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How to Keep Your Employees Happy with Their Jobs

July 15, 2014 by Thomas von Ahn

It’s basically common sense: happy employees make for a better company. While you can’t exactly force anyone to be happy with their work, there are definitely some steps that you can take as a leader to ensure that you’re making your business conducive to happiness.

Here are some of the best ways you can do exactly that:

1. Continually work on building relationships with your employees.

Just because you’ve had a good chat with an employee once doesn’t mean that you’ve created some kind of lasting, unbreakable bond with them. Think of your relationship with your employees as any other important relationship within your life; it strengthens over time as you continue to talk and get to know each other. Be genuinely interested in your employees’ lives, aspirations, etc. Find out some personal things about them that you may be able to make a connection with. While you shouldn’t cross any professional boundaries, you can at least break down some of the barriers that often exist between “bosses” and “workers” to help make your employees more comfortable with you.

2. Realize that you don’t always have to have the same opinions.

While it’s important that everyone in your company is aware of the company’s goals for growth and long-term success, it’s also important to realize that the people working for you may have different personal career goals that they’re working toward. Be open to these goals and do what you can to help your employees achieve them. They’ll be much more motivated to help you achieve your goals with the business if they know you’re helping them in return.

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3. Take it out of the office.

One of the best ways to get employees to let their guard down is to take the people from the office away from business grounds. Go out to lunch, have cookouts in the summer, have a day-long retreat, etc. It’s a great way to offer a break to your employees while getting to know them better in a more comfortable setting for them.

4. Show appreciation.

People love being told that they’re doing a good job. Show your appreciation for great work whenever you get the chance, whether it’s with a simple verbal “thank you” or with rewards or thank you notes. Give gifts at the holiday season as well.  Your appreciation goes a long way toward keeping employees happy.

Your business can only truly be operating at its peak efficiency if your employees enjoy working for you. Follow these tips and your company will continue to run like a well-oiled machine.

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Thomas von Ahn | Chief Elephant Slayer | Viral Solutions LLC
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Watch out elephants! This slayer of business challenges comes with 30 years of record breaking sales, marketing, operations, training and leadership experience . He has worked face-to-face with 100’s of small business owners as well as large firms. His love of creating, communicating, developing and executing results for clients shines with each project, publication and training event. His entrepreneurial spirit, passion, industry experience, education, problem-solving prowess, charismatic personality and been-there-done that attitude leads his client focused approach.

 

 

 


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About Thomas von Ahn

With more than 30 years of experience in B2B sales across various industries, Thomas has unique insight into both the offline and online sales sphere. It was during his time in the trenches that Thomas noticed a recurring theme: Though business owners are knowledgeable about their craft or trade, they often struggle to market and sell to their prospects. This realization is what prompted Thomas and his now business partner, Christine, to bring Viral Solutions to life. Since starting the company, Thomas has been able to assist countless business owners in developing a solid marketing plan based upon sound marketing strategy, then assigning the marketing tactics to a team of talented employees, and, finally, watching those actions unfold—his true passion.

Though Viral Solutions is on Thomas’ mind 24/7, he does occasionally take a break to cheer on the Green Bay Packers and enjoy his adopted home of Wisconsin. Much of his family also works at Viral Solutions, and this closeness with family and employees is the cornerstone of the Viral Solutions culture.

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