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I am a professional speaker and trainer who works in the area of building trust & loyalty in the workplace. I am currently working on an e-book for organizational leaders.
I would be interested
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Building Trust and Employee Loyalty
posted at 10/24/2004 9:32 AM EDT
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I am a professional speaker and trainer who works in the area of building trust & loyalty in the workplace. I am currently working on an e-book for organizational leaders.
I would be interested in answers to the following questions: 1. What techniques have you witnessed Leaders using to build trusting relationships with Employees? 2. What organizational measures would you use to determine the cost of a lack of Employee trust? If you include your email address, I would be pleased to send you a copy of the e-book when it is completed. Wendy Phaneuf thetrainingsource.ca |
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Building Trust and Employee Loyalty
posted at 4/5/2005 12:07 PM EDT
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Although I have been an administrator for quite some time, my best perspectives on this issue come from my longer experience subordinate to other managers. The trust that I have felt with a handful of my past supervisors/companies lies directly in line with their honesty in their dealings with me, both big and small. I have had two supervisors over the years who were tough, demanding personalities with high expectations of me. Our jobs involve care for others and excellence must be expected at all times. As both of these supervisor (at different times) taught me the ropes, I learned many hard lessons about managing complex systems of people and information. A few times those lessons were very tough and my supervisor/s were the ones teaching it. However, I never once lost my trust for them and only grew from each experience. My self respect remained intact through it all and I am now well regarded among my peer group in my area. The difference between those two supervisors and others who never had my trust is that those two never lied to me. If they told me something, good or bad, I knew that I could act confidently based on that information. They never manipulated me in a negative sense, which allowed me to easily retain my self respect. Their actions matched their words and their words were always presented professionally, even when in a serious situation. Of course, those two also took good care to do their work with the highest standard possible, which validated all of my perceptions.
In will try to respond to your second question some time when I have another moment. Good luck with the book. |
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Building Trust and Employee Loyalty
posted at 5/24/2005 7:32 PM EDT
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Dear Madam
I would like to take this opportunity to contribute a little.as i hv got exposure in training and development.My views and observation how loyalty and trust developed as employees and employer's perspective. It starts from the very first day as orientation plays a very important role in this regards.My observation is that lots of companies does not boder to work on it.some companies does it rarely and take it easy,some gave them a manuals or CD to go through it. In my opinion its a six month to one year process of orientation.the immidiate supervisor get to take the new come in the process, introducing all employees , procedures policies etc as a duty. After 2 or 3 months time Head of HR or CEO of the company must call them over a cup of tea to know their vies and working environment in a very imformal group discussion,This is the the time when one see the added value that CEo's interested hving their view.This must be a routine exercise after every three months.then employee feel"to own the company"the motivation level going to peak at that time.employee work no for himself but for the company and feeel at home.. well this is my humble opinion fawwadsaeed@yahoo.com |
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Building Trust and Employee Loyalty
posted at 9/28/2005 6:57 AM EDT
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First: 9/20/2005 Last: 10/10/2005 |
1) Demonstrating that you care about the employees as individual people. For example, if you know that an employee's family member is very ill, you can give the employee paid time off or allow flexible work hours for employees to make up time. MBWA is a must for you to get to know the people and for them to get to know you as a living person who can be trusted.
2) Voluntary turnover rate is a good measure of employee loyalty. gilbert.anderson@sbcglobal.net |
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Building Trust and Employee Loyalty
posted at 9/29/2005 4:00 AM EDT
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First: 9/27/2004 Last: 9/13/2011 |
The best analogy I have ever heard is that building a trust relationship is like filling a bucket of water one drop at a time. Once this bucket is filled, one act can knock it over and spill it and it needs to be filled one drop at a time again. There are absolutely no shortcuts and even more important, there are no substitutes.
The only proactive option is to be diligently protective of that trust relationship and to be aware that isn't only actions that fill the bucket, it's perceptions of intent. I agree that voluntary turnover is a good indicator, I would add exit survey data to that - although the quality of the answers you receive depend on trust - so there you go. |
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Building Trust and Employee Loyalty
posted at 1/1/2006 9:58 PM EST
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First: 12/18/2005 Last: 1/1/2006 |
1. Building trustworhy relations depend on informality. I think the best way is to help people for anything they want. If one of them looks for a job for his/her relative, you can handle it. If you have an opportunity that your employees can benefit, you can share it with them. You can do something to colorise their social lives, apply business-variety models. You can represent good works and good moves of them in themselves. If a person makes sure you think about him/her as a person, he/she trusts you.
2. I will count you the factors that can be the source of that lack: managers' being inconsiderate, helpless, hopeless, cold, disrespectful, selfish, arrogant, cruel. Making double standarts, not considering about ideas. A manager is not trustworthy if he/she is passive across sub-employees or top-employees of him/her and does not consider his subs in front of other employees. |
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Building Trust and Employee Loyalty
posted at 1/13/2006 9:37 PM EST
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Always give credit where it's due. Afterall if you've given your subordinate the opportunity to do a new and hard task they deserve to get the glory when they succeed.
When a previous boss of mine gave me the opportunity to do a new and hard task and I delivered on time he got a great deal of pleasure from dealing everyone who mattered that I had done it on my own. His kudos came from being assessed by his superviser as an effective manager of his staff who was able to develop them and delegate appropriately. The issue of voluntary turnover needs to be looked at in perspective, if someone has been trained and developed and moves higher up in the organisation then there is value in that turnover and it needs to be looked at positively. |
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Building Trust and Employee Loyalty
posted at 4/5/2006 3:37 AM EDT
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First: 4/5/2006 Last: 9/8/2006 |
I think bets practices for generating and attaining loyalty of employee may be by constructing and nurturing a participative culture of communication I the company. Employees who undergo the organization's interest in his personal issues too will consider being fortunate and try hard efforts to perform and attain more attention.
I am really interested in your e book Regards Hussein |
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