9 Ways Leaders Accidentally Ruin Good Employees
These tips can help ensure a healthy and productive relationship between you and your team
Source | www.entrepreneur.com | Syed Balkhi
Being a good manager is hard. Here are a few ways business leaders get in the way of their employees and stop them from being their most productive, innovative and positive selves.
1. Holding unnecessary meetings
Meetings need to create value for employees, such as brainstorming ideas, reaching a crucial decision or coordinating work. If it’s about anything else, skip it. Give your employees back their time by choosing your meetings strategically. Go in with a clear plan of what you want to cover during that time and hold everyone to it.
2. Giving unclear communication
“Let’s make sure to finish the project by quarter-end,” sounds like a clear directive, but really, it’s not. Stakeholders have different timelines and contribute in different ways to that final deadline, so they’re not able to schedule their time accordingly.
