Reality Check: The reason why your employees are miserable.

Why do so many people despise their jobs?  Why are are so many seemingly ungrateful for the money they are earning every week?  The answer is buried under a sea of business rules and stereotypes of which most can be unearthed and disproved.  I will try to show you how to keep you employees happy, or even more so, productive.

Most of the problems workers face comes from a combination of two things. 
               The first is they do not know the creator of the business, the top boss, they most likely have never met him or her.  Therefore they equate that lack of interest in them as impersonality that the boss doesn't care for their employees, since they are 'never' around, and especially have never introduced themselves to their subservient 'kind'.   Of course as the leader of your business you do not think this way about your employees.  But it may be how they view you.  As their leader, the creator of the business, you hold the power to encourage, inspire and pass along the same zeal that you have for the business.  All this can be accomplished by knowing your employees, caring about them, get to know them on a personal level.  You will be surprised at how much an hour or two a week devoted to knowing your employees can help things like moral and productivity.  Oh, and they will get to know you too, at a personal level, instead of the stereotype that they have of you, the evil boss sitting behind his massive oak desk, trying to squeeze every penny for profit, while he whips his workers for more time and less benefits.  I know, I'm getting carried away.  All I ask is spend and hour or too a week, every week, shake their hand and thank them for what they do.  If you don't think they deserve that, think of this.  They are devoting the most precious commodity of their life to your benefit, the time that they are alive on this earth,  the best years of their life for most cases.  What you are paying them will never make up to the quality of 'time' they are spending working for your business. So try to appreciate them some more.  It will only help your bottom line in the long run. 

Trust me.

The Second thing I will write about tomorrow.  But for now, get out their and find out whose working for you. 

If you run a large corporation, make a few random phone calls every week and introduce yourself.