How to Become an Awesome Employer

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care. ~John Maxwell

Being an employer is not an easy job. As a matter of fact, it has been one of the toughest positions that I have ever held. However, after 13 years of being an employer, I have learned how to be an employer that my employees love to be around.

A phone call that I received the day that I wrote this blog post, inspired this post. One of my relatives called me about an uncomfortable situation that she encountered with her boss. In fact, as I listened to her tell me what happened, I immediately recognized a lack of leadership in her employer.

 I coached her through how to restore her relationship with her employer and how to keep peace until she can find another job.

My Journey as an employer has been  filled with negative and positive situations. However, the most important thing is the fact that I have grown as a business leader and I have learned how to be an Awesome Employer. In fact, I have learned how to lead effectively and show people that I really care about them.

As I was preparing this blog post, I asked my Face book friends to describe an Awesome employer and here are some of the responses that I received:

• They should be a people person on some level
• Understanding but firm and not show favoritism.
• Love what they do
• Always be willing to do any task you expect them to do
• Show kindness 365 
• Be an advocate for your employees, especially in times of trouble. An employee wants to feel like his or her boss has their back at all times
• Be sure to tell employees when and what they do good and Thank them often.

I thought those were great responses and they are all so true. If you do not love people, being a boss is going to be a place of misery for you; understanding the people that you lead is very important along with being firm and not showing favoritism.  Most of all, you must love what you do or your employees will notice it and they will not enjoy working for you.

After years of supervising employees, with the help of reading many of John Maxwell leadership books, I have discovered many ways of becoming an Awesome Employer. 

Today I am going to share with you, 7 -Steps to becoming an Awesome Employer:

1. You must develop the leader within you by reading leadership books (see recommended resources)
2. Show people that you care for them.
3. Get to know your employees. Find out what they love.
4. Be a good listener
5. Lead by example. Model the behavior that you want to see.
6. Praise your employees, it just might make their day.
7. Allow them to communicate openly to you with respect and be sure that you establish reasonable personal and professional boundaries.

This is just a small list of things that you can do to and for more tips, check out my article, 10 ways to create a positive work place. 


To your success,
Shiketa

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