{"id":1763,"date":"2008-06-13T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-06-13T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T07:29:08","slug":"10-ways-to-make-your-employees-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2008\/06\/13\/10-ways-to-make-your-employees-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Your Employees Love You"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the title of a great blog post written by Alison Green<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I am not sure that we necessarily need all employees to love us but I bet that her list (which I have paraphrased below) contains some insights and clues into how most of us could become MUCH better managers.<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t shout, disparage or attack people – nor employees, not customers, not bosses.<\/li>\n
  2. Be reasonable. Hold people to high standards, but that don’t demand the impossible.<\/li>\n
  3. Keep your word.<\/li>\n
  4. Make your team feel respected and valued: Act in ways that show you care about their quality of life. And don’t underestimate the impact of regularly making sure great employees know you think they’re great.<\/li>\n
  5. Solicit feedback. Ask for input on everything from how the employee thinks last week’s event went to what you could be doing to make her job easier.<\/li>\n
  6. Stay focused on results. Don’t have rules and policies for their own sake; make sure each is connected to an actual business need, and be willing to bend the rules if it makes sense overall.<\/li>\n
  7. Workout what people need to do their job better, and help them get it.<\/li>\n
  8. Recognise and take the difficult decisions as well as the easy ones<\/li>\n
  9. Be honest about performance problems.<\/li>\n
  10. Don’t assume you know what’s going on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n