Things You'll Need:
- An Understanding of the following:
- employees
- management
- manage employees
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Step 1
Step 1) Training good employees is essential if you are going to grow your mom-and-pop business into a legitimate small business. The first step in training good employees is to have a thorough OPERATIONS MANUAL complete with company policies and procedures available for them to read from top-to-bottom--this is good management essentials. This will ensure that everything you have not completely covered with them through conversation is covered on paper. Having a thorough operations manual is a necessity for good management.
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Step 2
Step 2) The second steop in training good employees is to be a good MANAGER. You can't be the kind of manager who says one thing and does another and expect your employees to be picture perfect. Practice what you preach. Be the first one in the office in the morning, the last one to leave, and give 100% even when you feel bad. Your employees will start following in suit.
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Step 3
Step 3) Step 3 in training employees is incremental INCREASING OF RESPONSIBILITIES. Start your employees with few reponsibilities at the onset and micromanage them. Then gradually incease your employees' responsibilities as they gain mastery over their previous reponsibilities.
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Step 4
Step 4) Have your employees run MEETINGS. An important transition in the delegation of responsibilities--in good management--is having your employees run their own meetings. At these meetings, take note of who is taking charge and who is not.
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Step 5
Step 5) Ensure ACTIONS ARE BEING COMPLETED by your employees. It's your job as manager to ensure that things are getting done; it's their job as employees to get things done. Notice which of your employees gets things done on a timely basis, which ones write weekly business action plans, and which employees don't.
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Step 6
Step 6) Convey an EVEN KEEL DEMEANOR to your employees when things are going really well and when things are going really wrong. Passion in what you do is important but all-encompassing passion will both destroy your ability to focus and make you reactive in your business rather than progressive. Setting an even keel tone in your office will start to alter your employee's temperments.
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Step 7
Step 7) REWARD AND CONGRATULATE your employees when they have done a good job. People respond to praise and adulation much more than criticism and sarcasm. When someone has done a good job, let everyone in the office know about it at their next meeting.
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Step 8
Step 8) The preceding are tried-and-true methods of training good employees. I hope this article has been insightful for anyone reading this on good management.
