5 Things Employees Expect From Their Manager
12 June 2014
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When you manage teams, you often wonder what your employees expect from you. If you’ve never asked yourself this question, it’s time to do so. Understanding your employees’ expectations is fundamental to your success. Management is a job about human relations, based on mutual understanding. By understanding your team’s expectations, you build a foundation of trust and respect upon which to express your expectations.
So, in your opinion, what do your employees expect from you?
Clearly Defined "Rules of the Game"
They expect you to define their missions and objectives precisely within a defined period. If the mission and objectives of the period are not formally defined, how do you think you can evaluate their performance and ensure that they understand what you expect from them?
They also expect to work around shared values, implicit or not. It is your duty to indicate to your employees the values that govern the group and to which they must adhere to be integrated.
You must also inform them about the behavior you expect from them. This behavior stems from the previously defined values and can be formalized in a team’s behavioral charter, but it is important that it be well defined in advance.
Acknowledged and Considered Personal Expectations
Management is a human relations job. To manage effectively, you must take the time to get to know your employees, their personal expectations, and take them into account.
This does not mean that all your employees’ expectations must be met—far from it—but simply that they must be known and taken into account. This is an important element of motivation and employee retention.
Skills Development
Every employee aspires to progress and develop their skills and employability. Your role is precisely to ensure that each of your employees has the means to evolve and develop their skills.
To do this, you must know how to delegate, train, motivate your employees and above all avoid personal ambition leading to crushing teams rather than helping them evolve.
A Clear Vision of the Company’s Future
To live and evolve, a company must have a precise vision of the future of its market, its evolutions, and the role it wants to play in its market…
You must constantly remind your employees how the success of their work is important to the success of their department, which in turn contributes to the success of the company’s strategy, and to the realization of its vision for the future.
This way, your employees will see the meaning of their daily work, and will better understand how their participation and investment are important, even essential, for the sustainability of the company.
Regular Feedback
Any of your employees will always expect you to give them feedback on their work.
It is true that finding the balance between positive and negative feedback, finding the right tone, the right time, the right words is a difficult exercise, but feedback, even if it is not 100% successful, is 100 times better than no feedback at all!
So don’t hesitate to congratulate your employees when they deserve it; they will only be more motivated.
Take the time to review these 5 important points that reflect the general expectations of your employees, and if they are not already applied, don’t wait and act; you will only improve the performance of your teams and thereby your company!
Philippe Montant
CEO of ReKrute
So, in your opinion, what do your employees expect from you?
Clearly Defined "Rules of the Game"
They expect you to define their missions and objectives precisely within a defined period. If the mission and objectives of the period are not formally defined, how do you think you can evaluate their performance and ensure that they understand what you expect from them?
They also expect to work around shared values, implicit or not. It is your duty to indicate to your employees the values that govern the group and to which they must adhere to be integrated.
You must also inform them about the behavior you expect from them. This behavior stems from the previously defined values and can be formalized in a team’s behavioral charter, but it is important that it be well defined in advance.
Acknowledged and Considered Personal Expectations
Management is a human relations job. To manage effectively, you must take the time to get to know your employees, their personal expectations, and take them into account.
This does not mean that all your employees’ expectations must be met—far from it—but simply that they must be known and taken into account. This is an important element of motivation and employee retention.
Skills Development
Every employee aspires to progress and develop their skills and employability. Your role is precisely to ensure that each of your employees has the means to evolve and develop their skills.
To do this, you must know how to delegate, train, motivate your employees and above all avoid personal ambition leading to crushing teams rather than helping them evolve.
A Clear Vision of the Company’s Future
To live and evolve, a company must have a precise vision of the future of its market, its evolutions, and the role it wants to play in its market…
You must constantly remind your employees how the success of their work is important to the success of their department, which in turn contributes to the success of the company’s strategy, and to the realization of its vision for the future.
This way, your employees will see the meaning of their daily work, and will better understand how their participation and investment are important, even essential, for the sustainability of the company.
Regular Feedback
Any of your employees will always expect you to give them feedback on their work.
It is true that finding the balance between positive and negative feedback, finding the right tone, the right time, the right words is a difficult exercise, but feedback, even if it is not 100% successful, is 100 times better than no feedback at all!
So don’t hesitate to congratulate your employees when they deserve it; they will only be more motivated.
Take the time to review these 5 important points that reflect the general expectations of your employees, and if they are not already applied, don’t wait and act; you will only improve the performance of your teams and thereby your company!
Philippe Montant
CEO of ReKrute
