Do you own or manage a company that asks for employee feedback? Are you an employee of such company? Today Rick and Brandon talk about employee feedback. What you expect, what they expect and how your initial introduction to a potential employee can set the culture of the entire relationship.
We will be drawing on some ideas from: Can your employees speak freely? By James R. Detert and Ethan R. Burris from the Harvard Business Review, January- February 2016
- When you first meet with a potential employee, do you make them feel like they will be valued? Does your body language convey that their input will be considered?
- Do you ask for employee feedback regularly? Make a regular schedule using surveys, questionnaires or meetings?
- Is your request for feedback specific? You should list questions that get to the meat of issues and not dance around them?
- Do you come across as the type of boss those powers over people? Try to tune down the power relationship between you and your co-workers?
- Do employees think it is futile to bring up ideas because managers or owners would not do anything? Create a system of response and follow-thru.
Moral: Employee feedback can be business payback.
Source: Can your employees speak freely? By James R. Detert and Ethan R. Burris from the Harvard Business Review, January- February 2016
