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Make A Workplace Difference - Manage Your People As People
| Guest post by: Martin Haworth |
Article Overview: Managers have pivotal parts to play in their employees lives. Depending on their choice, they can change lives for the good - or not...
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Make A Workplace Difference - Manage Your People As People
The managers of the world have a unique role to play in the wellbeing of millions and possibly billions of people.
Most people in employment have some sort of manager. With those managers having teams which might range in size from just a few to literally hundreds of people, you can see how the numbers their behaviors influence stack up.
The impact a manager has on their employees is immense, because however good the relationships they have between them, employees will always be at the very least be influenced by their manager and listen hard to what they say, usually believing what they hear.
Where a manager - usually through weaknesses on their own part - acts in what is known as a 'command and control' way, their bullying and often rude style will be all the more intimidatory, with cowering staff running and hiding on sight.
This sort of experience can be very damaging to a person and even permeate their whole life. From badly affecting their capability to deliver of their best and meeting their potential, right to the mood they take home with them at the end of the day, to vent their frustrations and disappointments on their family and friends.
In essence, the poor manager, who depends on their position to intimidate employees into line, is sadly affecting every element of that person. In large teams the damage can be immeasurable and, because employees are scared of them, the unsavory behaviors of inadequate managers can frequently go unnoticed.
There are many more managers like this than you might think. Are you one of them?
Contrast this with a better way.
Where a capable, confident manager is supportive, encouraging and positive with their employees, not only will the team results be much stronger - the people in the team will feel much better about themselves personally as well.
Their confidence soars; they take on additional challenges and they become much more creative in developing ways to solve problems and elevate their own performance.
In enlightened workplace cultures, brilliant managers are able to extract every sliver of potential from their people and they develop extraordinarily, delivering tremendous results for the team and organization along the way too.
They take this great feeling home with them and their family and friends enjoy a warm relationship, fostered by the enjoyable and respected contribution that the worker knows they are delivering.
Managers can make a huge difference to every one of their people (and, of course, to themselves as well!). How they choose to go about it is, of course, their choice.
They are able to be 'good' with people and see them for what they are: real human beings trying their best, to do their best - and acknowledge and support them in that.
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