Archives for "Managing People"
Make New Staffers Feel at Home
Give departing staffers a fond farewell by all means, but put your real effort into “coming aboard” celebrations. Welcoming new employees fosters teamwork and encourages staffers to look ahead. Here’s some tips, host a welcome party within two weeks of a new employee’s arrival. During the festivities, best to be held late in the afternoon, hand out a short profile of the new hire to everyone. That information can serve as an ice breaker with co-workers.
When to Consider Self-Directed Learning
Self-directed learning can be a particularly useful strategy when:
- large employee populations have diverse training requirement;
- employees need individualized development;
- the same learning must take place concurrently at multiple training sites;
- a high degree of consistency is needed in training; and
- when high turnover rates require continuous training
How To Deal With Burned-Out Employees
Burned-out employees could fry your business, so you would do well to heed the early warning signs. Classic symptoms of burnout are apathy, lack of energy, irritability, making more errors on the job, frequent tardiness, and absenteeism. That’s an expensive employee to have on board.
Follow these tips to deal with the situation:
1. Urge burned-out employees to explore if and how their minds are contributing to their stress.
2. Invite them to talk to you as soon as they feel the early warning signs of burnout and work on a solution together.
3. Encourage them to say ‘no’ when necessary.
4. Reward your people. Showing gratitude for their hard work will go far toward solving your burnout problem.
4 Ways To Give Your Employees A Life
Today’s employees define success differently. They may be just as committed to their profession as earlier generations, but not at the expense of health, home, and hobbies. Four ways to manage your employees so that careers are in harmony with home life:
1. Rethink the five-day work week. Flex time, job sharing, and telecommuting are ideas whose time has come.
2. Don’t make your work habit the norm. You hurt your employees and your companies by establishing a corporate culture of workaholics.
3. Invest in dependent day care. Employees with dependents can’t give their total commitment to their work if they’re worried about their children’s or parent’s care. Consider providing dependent care as a fringe benefit.
4. When an employee sacrifices family for the company, give the family a present. Send a plant, tickets to the movies, or a gift certificate. You’ll encourage the family’s continued support of your hardworking employees.
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