Your Employee is the pillar of your company who keeps your
company going and succeed. Their happiness and joy is the core to your success.
Below are some of the important things that you need to consider to make this
happen -
1) Right Direction - The most important factor that leads to
success of an individual is his right direction to achieve the goal. As Leaders,
we need to ensure that each individual is lead and fed with accurate
information about his/her goal, pointers on how it could be achieved through
the routine work activities and helping out as and when help is needed. Daily
stand-ups and informal touch-bases to understand if the right direction is understood
and results are produced is very important. Use the right process for your team
and culture to determine and measure the progress and outcomes. Never let slip
the right moment to correct a deviation from the set direction!
2) Empower to perform - Empower really means giving enough
time and space for the individual to grow and learn from mistakes without fear.
We need to trust people to apply their full potential at their work with close
guidance as needed. Allow them to use their right judgment and authority within
their domain and area of expertise to create an outcome. Clearly define to them
what is a success and failure. Allow them to see failures as areas of
improvement and events to learn. Be with them when they fail and guide them
back on track.
3) Give the right Motivation - Providing right motivation at
the right time will ensure that we build strong trust and fidelity towards
performing the job. Trust starts building right at the time when an employee
feels that he is being cared for. Right motivational acts should make the
employee feel that his job is rightly recognized, remunerated and is accounted
towards the overall progress of the company. To rightly motivate an employee,
you need to be a good listener. Understand his/her character and what really
means to him/her that will bring the full potential towards the job/activity.
Have 1-on-1s as necessary to have informal personal chats to help them open up
a bit so you can see what makes real sense for them.
