Do Your Employees Know What’s Expected of Them?

Do you have to micro manage every aspect of your employees, or do they know what is expected of them? Have they been properly trained, or were things busy, so they were expected to jump in and figure out a lot of stuff on their own?

Many employees are never fully and properly trained. Management then gets upset with an employee when they don’t do it a certain way. What type of emphasis are you placing on training in your business. Do you have a format you follow, criteria written down so you know they learn certain things? Do you just do it as you go?

Like most things, when you have a clear path, a written agenda, you can be sure each employee will get full and proper training, and in return do things the same way. We can’t expect employees “to just know”, if we don’t guide them with our standards, expectations and encouragement.

While you can’t mold everyone’s work ethic, you can be sure you’ve given them a clear outline of what is expected of them. If you haven’t, you need to relook at your training program. Do you have one? If not, this is a good time to start. Write down what you expect of your employees, what you want them to understand, learn and what each job entails. Not only will you have better employees, you’ll have better employee relationships because they know you took the time to train them right, and you want them to succeed.

[tags]employees, business, new hires, training, employment, biz [/tags]