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How to Help Your Employees Meet Their Full Potential

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If you’re managing employees on a regular basis, you are aware if they are, or are not, meeting their full potential. Encouraging your employees to meet their full potential not only ensures that they will be happier, but also enhances workplace productivity and success. Here’s how to help your employees meet their full potential.

Assess Their Strengths

The first way you can help your employees meet their full potential is to assess their strengths. You can do this by observing them while they’re working and seeing what comes naturally to them. You’ll find that some employees are better at quantitative tasks while others are better at qualitative tasks. Some employees are better at short-term execution, while others are better at long-term strategy. Once you have a baseline of their strengths, you can start to help them meet their full potential.

Ask What They Want to Do

It’s important to ask your employees what they want to do and what potential they want to achieve. While a particular employee may be great at administrative work, he or she might have a passion for customer service. You will need to find the balance between what they like doing and what they’re good at to make your efforts fully successful.

Have Monthly Check-Ins

Once you’ve established the goal or goals your employee should be striving for, make it a point to check in with him/her regularly. This will keep your employee accountable, and it will allow you to assign new goals or tasks for them to meet consistently.

Encourage Them to Strive For Greatness

Above all, you need to encourage your employees to strive for greatness if they’re going to meet their full potential. This can be done by letting your employees know you believe in them and that you are rooting for their success. You will be surprised at how much people can accomplish when they even have one person believing in them.

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Criticism Sucks! Three Ways to Be Better at It

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If you’re in a managerial position, you may find yourself in the situation in which you need to give constructive criticism to employees. While constructive criticism is immensely helpful in guiding your employees to perform tasks the way you want, it can often be hard to deliver. Consider these tips on how to give constructive criticism.

1. Start the Interaction with a Compliment-

The whole point of constructive criticism is that you want your employee to change or modify their behavior to achieve a different result. It’s hard for a person to be receptive to any suggestion if they are on the defense, which is why you need to start the interaction with a compliment. Doing so will let the employee know you value them and their talents, which will make them that much more receptive to the criticism you’re about to deliver.

2. Deliver the Criticism as an Observation-

Delivering criticism as an observation as opposed to an accusation will keep the employee in the right frame of mind to be receptive to it. For example, there is a vast difference in tone if you say, “I noticed that you missed a few deadlines,” as opposed to “You never meet your deadlines.” Framing the criticism as an observation also shows that you care and have noticed it happening at least once, which makes them feel less accused and more part of a team.

3. Give a Helpful Suggestion-

If you don’t suggest a remedy or two about how to fix the issue, you’re not delivering constructive criticism – you’re just offering criticism. Take some time to come up with a few possible solutions before talking to the individual. This will make them feel like they have camaraderie with you and your conversation is less of a scolding and more of collaboration.

If you are looking for a job, whether it a short-term or long-term job opportunity, contact Award Staffing. Our team of hiring professional located in Bloomington, Chaska, Crystal, Delano, Maplewood, and Ramsey Minnesota to help you with your job search today! Want to learn more career tips and tricks – check our When Work Works blog.