How to Make Your Employees Love You

If you’re the boss, the employer or the owner of a company, you may realize how important it is to make your employees like you. Many employers strive to do anything just to make their employees like to work with them. That’s good, but if you really want to achieve the best of your workers, you should not just wish to make them like you, but you should desire to make them love you as a boss. Love yes love. If you don’t believe in love, then it’s your choice. But if you see that the people inside your workplace are not loving you and it affects your business productivity, then it’s time to embrace what love can do to your organization. Open up your heart and try to show some love to let your workers give their heart to you. Here are 7 simple yet very challenging ways to make your employees love you.


Make them love their job

Before you can earn the heart of your employees and make them love you as a manager or employer, you should first make them love a number of things. One of these things is their job. You need to assure that they are loving what they do. Thus, you should learn how to manage your employees effectively by assigning them to the right tasks and giving them the right responsibilities. As a manager, always assess and evaluate your personnel. Find out if they are performing well on their job or if they are being passionate about their specific work. Inappropriate assignment makes employees frustrated, and it will not certainly make them love you.


Make them love the workplace

The workplace is where your employees spend most of their time. Some employees are even spending more time in the office than in their homes. If you want to make your employees love you, then make your workplace a lovely place to live and work. Give them nice office chairs, efficient computers, convenient room, fresh air, clean comfort rooms, relaxing environment, and anything that will help them stay and work comfortably. Some companies even strive to make their office and furniture stylish. Who would love an employer who doesn’t pay attention and is letting his workers work in an uncomfortable and inconvenient workplace?


Make them love their coworkers

One of the major reasons why employees resign is conflict with their co-workers. One of the major reasons why they also stick to their company is the deep relationship they’ve built with their co-workers. If you wish your employees to be happy and make them love your company, then you should do something to harmonize the people inside your organization. Be a better leader and make them united in goals and in spirit. Don’t put walls among them. Invest in team building and other activities that can strengthen their relationship with each other. Be careful to not show favoritism. It will only divide and ruin your organization.


Make them love your clients

Clients or customers are the people whom your staff always face or talk to. Some of your employees build good and lasting relationship with them. But others may be in the opposite situation. Your employees’ bad relationship with clients may create frustrations on their part and may become the reason why they will hate their job. Thus, you need to avoid this as much as possible especially when you’re in a service firm where products are delivered in a longer term. To reduce this kind of risk, you should strengthen your quality control with regard to accepting clients. Be honest to reject clients who will not pass on your standards and those who will only give trouble to your company and to your people. Don’t accept clients just because they will give you more profit, but consider your reputation and its effect to your employees’ lives.


Make them love themselves

One of the best ways to make people love you is to give purpose and meaning to their lives. Hence, you should prioritize the professional and personal development of your employees. This will help them love more themselves, as well as you as their boss. So invest time and money to personally coach your employees or send them to professional trainings and seminars. You can also help them how to be a better family persons by giving them extra vacation to spend more time with their family and loved ones. If you do that, they will really be grateful to you.


Make them love the business

As the owner and the head of the company, you are responsible for making your business successful in terms of financial and social profit. If you’re neglecting your business and letting it perform poorly, then how will your employees love you? Remember that in your business lies the future of your employees. Thus, you should do your best to bring honor and glory to it.


Make them love you

Doing the steps above is already doing the things that can make your employees love you. But to ensure that their love will remain, you should be consistent on what you do. To be consistent, what you need is practice. Don’t just wish, choose and do something to earn the love and trust of your employees, but make it a habit to make them love you as their boss.


Conclusion

Making your employees love you has no shortcut. It’s a step by step process that requires your patience, diligence, dedication, and persistent as a manager and a leader. As we discussed earlier, you cannot just ask them to love you. If you want to make your employees love you, then you should first make them love their job, workplace, colleagues, clients, themselves, and your business. In other words, love your employees first. Then, be consistent and make it a habit.