If you want to understand how to manage employees you will need to think about what motivates them. I’ve used this countless times in my career. They key becomes incorporating it into a manager as coaching system that works for your company.
- Talk to them.
- Listen to them.
- Understand them.
- What do you do, how do you do it, if you could change your work processes, what would you change and why.
- How do you measure your results?
- Where do you want to be in 5 years – in this company, in another company or industry – why?
- How does this work help fulfill your personal and professional needs?
- Ask them if they have a different or better way to accomplish their functions.
- Ask them if they are excited about performing their work.
- Ask them if they have suggestions for a more orderly workflow in their team, the company.
- By the way – understanding how to better manage employees means that you need first to understand what motivates them.
- You may not have been hired as a manager – perhaps you were hired as an engineer, a salesperson, a software developer (insert your own beginning role).
- But you did an incredibly effective job in that role, so guess what – you were rewarded with a promotion (and more pay) to be a manager (of people of course).
- And you have had NO training on being a manager.
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