better working relationships.
- Give feedback often. If you do not make it clear where things stand, your employees might never know. It is the manager’s role to offer feedback of all kinds to employees so that goals and achievements can be met.
- Avoid negative talk about your employees to their peers, leaders, and other management.
- Use common sense. At one point all managers were once managed. While people might respond differently to different tactics, the same principles apply.
