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Help Your Employees Deal With Their Baggage

Published on Thu May 17, 2012

When one of your employees experiences a personal tragedy, it can affect the entire office.If you expect your employees to leave their personal issues at home, you could be making a grave mistake. As a supervisor, you need to work with them to pull through their issues and become better employees for your company.Daniel Harkavy, author of "Becoming A Coaching Leader," offers this six-step plan to help get your employees on the right track:1. "Acknowledge that there is a problem," says Harkavy. Perhaps one of your employees has been performing under par lately, even though she is normally a great worker. Or maybe she seems depressed or overly sensitive. These are all indications that something is wrong. As her supervisor, you cannot expect her to deal with these issues on her own and perform normally at work. You must sit down with her and tell her that you've noticed a [...]
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