Most managers sincerely try to create a pleasant working environment in order to support their people’s morale. However, they often repeat unnecessary mistakes that reliably undermine their team’s morale. The HR Communication website highlighted 12 such mistakes. Try assessing honestly whether you also commit some of these mistakes.
1. Insufficient training
You hire employees and expect that they will get up to speed by themselves.
2. Unclear expectations
You are unable to clearly say what you want, yet you criticize the team for not fulfilling your expectations.
3. Overlooking office politics
You view the employees’ problems as theirs, not yours.
4. Ignoring bad attitudes
Even though some of your people complain about a certain colleague’s attitude, you don’t do anything about it.
5. Meetings only for the purpose of complaints
You spend most of the time at your team meetings expressing your dissatisfaction with your team members’ work and then subsequently listening to their complaints.
6. Mandatory extra work
You force employees to perform mandatory volunteer services, which destroys the employees’ interest in any volunteer activities.
7. Missing link to the company mission
Your people have never heard you say how their work is linked to what the whole company is trying to do.
8. Threats
Instead of offering rewards, you want to motivate your people to change their behavior by emphasizing the consequences of what will happen if they don’t do what you want.
9. Unclear management structure
It is not clear to your people who their bosses are and to whom they are accountable. In extreme cases they don’t even know who their subordinates are.
10. Rewarding rivalries
Instead of supporting competition among teams, you put individuals up against each other.
11. Preferring customers ahead of employees
You do not realize that the customer is not always right and that your primary customers are actually your employees.
12. Searching for culprits
Instead of focusing on your people’s contributions, you focus on blaming for mistakes. You point your finger instead of looking for a solution.
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