by Sharon Jones
We might think that training and curating our team is not necessarily a responsibility of ours. After all, we pay them to do a job, and so it’s their purpose to keep on top of the tasks we assign to them provided they are employed with us. This is true. However, it’s important to ensure that you are doing everything you can to help optimize their work, their job satisfaction, and their ability. Your staff are the most unpredictable asset, not in terms of being unreliable, but regarding how quickly they can change depending on how much you choose to invest or not invest in their presence.
One of the most baseline and important things to consider, before training in excess qualifications, before having them come up with the most innovative ideas, is to allow their confidence to grow. All staff can only function when they feel secure and able to commit themselves to their work well, and so to that end doing everything you can to increase the energy of the office and their self-belief is essential, and is crucial to good team building.
With the following advice, you’ll see how this can be possible.
Communication
If staff cannot communicate well with one another, they will fail to feel like an integrated part of their team. This can be a problem, as it can restrain creativity, innovation, productivity, and also prevent staff from feeling as though they can adequately perform their jobs. It’s important to not only focus on the standard instant messaging and email applications, but also measures such as those offered by Think Technologies Group, as they can grant you and your firm a higher range of potential when outfitting the best VoIP solutions. This can improve communication immediately.
Trust & Deferring Authority
If you fail to trust your staff, they aren’t going to see this as failure of your leadership (which it would be), but an indictment of their practical skillset. There’s nothing more debilitating than a manager or a boss who does not believe in their staff, as the team member will feel a lack of control, of authority, of being able to work well in the employment they have. They may stop working as hard as they usually do, and just follow the bare minimum to get by. When you trust staff, the opposite happens. Deferring authority is strength, provided you give it enough time to prosper.
Ideas That Rise
It’s also important to try and allow staff the potential of submitting their ideas, and doing so in a manner that takes into account their insight or training. When even someone down the totem pole can put forward an innovative idea to help resolve a problem or tailor an approach, you may find that not only do the best ideas rise, but you are able to reward and credit said professional appropriately. This may even help your promotion decisions become that much easier.
With this advice, you’re sure to help your staff gain confidence.