Friday, January 28, 2011

Strategies For Building Up Self Esteem In Your Business

By Dorothy Alexander


Most business owners don't appear to pay much attention to building up the self esteem of their employees. What you may not realize is the long term, positive results your business can yield from investing in this personal aspect of your employees. It is possible, too, that this approach to business growth just hasn't occurred to many business owners. Uncertainty about how to approach the task of improving self esteem may also be an issue. We would like to take some time to address this issue now. These techniques will help you build greater self esteem within your business.

To help build healthy self esteem and an employees sense of worth and value, you need to understand the importance of recognition. These opportunities often don't get fully taken advantage of or are neglected entirely. The individual contributions people make to improve your business should always be recognized and valued. This task, which can be accomplished in various ways, should be implemented throughout the various levels of your business. It is your responsibility as the owner and leader of your company to ensure that all levels of management within your company are made aware of this aspect of business dynamics. When people receive individual recognition on a personal level, it has a positive impact on them. Personal recognition as well as company wide are great ways to improve the self esteem of the employees within your organization.

You should avoid openly criticizing or reprimanding any one openly. This leads to extreme embarrassment and humiliation in the person receiving it and it is highly unprofessional, as well. No one, including your business as a whole, will benefit from the resulting side effects and repercussions. After being treated like this, people tend to become resentful and more negative about their work place and towards the person who inflicted the embarrassment. Discussing such matters behind closed doors and in private is a much better alternative. Handling the matter as professionally as possible is also important.

You will have an immediate impact on your employees sense of worth if you let them know that you care about them. Having someone in the work place that employees can talk to about serious problems is one method of accomplishing this. Such concerns can be best handled by your human resources department. You will find that some people may be too embarrassed or uncomfortable to make use of this option but there will be some that will.

The available methods and strategies for improving self esteem in the workplace are typically small in nature. But don't let that fool you as these methods are very effective. The little things are what usually counts the most and have the most far reaching impact. Cost is a major concern for businesses. These programs get positive results, especially those of a personal nature, and cost little to nothing to implement.




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