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Your employees are the bodies and brains of your company. Without them, there would be no success in your company, either in the short-term or the long-term. Many employees just don’t understand how important it is to have employees who are satisfied with their work lives. If you don’t have that, then your employees are not going to be as productive as they could be and they’re not going to help you bring your company forward.
And part of that satisfaction at work is having employers who try to gain employee’s trust and commitment. It’s so crucial that employers try to get their employees trust and commitment to the company. Again, without that, there is going to be no success in your company. Keep reading down below to learn more about the different ways that you can go about doing this and make sure that your employees are committed to the organization as a whole.
1. Make Sure to Have a Personal Connection with Your Employees
The first thing that’s super important for you to keep in mind is that you should be trying to build up a value based relationship with each and every one of your employees. Every employee should know that he or she is valued in a great way and that you want to get to know them on a personal level. Many people don’t think that you should bring personal stuff into work, but that’s not true. If you were to treat your employees like robots without any emotions, then they are not going to be very happy with that kind of relationship. Your employees are people with real human needs. They want to be connected with at work and that’s your job to be that coach for them!
It’s been shown time and time again that those employers who reach out to employees and try to get to know them on a personal level are much more successful than those who don’t. Employees are going to feel much more satisfied and important to the team when employers take the time to get to know them. Plus, it just makes work much more fun when everyone is on a personal level! You can either do this by having some drinks at the office or just going out to dinner with colleagues once in a while. Trust us when we say that this is going to do so much for your bottom line!
2. Inspire Your Employees
It doesn’t take a lot to inspire your employees to do better work and be better versions of themselves. Your employees are always going to be looking up to people for inspiration and as their employer, you are one of those people. You should be using your daily actions as a way to inspire your employees to do better and make the company out into the success you know it can be. They are going to follow whatever you do and try to mimic that.
For example, if you want your employees to be creative at work, then create spaces where they can be creative and show them how to do it. Put up a brainstorming wall and be the first one to come up with an idea. Be excited about coming to work as a way of showing your employee that it’s OK to have fun at work and fool around sometimes, as long as the work gets done.
3. Place Your Entire Trust in Your Employees
Of course, one of the best ways that you’re going to gain your employee’s trust is to actually give them trust. There’s no way that your company is going to be successful if you never trust your employees to do their own thing. Give them the tools and the resources they need, but when it comes to them doing their own job, then let them go forth. If your employees make mistakes, then that’s completely OK! Mistakes and failures are how we learn in the workplace and how we do better next time.
It’s been shown in business study after business study that those employers who place trust in employees to do their jobs themselves will find more success than constantly leaning over their shoulder to check what they’re doing. These kinds of employers are never going to give their employees a chance to grow and learn from their failures. It’s the same thing that happens in life. If your parents never let you learn from your failures, you’re just going to keep on doing the same thing over and over again without learning.
4. Give Your Employees a Path to Grow and Succeed In & Out of The Company
The most important thing that you can do to get your employees to commit to your company is to give them a path to grow and succeed. Without doing this, you are not going to be keeping many employees around for long. It’s been shown that employees don’t just want to come to work every day of their lives and do the same thing over and over again. No, employees want to grow and develop in many areas of their life. And these areas don’t have to be within the company or even with the same industry! You should be giving your employees the chances to grow and develop that they want.
And this can be done in a lot of different ways! You can give them access to online educational tools that they can use during a period at work or they can take some time off to use tuition-credit from the company to go to school. Or you can put on some different workshops about public speaking or selling skills. Or you can help them with their career path and come up with a plan together of where they see themselves in the company in five years. When you give these opportunities to your employees, you’re going to see a huge return on your investment.
There you have it! These are the top ways that you can gain your employees trust and earn their commitment to your company.
