Bringing Out the Best in Your Employees

As a leader, it can be challenging to give up control and trust your employees to get the job done. Some leaders need to be the smartest, best and most capable person in the room. Unfortunately, this approach can sometimes cause managers to underutilize their people and talents and restrict great ideas. On the other hand, good leaders recognize that when their employees are doing well, they are too. Capable leaders not only make their team members feel smarter, but actually become smarter and drive them to achieve extraordinary results.

Try to:

Avoid micromanaging

Empower your employees by allowing them to make key decisions related to their role. Trust the skills and judgement of your employees. Your employees will be grateful for your confidence and this will free up your time for other responsibilities.

Accept and acknowledge

Although it seems easy enough, many leaders make the mistake of accepting credit for a team’s success and passing off blame for their shortcomings. When your team reaches a goal make sure you give the right people credit and if an employee goes above and beyond, don’t let it go unnoticed.

Encourage feedback

Employees can offer fresh ideas and inventive suggestions, but often hesitate to speak up because they don’t feel like their opinion is valued. Communicate regularly to encourage their contribution through brainstorming sessions, surveys and suggestion boxes. This will ensure that your team is comfortable approaching you when they have a problem and will give you great ideas for the future.

Avoid gossip

Don’t get involved in or encourage office politics even if there’s no way of stopping it. Never share confidential information, complain about new policies or work results or discuss confidential information like salary, hiring or firing decisions.

Be fair

Meet and greet your employees, talk to them about their weekends and don’t shy away from being friendly. Just try to treat everyone fairly and consistently regardless of their role.

Be a Leader

A leader is one who inspires people to pursue a greater purpose and ultimately a vision. If you are not passionate and energetic about the work of your team and the organization, why should they be? Being a leader means living your vision and mission statement everyday with energy and reminding your employees that they are not just performing tasks and duties, but ultimately working for some greater purpose. Take the time to know the strengths of your team members.

We wish you and the team a great year ahead!


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