You’ve got to stop abdicating YOUR responsibility for managing YOUR people to others!
Yes, delegate people management to your management team but, for the love of G*d, please do your bit, which is:
- Share your vision;
- Hold your managers accountable for managing your tribe to achieve the vision; and
- Support them every day
You have no right to complain about ANY employee of your business if you’re going to check out of your role as an Alpha Leader.
The skivers, under performers, apathetic, badly behaved and toxic employees. They are that way because YOU have allowed the unacceptable to become acceptable. It’s time to stop.
Once you start taking an interest in setting and upholding the standards, your workforce is more likely to enjoy coming to work for a reason, which in turn will improve your productivity, customer experience and overall success of the company. Don’t you want that?
No, I am not saying that you need to become a HR Director or spend your days ‘doing’ HR, quite the opposite. Your role will be to hold others accountable for doing that.
If you still don’t get it, go and find out how much you pay your workforce and then tell me why you shouldn’t make things better! ?