Six Ways to Grow Your Employees

Whether you’ve got a small team or a large one, there’s something you could be doing to ensure you’ve got the best team: Grow your employees.

You’re probably thinking that growing your employees requires time and resources, and you’re right, but it’s well worth every extra hour and dollar. At SpaceTogether, we believe in growing our employees because when they are sharpening their existing skills and gaining new ones, they become better, more productive workers—and they’re better at helping organizations like yours. When you grow your employees, you’re taking care of them and establishing a powerful ethos for your company.

Having the willingness to grow your employees shows you care about them personally and professionally. We want your employees to be their best and most productive selves, and that’s why we put together this list of six ways that you can help them grow.

Six Ways to Grow Your Employees

1. Give constructive feedback and give it often.
2. Giving constructive feedback means telling your employees how they are succeeding and giving them areas to improve.
3. This is all about delivery. People need good and honest feedback, but if you’re rough around the edges, this can be unmotivating for many good employees. On the other hand, being too indirect about where someone can make changes is misleading and often unhelpful. Work to find that balance, so you can give your employees motivating feedback.
4. For more information about giving feedback and recognizing the potential in your employees, check out this blog post.
5. Delegate responsibilities appropriately.
6. This means choosing the right job for the right person, not necessarily the most qualified.
7. Your employees may thrive, or they may fall with new responsibilities, and it’s your job as their leader to use that experience to motivate and teach them how to do better.
8. Send your employees out for education.
9. This can be in the form of a conference, workshops, events, and anything that can help them professionally.
10. This will be one of the more expensive ways to grow an employee, but as we stated earlier, it is well worth the cost. Learning in an immersive environment can be a knowledge gold mine.
11. Offer opportunities for role changing, job shadowing, or lateral movement.
12. Doing this allows employees to develop skills in other sections of the company. This is important in giving employees a wider array of skills and can be a great alternative if you can’t move a great employee up yet.
13. Giving them a few different options for opportunity can help them feel more autonomous, and this will ultimately give everyone involved better results.
14. Professional development doesn’t always have to be expensive.
15. Offer employees the opportunity to read for more education courtesy of the company. Some employees thrive when they get to read about various techniques, stories, and processes, and this can be an inexpensive way to incorporate continuing education.
16. If possible, offer some paid time to read and help develop this new knowledge.
17. Offer opportunities to fix something they see wrong with the company.
18. There are obvious limitations to this, but if there are processes that aren’t working well, give unsatisfied employees the chance to fix it.
19. This helps the company in obvious ways if it works, and if it doesn’t, it gives the employee a chance to problem-solve once again.

Before You Go

Work hard to grow your employees because they work hard for you. Growing your employees keeps them happy and productive, which is also a bonus for the company.

If your company has extra office space or finds itself in need of working space, let SpaceTogether help you find the right fit. You can visit us here or click on the little blue circle in the corner with questions!