In a continuing effort to improve our workplaces, particularly where management is concerned, we return to first principles in this episode to re-discover the value of longtime, hardworking employees who, although they don't appear on the balance sheet, really are your greatest assets. We review your responsibilities to nurture and grow them and how you trade resources and support for their knowledge and expertise, especially when, as so often happens, you as the manager don't know enough to do their job and don't understand their challenges. We discuss how you balance the company's interests with the need to train your employees to advocate for themselves. We discuss the requirement for excellent communication skills and how to intervene when conflicts arise, and finally, the respect and honesty that should be extended to every employee. Management is hard, but the basics are not. An episode to get started on the right foot.

An episode on hiring that we reference:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguide/episodes/2019-03-18T17_37_32-07_00

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