Key to success: Make your employees happy

Employees are the backbone of any company or organization, and addressing severe work conditions plays a crucial role in their satisfaction. Keeping them content is the key to success for the organization. When employees are happy and satisfied with their position in the office, they are more likely to give their best for the benefit of the concerned organization. Here are a few tips that can help you understand their satisfaction level and requirements, ultimately making them happy and enabling you to get the best out of them for your business:

Try to be logical: You demand work from your employees but take care not to ask them for truly impossible. Don’t insist them to work in late hours daily and all weekend for something which is not urgently required. Don’t shout and force them to work in such a tiring and uncomfortable situation.

Keep your words: If you say something then let it happen whether it’s regarding bonus of employees, giving feedback on a project, liaising with another department. Do what you say you’re going to do, in whatever timeline you committed to. If you are responsible, then your employees will take your words seriously otherwise they will also be lazy.

Respect your employees: Your employees should be respected and their work should be valued. Do not underestimate and discourage them. You should act in such a way that your employee feels respected.

Care your staff: Companies must care about their people. If they don’t feel that the company cares about them, then why should they care about the company?

Ask a feedback: Seek a feedback from the employees about how the staffer thinks last week’s event went to what you could be doing to make her/his job easier. This will reflect their need and requirement. Value their feedback. Do not ignore them. Share their views with them.

Focus on results: Make sure that all the employees including you are focused on the central target of success of the company. Rules and regulation made should be logical and should be concerned to the success and goals of the organization. Do not try to make rules or policies to entertain your personal goals.

Talk to your employees: Have a talk to the employees to know their requirements in the job. Sort out their problems. Figure out their needs which can range from training and better equipment to the elimination of a counterproductive policy.

Face difficult situation and take solid decisions: In case the company get stuck in any conflict, do not avoid that situation. Have tough conversations, make decisions that may be unpopular, and enforce standards and consequences. Good employees will get frustrated and dislikes a manager’s passivity and avoidance of conflict. Just face it!

Speak honestly: Tell the employees about their performance honestly. Tell them the areas where they need more hard work and appreciate where they are doing pretty well. This will encourage them for further improvement and will energize them in a right direction.

Keep Probing: Be vigilant about the happenings in your surroundings and ask questions like:
Are your employees satisfied?
What are their needs at workplace?
How’s their workload?
What part of their job are they struggling with?
What improvement is needed at work?
What are the obstacles that are making their jobs more difficult?
What are their goals for their job and their longer-term future?
How should you help them?

You need to speak with them openly on certain issues. So don’t avoid these things and keep your employees happy and go ahead!