Be the Boss Your Employees Deserve
- 3h 26m
- Ken Lloyd
- Career Press, Inc.
- 2002
Here is a book that breaks the mold of how bosses view their employees and replaces it with an approach that is far more in tune with today's work force. In the past, many bosses focused almost exclusively on what they deserve from their employees-hard work, dedication, and cooperation. It is now evident that this framework provides only a small portion of the equation.
The most effective bosses of today complete the equation not only by considering what they deserve from their employees, but what their employees deserve from them. By approaching the role of boss from this perspective, there is a new range of steps that can be taken to generate and sustain employee productivity, loyalty, motivation, and teamwork.
Be the Boss Your Employees Deserve takes you through the entire process of building a work environment that is exactly what your employees want and deserve. There are key strategies to establish the most effective culture and climate for your team, as well as to implement the most compelling forms of communication, motivation, and recognition, just to name a few.
Some steps you can take to be the boss your employees can't stop talking about are:
- Treat them with respect and trust from day one.
- Take the time to get to know your employees as individuals.
- Take the time to build upon the skills, abilities, and motivation that your employees bring to the job.
- Be flexible when it is necessary.
When you view your role as boss from this standpoint, you will also find that there are steps to dramatically improve your effectiveness not only in hiring, educating, and appraising your employees, but also in setting a larger framework in which they are far more likely to grow, achieve, and succeed. By becoming the kind of boss that your employees deserve, you are truly creating a win-win situation.
About the Author
Ken Lloyd, Ph.D., is a nationally-recognized consultant, author, and newspaper columnist based in Encino, California. A specialist in organizational behavior, Dr. Lloyd has consulted in a wide range of industries, and his nationally syndicated workplace advice column appears in newspapers across the United States and in Canada. He authored the widely-acclaimed, Jerks at Work: How to Deal with People Problems and Problem People, and is co-author of the highly successful book, Unlimited Selling Power: How to Master Hypnotic Selling Skills. A frequent television and talk-radio guest, Dr. Lloyd received his Ph.D. from U.C.L.A., has taught in the M.B.A. Program at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at U.C.L.A., and continues to lecture at various universities.
In this Book
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Use Those 2 Little Words
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Stay in a Visionary Mode
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Anchor Your Actions with Ethics
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You Set the Culture
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Be a Cool Boss
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Communication: The Only Way is Two-Way
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Change the Way Changes are Introduced
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You Lead the Way
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Let's Get Motivation
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Recognizing the Importance of Recognition
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Ready, Aim, Hire!
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Let's Get Oriented
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Evaluate the Performance Evaluations
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Get to the Bottom Line on Training and Development
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We Can Go on Meeting like This
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Keep the Work/Life Balance in Balance
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Be the Boss for all Generations
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Making the Team
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Problem Employees and Their Solutions
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Handling Conflict with Confidence
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Look Before You Lay Off
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Checking Up on Yourself
