Four Ways to Nurture Your Employees

Updated: March 14, 2022 – Four Ways to Nurture Your Employees

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Challenging Situation

Nurturing my staff always has a challenge for me as they can comprise distinct characters and performance level. Is like seeding pins on to the board in growing my team. So, there are four ways to nurture your employees – training, connecting, challenging and coaching are the four ways for me to nurture them to greatness.

Nurturing employees is all about providing the space they need to grow and prosper in my team. To get fantastic at something, I must present them with challenges that force their mind and body to find the solution and connect them to their dreams and goals, which make it so relevant for them to engage.

Helping employees understand how their role fits into the strategy, feeding them the proper training and coaching them through the challenges of the job; is a winning recipe for outstanding leadership.

Following are the four ways to nurture your employees:

Training

Training is an integral part of workplaces in upscale employee skills. Through training, employees become more informed about their jobs, grow in confidence, and value their work and the company more; because this will cause improved performance and higher-quality work. Training is no longer optional. It is vital if you want to compete in the market.

Every employee is not equal. Each worker has different academic backgrounds, different levels of understanding, and all come from different environments. Naturally, some employees will be more skilful at specific tasks than others. Training serves to minimise this gap as much as possible and allows employees to work at equal capacity.

Connecting

Helping employees “connect the dots” in an organisation is another action of influential leaders. Connecting the dots means understanding why each department and each job are critical to the mission of the organisation. Outstanding leaders understand the whole task and can articulate that message to employees consistently and authentically.

Challenging

I saw extrinsic motivation for a long time as being the only motivator for employees. Give them public praise, more money, and prizes, and that should be good enough. More recent studies have shown that intrinsic motivators are just as crucial as extrinsic ones.

In his book Drive, Daniel Pink points out 3 critical intrinsic motivators: mastery, autonomy, and purpose. Knowledge implies providing the opportunity to get great at something. To get fantastic at something, it must present you with challenges that force your mind and body to find the solution; because brilliant managers understand what challenges help build mastery of their team.

Coaching

When faced with challenges, it is always good to have a useful “guide on the side” to help you through the challenge. Prominent leaders are that guide or that coach, that helps identify the goal. Good coaches meet you where you are. They allow you to determine what options you may have to reach goals and then set the challenges to lead you to success.

So, with the four ways to nurture your employees, we can conclude:

Nurturing employees is all about providing the space they need to grow and prosper in your organization. And because every person is unique, using a profile or assessment like Emergenetics can help a leader throughout the four ways to nurture your employees’ process.

Shapes add a level of awareness of what energies your employee and provide insight into how they naturally approach situations. Assisting employees to understand how their role fits into the strategy, feeding them the proper training and coaching them through the challenges of the job is a WINning recipe for outstanding leadership.

‘What the younger generation didn’t understand was that the grass was greenest where it’s watered.’—Nicholas Sparks.

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