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Ways to keeping your employees up to professional standards

Partner Contributor by Partner Contributor
July 26, 2020
in Business & Lifestyle, Business News
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As a business, it’s important to take care of your people. To treat them right, to pay them fairly, to give them a good level of working satisfaction. Little things, such as investing in employee parking, celebrating good work, or training, can keep people around. We must see them as much more than cogs in a machine, and as what they actually are – people. People who deserve respect and consideration.

However, while people always deserve respect and compassion as a basic standard, we must note that they are still people. Amazing, resourceful, hardworking, loyal, but also flawed. It makes good business sense to ensure that you give them the means to continue their professional standards. This includes encouraging them in this direction and weeding out those who try to take advantage as a result.

Even the most impressive employee becomes much less useful if they arrive two hours late to work daily. What measures can you put in place to ensure they stay at their professional standards, without imposing on them as people?

Drug Testing

While not all firms may think this is important, drug testing can ensure that important operations are staffed by people who are clear in their thinking. While societal acceptance of certain substances like cannabis can give the impression of their use being innocuous, it’s also important to ensure that anything other than a sober and calculating mindset can be a major detractor in many practical business operations. This ensures a standard measure of reviewing and keeping your staff up to standard. You can search ‘drug testing facilities near me’ to find the best services.

Measure & Fairly Assess Performance

Staff reviews can help you see just how productive or engaged a staff member has been, but they shouldn’t be seen as punitive reports. Instead, they can help you learn where you may need to train your staff, where they are struggling, and what aid they can use. If you are willing to work with them, and them with you, you can help build a stronger relationship with your employee and ensure you’re both on the same page. This builds trust, provided you handle this in the right manner.

Set Clear Guidelines

Setting clear guidelines is also an important baseline for your framework. How will you handle harassment? Often, with a no-tolerance policy. How should staff behave on their social media accounts? Ultimately, can this can be translated back to their place of work? If someone is posting multi-tweet threads about charged political topics, getting into countless arguments, you can see how this might damage your brand. A general expectation of decency and candor is a requirement in all workplaces. This ultimately carries out into our personal lives. Yet you cannot expect your staff to be aware of this if you aren’t clear about those principles from the offset.

With this advice, you’re sure to keep your employees up to professional standards in the best possible manner.

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