At the end of each year, it’s a good opportunity to reflect and do a SWOT report on every aspect of your business. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. When you reflect on your progress as a business over the past year, make sure you also analyze your personal strengths and weaknesses as a manager. Your business and employees are only as good as their employer leads them.
Improve your managerial skills with these resolutions to help your business succeed this year.
Set New Hires Up for Success
It starts with a successful onboarding experience. Maintaining new hires onboard can be one of the most difficult parts of hiring. We can help you find and hire the perfect candidate, but when it comes to keeping them in your company, that’s up to you. Tips for Successfully Onboarding New Employees
Minimize Employee Burnout
Preventing employee burnout should be the number one concern to all managers. When employees are unable to be productive, the business suffers ultimately. Companies thrive when their employees do too. 5 Ways You Can Minimize Employee Burnout
Stop Micromanaging
One of the biggest activities that could negatively affect the progress of your employees is micromanagement. It’s important to know the signs and avoid becoming a tyrant over your employees. Signs You’re a Micromanager and How to Stop
Help Your Employees Reach their Potential
Going through the recruitment and hiring processes are time-consuming and stressful enough. You want to make sure your employees stay with your company. This is why it’s very important to keep your employees engaged and develop their skills, so they can take on more responsibility and grow within your company. Ways to Develop Employees to Reach their Potential
Create a Process to Better Manage Time-Off
Vacation time is important, but as an employer, it can be a headache. You want to encourage vacation, but it can be difficult with everyone taking time off at the same time. This is why it’s crucial that you have plans and policies implemented to avoid the extra headache and to be able to leave on vacation feeling relaxed. Managing Employee Paid Time-Off and Your Vacation Time
Encourage Proper Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is crucial. With long work days becoming the norm, employees are struggling to accomplish work-life balance and this is detrimental to not only the employee’s health, but also to the well-being of the business. Encourage Healthy Work-Life Balance for your Employees
Communicate Better
An attribute of a great leader is effective communication. Communication is about listening with our minds rather than just our ears. It’s also about coming up with the best words to send out the appropriate messages. Proper communication is crucial as an employer or else your employees work aimlessly and your business doesn’t reach its full potential. Strategies for Effective Communication with Employees
Create a Positive Work Culture
It’s a common misconception that cut-throat, high pressure, competition-rich work environments drive financial success. Research shows that workplace stress can be a result of the high-pressure environment and will lead to an increase in healthcare expenditures and resignations. Positive work cultures are proven to inspire creativity, productivity, and overall better team-building. Tips to Develop a Positive Work Culture
Increase Productivity
One of the biggest obstacles that all employers have to face is the lack of productivity from their employees. How to Increase Employee Productivity
Show You Appreciate Your Employees
Everyone likes to feel appreciated and better yet, recognized for their hard work. When you recognize your employees, and show your appreciation for their hard work, productivity increases and your reputation as an employer improves. Also, companies who recognize their employees experience a lower turnover rate. Ways to Show Employee Appreciation