Knowing the tasks of your employees is key!

You need to understand your employees and what they expect from the organisation? How can you ignore someone who spends his/her maximum part of the day at workplace? There are some organisations where managers don’t even know the names of their subordinates. Organisations of such kind always face problems like employee dissatisfaction, high attrition rate and frequent conflicts among team members and eventually fail to do well in the long run.

As a manager, you need to know some basic details of your employees. You need to memorize the names of all individuals who are directly/indirectly reporting to you, their expertise, background, capabilities etc. Especially their expertise and capacities- they are things that are very important for employees. Because if your employees will have to do many tasks that don't match their interests of capabilities, they become unmotivated.

Most of its time and energy management spends in knowing the target customers, then why not know your employees as well who are so important for your organisation? Employees who feel ignored at the workplace seldom contribute to the success of an organisation. Take out some time to sit with your team members to understand their expectations, interest levels, grievances or any other problems they face in their day-to-day operations and so on. It is important for the managers to connect with their team members.

Knowing your employee not only strengthens your relationship with your team members but also make you a source of inspiration for them. Let your employees know that you care for them. Make them feel valued. Find out what is important to them, understand where they see themselves five years down the line, know in which all areas they can contribute their level best.
 

Knowing employees not only helps managers extract the best out of staff members but also motivates them to perform exceptionally well every time. As a manager, it is your responsibility to assist them in their day-to-day operations and help them achieve their goals and targets. You need to know what your employees are doing. A manager must be aware of the key responsibility areas and job responsibilities of all his team members.

When you know your employee also enables you to have a control on your subordinate. If you yourself don’t know the job responsibilities of your team members, how can you expect them to respect and most importantly trust you. Find out whether they have any problems in the organisation or not? Stand by them whenever they need your help. Managers need to acknowledge the hard work of their employees to expect a brilliant performance from them always. Knowing employees gives them a sense of recognition at the workplace. One feels proud to be a part of the organisation and eventually delivers his/her level best.