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Recruitment: Eight good reasons to listen to your employees

Grain Central, August 26, 2019

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GONE are the days where agribusiness managers spoke, and employees just listened.  For one thing, millennials and gen-Ys are taught to question things at school and university.

For some, it’s a no-brainer that we should listen to our employees, but sometimes we might get busy or become too distracted.

Here are just a few of the reasons why any agribusiness manager should listen more to their employees:

Staff Engagement:   If you don’t listen to your staff, they may stop putting forward their ideas and lose motivation.

Employee Retention:  Listening to employee concerns  or ideas can have a positive impact on retaining your key staff members.

Avoid a catastrophe:  Your employees may be able to signal to you where something is about to go wrong, or business performance is on the decline, which allows you to take action early on.

Develop Trust: Listening to your employees gives you (and them) the opportunity to build your relationship.

Being upfront: Your front-line employees in particular will be able to give you insights into what customers or suppliers are thinking, and by listening you can improve products and services.

Training gaps: Employees may be trying to communicate that they don’t know enough to complete their work to the required standard.  Keep an ear to the ground in order to ascertain if training is needed.

Signs of burn-out: You may not get this feedback directly, but listen out to hear if any of your staff are overworked.  Remember as well as the health issues which may affect them, if you had to replace their knowledge and experience it could really impact the business.

A happier and safer workplace: By listening to verbal and non-verbal cues, you can spot issues such as workplace bullying, discrimination and unsafe work practices.

As an agribusiness manager, should you ask for employee suggestions or feedback, be prepared to hear the good, the bad and the ugly, as it won’t always be positive.

Taking the time to listen to your employees can have many benefits.

 

Source: AgCareers.com Australia

 

 

 

 

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