Developing the Potential of Your People
In today’s episode, Jody and Meghan discuss the four keys to developing the potential of your team in order to achieve success in the workplace.
Performance Management
Team Involvement
Recognition
Job Fit
Not only do managers play an active role in the growth and development of their employees, but it is also important to recognize the individual role that employees play in their own development. Individual opportunities for development increase employee satisfaction and retention rates.
Managing performance goes beyond just telling someone what to do. It involves regular communication, proper job training, reasonable expectations, and a clear way to measure success. As a manager, you want to guide your employees on how to do their jobs autonomously, and then you can provide feedback on what is going well and what needs to be improved upon. This highlights the importance of recognition. Pointing out that you recognize an employee’s efforts and letting them know you see that they are doing a good job increases motivation, and as a result, productivity increases as well. Don’t just provide feedback when something is going wrong. Let your employees know when they are doing something right.
The last piece of this is job fit. Assessments act as great tools for helping a company understand where their employees are likely to succeed and where they may need extra guidance. Assessments are not meant to discourage or encourage hiring certain employees. They are meant to serve as a resource for better understanding certain employee characteristics. One person may excel in one area of the job, whereas another person may seem to fall short. However, that does not mean that the person that “falls short” is not a great addition to the company. Their expertise may just be in another area, and their skills may be better utilized within a different department.
You as an individual can only offer what you have developed yourself to.
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