Strengths & Weaknesses | Managing Employees

Have You Maximize Your Employee’s Strengths

Maximizing an employee’s strengths is a more effective use of your time than improving their weaknesses. No one person is perfect — how do you gain the most from your employees so they want to perform at their best?

Focus on their strengths

As manager, your role is to provide clear expectations and coach your team so they are successful in their roles. Employees want to contribute and are more focused and engaged when they continue to build on their strengths.

Susan Sorenson, Gallup.com, wrote “How Employees’ Strengths Make Your Company Stronger.”

How To Deal With a Talkative Employee

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Studies show that employees that communicate and connect with each other during the business day increase productivity and helps with retention. Employees need roots in the company in order to feel a part of the organization and their relationships within the workplace help with their overall happiness at work. Some ways these employees connect:

brainstorming
over lunch
on Monday sharing the weekend with each other
water cooler is the typical image of employees gathering

They share their personal lives, work issues as well as gossip. Gossip is the one area you will want to help educate each employee of its potential destructive quality.

Strengths vs Weaknesses of Employees

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Are you the type of manager that concentrates on the strengths or the weaknesses of an employee? It’s important to know how you are evaluating your employees. Are you a demanding manager who focuses on those areas the employee doesn’t perform as well? Or do you recognize an employee quickly when they are contributing to the team. You will build a stronger team when you manage employees from their strengths.

To build a strong relationship with each member of your team ask yourself:

Do an employee’s strengths meet the essential functions of the job?

Manager…What Are Your Strengths and Weaknesses?

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In managing employees, you role is to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your team members. The more you know about them, the more you can coach them to higher performance. High performance employees are usually satisfied employees. So how do you go about creating the ideal work environment to create high performing employees…given your strengths and weaknesses?

You need to be honest about your own strengths and weaknesses.

If you resisted the thought of evaluating yourself, it’s really to your benefit to do so. The more you know about yourself, the more you can manage your behaviors, learn new skills or hire the right talent to handle areas you are not as skilled in.

Positive Psychology and Employees

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Being positive in any life situation brings about the best results. Viewing employees with a positive orientation adds value to the bottomline. Yet, why are so many managers frustrated and negative towards employees? Why do managers fear giving positive feedback to employees?

“5 Quick Ways You Can Bring Positive Psychology To Your Workplace” by Alexa Thompson on Forbes.com.

According to many reports, employees who feel satisfied, valued, and happy at work typically do far better than those who feel disgruntled or overlooked. These findings have led many corporate officers to implement “positive psychology” techniques in their workplaces. Some of these techniques require professional expertise to carry out, but the majority can be done by anyone, in any type of office setting.

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