5 Great Ways to More Effectively Manage Your Employees

In order to run a successful business, you need to be able to effectively manage your employees. If you can’t your employees may be demotivated, less productive, less efficient, and more stressed out – leading to a higher turnover rate, and lower bottom line.

While learning how to effectively manage employees is not easy, here are five great ways to get started:

• Listen to your employees

Be open to your employees communicating with you and make it a point to attentively listen to what they’re saying. Don’t assume what they may be thinking, but instead give them the space to talk while you take notes and ask questions to clarify when necessary.

• Set clear goals

Always set clear goals that will let you employees know exactly what you want and expect of them – including any deadlines. The goals that you set should be specific and reasonable so that your employees have a clear direction that they can work towards.

• Track employee progress

Using employee control tools like Controlio to track employee progress can help you manage them more effectively. It can monitor employee attendance, work hours, time spent active or idle, and exactly what they’re doing during work hours.

Based on Controlio’s analytics, you can easily see how productive employees are, and how much time they spend on the tasks they’re assigned. It can be used as an on-premises or remote workforce monitoring software to give you insights into performance trends that you can use to make better decisions when delegating tasks and setting goals or deadlines.

• Motivate employees

There are many ways to motivate employees, such as sharing positive feedback, recognizing achievements, encouraging innovation, providing training and trusting them with responsibilities. Try different methods of motivating your employees and figure out which one works best.

Leveraging Controlio’s data can help to ‘test’ how effective your efforts to motivate employees are as you can monitor and check if it translates into an increase in productivity. Additionally its reports can be used to provide better feedback or recognize employees with high productivity.

• Care for the well-being of employees

To make sure your employees don’t become disengaged, stressed, or burn out you should take the time to care for their well-being. Host regular check-ins with employees and pay close attention to any early warning signs that they might be at risk of burnout such as a drop in productivity, lower participation during meetings, and so on.

Effective managers know that if they want their employees to be efficient and productive they need to take proactive measures. The five ways listed above are an excellent start, but you can’t just rest on your laurels and need to use it as a foundation instead.

At the end of the day effective management will take time and effort on your part. It will mean constantly being attentive to your employees, and making sure that the work culture you foster is positive and constructive so that they’re able to thrive.