Over the next few weeks I thought I might share some of my experience from business management. Comments and thoughts welcome, as always.
Principles of business management
Business culture
Managers and leaders determine the culture
It is important to remember that managers and leaders determine the entire culture of a business, even when they are not conscious of doing so. Typical examples include:
- time-keeping (if managers arrive late to work, so will their employees)
- lack of praise (if managers don’t use praise and encouragement often, neither will their employees)
- poor team culture (if managers don’t emphasize the importance of team, their employees will neither feel part of a team nor behave as if team is important)
Take a look in the mirror
If you either want to know how your employees are feeling or are concerned that the atmosphere and work ethic in your company do not feel right, the number one principle is to ask yourself how you are feeling.
If you are feeling unduly stressed, overworked, frustrated and working too many hours, the chances are that your employees are feeling very much the same. This of course means that if you want to change how they feel, you need to make changes in how you are working.
I will have more to say about that in future posts.
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