Strategies to Show Your Employee You Care About Their Overall Well-Being

More than just employees, your staffers are actual human beings. Out of all the companies in the world, these people choose to work for yours — and that’s quite an honor. If you want to keep them feeling happy, engaged, and valued, you must treat them like humans first and employees second.

Numbers don’t lie, and 83% of highly engaged employees surveyed by TNS Research believe their employer cares about them as a person, compared with just 4% of disengaged employees. If you approach management as an all-business arrangement, it’s time to make things a little more personal.

Four Ways to Show Your Employees You Care

Help Them Learn and Grow

Rather than simply assigning staffers work at random, take the time to learn about their career goals for the future, and help make them a reality. Hold regular one-on-one sessions with each employee to check-in, address any concerns, and work with them to set their career in motion. Find opportunities to help them develop skills that directly relate to their ambitions for the future.

Get to Know Them

Each and every employee on your team is a person with a life outside the office. Show interest in your staff as people by taking the time to learn more about them. Find out if they’re married, have kids, where they live, what they like to do in their free time, etc. There’s no need to become best friends — which is not advisable at all — but people feel special when the boss treats them like more than a number.

Offer Generous Paid Time Off

Humans can only work so many hours per day, so many weeks per year, before achieving burnout. Show your employees you want them to enjoy a happy, healthy life outside the office by providing them with a fair amount of paid time off. From allowing them to take vacations with their family to not having to come into work when they’re sick, providing your team with paid time off is a benefit that pays itself back.

Be Open and Honest

Excluding your team from pertinent company matters that impact everyone makes people feel like they don’t matter. Always be transparent with your staff, even when the updates you have to share aren’t what anyone wants to hear. Including them in the conversation shows you value them as people, and want them to be in-the-know about everything happening with the company.

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