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Name: Growing Great Employees
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Author: Erika Andersen

Erika Andersen

Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers

4.1 (32 Bewertungen)

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Growing Great Employees
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What’s in it for me? Learn how to cultivate a team of great employees.

Humans have kept gardens for thousands of years. In fact, the invention of agriculture – gardening on a major scale – helped create the first civilizations, so the practice of cultivating plants has long been an integral part of our culture.

Yet, the skills and know-how we use in growing flowers, vegetables and trees can, with equal effectiveness, be used to grow employees. By following the rules of gardening, you can turn a weak and delicate sapling of an employee into a worker of tree-like strength and sturdiness, someone who provides your business with stability and a fruitful harvest. Sound bizarre? Well, these blinks will show you that great employees can be grown, and that any business can do it.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

how to stop employees from lying in interviews;
how to foster a positive environment; and
why even the best managers must sometimes prune away imperfect employees.

Employees are imperfect yet hopeful human beings, whose success depends on your managerial skill at growing them.

In a perfect world, employees would be perfect. They would perform tasks correctly, present outstanding ideas and ascend seamlessly from entry-level positions to top managerial spots. But the world is not perfect and employees are, like everyone, merely flawed human beings with a touch of potential.

Like plants in a garden, employees need careful, consistent attention. If they aren’t cared for, they’ll wilt.

So cultivating employees is like tending to a garden. It takes time, consideration, skill and knowledge. And if you learn how to cultivate your employees in the right way, you can help them to thrive.

Environment is the perfect place to begin.

Just as you can’t grow a cactus on a snowy mountaintop, you can’t expect a chatty, arty employee who is used to a flexible schedule to thrive and bloom in a silent payroll department that works strictly 9 to 5. She won’t be an effective team member in this environment. Even if you have the best intentions and outstanding people-management skills, it simply won’t work.

These days, considerate handling of employees is not only important, employees simply expect it.

Employees were once expected to do what they were told and then take home their pay. But today, employees are dissatisfied with this. They want to be stretched, to learn new skills and make noticeable progress.

If a business can’t cultivate its staff properly, it will find its workforce defecting to companies that care more about the development of their staff.

It’s therefore imperative that you grow your employees!

But how do you do that? In the next blinks, you’ll find out.

Grow employees in a listening environment and by finding the core competencies of each role.

What’s the first thing you should do when planning your garden? Prepare your soil! Without fertile soil, you’ll never grow hardy, healthy plants.

The same goes for your employees; everything should begin with a fertile environment. Create this by listening to your employees. By doing so, you can set up an environment where information is quickly and openly exchanged and where your employees are aware of their own value.

Use scenario-based interviewing to make better hiring decisions.

Choosing which plants to put in your garden is a bit simpler than choosing which employees to hire, because gardening stores conveniently label all their plants and affix tags to them instructing you on how best to care for them.

If only employees came with such instructions! A tag saying “works well with others” or “innovative if given enough space” would be a huge help! But, of course, getting the best out of your employees usually means a lot of guesswork. There is, however, a way to make this process easier.

You need a coach’s mind-set: You have to believe in your people and want to help them succeed.

Amateur gardeners often overreact when things don’t go as expected. Their plants look like they’re wilting, and so, instead of patiently waiting for an improvement, they douse them with fertilizer or water them to death. Neither of which, of course, does any good.

Similarly, we often react poorly when dealing with employees.

Make clear agreements and give feedback to ensure optimal employee maintenance.

You’re proud of the fantastic employees you’ve grown. But just as you take action to keep your garden growing, you must do certain things to keep your team flourishing.

While these things aren’t that difficult, they are not always exactly fun. So it’s best to do them well and in order. This will prevent any less-than-desirable results.

Delegate well and help your employees to take on more complex tasks and become managers.

When you take good care of a plant, you often get the pleasure of witnessing it bloom and grow into a beautiful bush or shrub. You can then take clippings from this plant and grow them in your garden.

And just as plants can flourish and propagate, so can your employees. Develop them in the right way and you could move them into higher positions. This is where delegation comes in. Delegating means providing employees with the chance to make their own decisions and learn from their own mistakes.

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try to improve them, employees will have to be removed from the team.

Some plants don’t grow like you thought they would, forcing you to give them more attention and time than you have. It’s the same with employees. They may also let you down and require more time and energy than you’d anticipated.

Over her career, the author came to realize that employees who fail to fulfill their basic responsibilities are perhaps the biggest source of stress and anxiety for their managers.

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Worum geht es in Growing Great Employees?

Growing Great Employees (2006) is about coaching, management and leadership. Using gardening as metaphor that runs throughout the book, consultant and CEO Erika Andersen cleverly explains how to successfully develop thriving and productive employees.

Wer Growing Great Employees lesen sollte

Aspiring life coaches
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Anyone responsible for other people at work

Über den Autor

Erika Andersen is a founding partner and CEO of Proteus International, a coaching consultancy that advises top executives on the best management and leadership techniques. Anderson is also an international speaker and has been featured in the New York Times and Fortune magazine.

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