How to Train Good Employees
As a manager, you hold great sway over your employees. Your actions, whether intentional or subconscious, always affect productivity and morale for the good or bad. At the same time, it is crucial to manage with careful attention to detail, bringing your subordinates along to meet company objectives. If you follow a few basic principles, you will wind up with good employees who become a credit to the company.
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Things You'll Need
- An Understanding of the following:
- employees
- management
- manage employees
Instructions
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Have a thorough operations manual complete with company policies and procedures. This will ensure that everything you have not completely covered personally is covered in writing. A thorough operations manual is a necessity for good management.
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Be a consistent manager, avoiding hypocrisy. If you are guilty of saying one thing and doing another, you cannot 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 always give 100 percent, no matter how you feel. Your employees begin following suit.
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Increase employee responsibilities gradually. Give them limited reponsibilities at the outset and closely supervise them. As they gain mastery, give them more.
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Have your employees run meetings. It is good management to delegate this as events warrant, allowing them to take increased ownership. Note who takes charge and who does not.
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Ensure that employees complete actions. It is your job as manager to ensure that things are getting done; it's their job as employees to get things done. Notice who consistently produces timely results. Also note who writes weekly business action plans and who does not.
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Convey a consistent demeanor whether things are going well or badly. This will prevent employees from getting too up or down. Passion in what you do is important, but all-encompassing passion will both destroy your ability to focus and make you reactive, not progressive. Setting an even keel in your office will gradually alter temperaments.
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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 the next staff meeting.
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Tips & Warnings
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