W Darrow Fiedler asks, "Want to show your employees you care?" Use these fives strategies now!

1. 5 Exceedingly Easy
Ways to Support
Your EmployeesBy W Darrow Fiedler

2. There are numerous ways you can encourage your employees to give your company
their best work. A few things you can do to encourage them are the following:

3. 1) Use positive
reinforcement.
Positive reinforcement is a powerful tool
you can keep in your arsenal. The basic
idea behind this type of reinforcement is
that you reward a person for a particular
behavior or action. By providing this
person with something favorable in
response to his/her behavior or action,
he/she gets the idea that what he/she does
is good enough to receive mention and
accolades. This will teach the person,
without having to specifically tell the
person, that you encourage good behavior
and actions and discourage unfavorable
behavior and actions.

4. 2) Verbally
affirm your
employees in
the presence of
others.
Your employees get a double reward when
you affirm them in front of others. One,
they receive positive reinforcement from
you, and two, they get noted in the minds
of their peers as someone who did
something well. This spikes their self
esteem and gives them the affirmation they
need to continue to do good work. It sets
him/her up for a successful future, because
the company rewarded and noticed the
hard work he/she did.

5. 3) Tell employees
what the
consequences are
for unfavorable
actions ahead of
time.
If your employees do something they
should not do and you did not tell them
they cannot do it, then the fault can only
fall on your plate as their manager. Make
sure you have a thorough list of policies as a
company on how employees should handle
various situations, who they should consult
in the process, and what they can expect if
they break the rules.

6. 3) Tell employees
what the
consequences are
for unfavorable
actions ahead of
time.
If you reprimand or even give the employee
the cold shoulder when they do something
they shouldn’t have done but did not know
they shouldn’t have done it, then you are
going to make them feel alone in the
company, reinforcing in their minds that
you are unfair and are not supportive. This
can only lead to bad things down the road.

7. 4) Award one
employee with
Employee of the
Month each
month.
If employees have performance goals to
reach, they will know that they have to
complete a certain set of various actions in
order to accomplish specific objectives in
place to achieve certain goals. When
employees are rewarded with employee of
the month, they can be encouraged to try
hard, because they will have a short-term
goal to focus on.

8. 5) Celebrate
employees
annually with an
award ceremony.
For longer term rewards, annual award
ceremonies are the way to go. This will
show employees that you recognize them
for all that they are, appreciate their ability
to plan long-term to accomplish tricky
objectives, and do not take for granted their
hard work all year long. Give out special
awards for different things such as going
above and beyond for clients, having the
highest sales numbers, or being the most
helpful to other employees in the office.

9. Thank You
for Watching!
By: W Darrow Fiedler