Building confidence in your employees is very important, not just for you as a manager, but for the business as a whole. If you have employees who lack confidence you may not get the best performance out of them in the jobs they complete. This will lead to poor levels of confidence throughout the team and even organization as a whole.
Before you start looking to improve it, you need to investigate if they are lacking in it first. Through observing the behaviors of your employees as often as you can, by Walking around and just watching them every once in a while, you will stay in touch with what is going on with them.
If your employee brings up an idea with the prelude of "This may be dumb", or "This most likely won't work", Well those are signs they are not confident. By taking the time to let all your employees know that all ideas have merit, they will be less self-doubting when they do have the strength to bring things up.
Another clue might be if an employee sometimes becomes withdrawn or silent, especially when in a group setting, like meetings, or other team gatherings. This can also indicate that you have employees who are not confident working as they stand right now.
Talk to that employee by themselves and see if they will open up. If you find it has something to do with confidence, try and help out. Point out positive things that they do well and build their self-confidence by showing that you have confidence in them.
Those employees who seem to withdraw or are extremely silent during meetings may be lacking in confidence. They may have some fantastic ideas but are simply scared to share them, as their confidence is low.
By involving your people in meetings, those who are lacking confidence will usually be quiet during this time - many people are. They don't have the courage to speak up when it's needed, but if you do a round table discussion maybe they will open up more and that will help their confidence, as long as you ensure that what they say is valued and certainly not ridiculed by anyone.
Focus on making your employees know that you have an open door policy, not only for problems but for suggestions too. Impress upon them that no idea they have is considered stupid or unimportant, because you never know how many great ideas are sitting out there hidden by a lack of confidence to come forward.
As you take the time to improve employees' confidence, they will come out with more valuable contributions.
So, as you make sure that you let your employees know when they are doing something well, it really can make the difference and build confidence significantly. - 31984
Before you start looking to improve it, you need to investigate if they are lacking in it first. Through observing the behaviors of your employees as often as you can, by Walking around and just watching them every once in a while, you will stay in touch with what is going on with them.
If your employee brings up an idea with the prelude of "This may be dumb", or "This most likely won't work", Well those are signs they are not confident. By taking the time to let all your employees know that all ideas have merit, they will be less self-doubting when they do have the strength to bring things up.
Another clue might be if an employee sometimes becomes withdrawn or silent, especially when in a group setting, like meetings, or other team gatherings. This can also indicate that you have employees who are not confident working as they stand right now.
Talk to that employee by themselves and see if they will open up. If you find it has something to do with confidence, try and help out. Point out positive things that they do well and build their self-confidence by showing that you have confidence in them.
Those employees who seem to withdraw or are extremely silent during meetings may be lacking in confidence. They may have some fantastic ideas but are simply scared to share them, as their confidence is low.
By involving your people in meetings, those who are lacking confidence will usually be quiet during this time - many people are. They don't have the courage to speak up when it's needed, but if you do a round table discussion maybe they will open up more and that will help their confidence, as long as you ensure that what they say is valued and certainly not ridiculed by anyone.
Focus on making your employees know that you have an open door policy, not only for problems but for suggestions too. Impress upon them that no idea they have is considered stupid or unimportant, because you never know how many great ideas are sitting out there hidden by a lack of confidence to come forward.
As you take the time to improve employees' confidence, they will come out with more valuable contributions.
So, as you make sure that you let your employees know when they are doing something well, it really can make the difference and build confidence significantly. - 31984
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