{"id":3633,"date":"2014-10-08T21:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T04:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2014-10-12T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T21:33:29","slug":"treating-employees-like-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/treating-employees-like-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Treating Your Employees Like Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Parent<\/a>There has been a lot of advice on how to effectively work with Millennials.\u00a0 It tends to center around giving the Millennials what they crave\u2014praise, feedback, awards, structured mentoring and training, opportunities for development, and exciting, life-fulfilling work.\u00a0 Experts on Millennials tend to get this information by surveying Millennials about what they want.\u00a0 However, in my experience as a consultant, while people often tell you what they want, they rarely tell you what they need.<\/p>\n

Millennials may want a high level of guidance, but what they often need is to develop independence.\u00a0 I say this because the leaders I work with frequently express frustration around having to spend too much time \u201chand holding\u201d what they call \u201chigh maintenance\u201d employees.\u00a0 Because Millennial workers tend to demand more guidance and feedback than previous generations of employees, today\u2019s managers are struggling to get their work done.\u00a0 By giving Millennials what they want, managers may be creating a vicious cycle where no one gets what they need, including the company.<\/p>\n

Here are three simple questions you can ask yourself to determine if you are \u201chand holding,\u201d and three tips on how to stop.<\/p>\n

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  1. Are you giving your employees more instructions than you think you should have to?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u201cHow do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?\u201d Asked the employee to his boss at the caf\u00e9.\u00a0 We both looked at him as if he were speaking French.\u00a0 But, no, he was American and he was most definitely speaking English.<\/p>\n

    Managers often tell me that their younger employees aren\u2019t able to move forward with their tasks without precise instructions at every step of the way. In fact, they seem to have difficulty working independently and taking a project and running with it. Managers also comment on the lack of creativity of the new generation of workers. They seem to expect to be told exactly what to do and how to do it\u2014sometimes to the point of managers wondering if it would be simpler just to do the work themselves.<\/p>\n

    Solution: Teach your employees how to be more independent.<\/p>\n

    Give your employees a task and keep them busy for a day;<\/em><\/p>\n

    Teach your employees to work and you empower them for a lifetime.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Instead of telling the caf\u00e9 employee how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, his boss told him to figure it out.\u00a0 (He actually said, \u201cYou\u2019re kidding, right?\u201d But that wasn\u2019t the constructive attitude I wanted to promote in this article.)\u00a0 In the end, I was quite pleased with the sandwich and the employee learned a new skill.\u00a0 Chances are, your employees are working on more complex tasks.\u00a0 In either case, you can help them learn by asking them how they think they should go about it and what the consequences would be of taking that approach.\u00a0 You can guide them through the thought process to give them the tools to be able to do it on their own the next time instead of running back to you for instructions.<\/p>\n

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    1. Do you feel compelled to give your employees more praise than is warranted?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      One doctor relayed his experiences of giving feedback to residents. He said the young residents were so accustomed to being told how wonderful they were that when he gave them negative evaluations, they left his office in tears. Millennials aren\u2019t used to making mistakes. In attempts to raise self-esteem, parents and teachers have showered them with honors and trophies and greater-than-perfect GPAs. Managers may be the first to tell them that they have made a mistake.\u00a0 When you sense that your employees are fragile, it is natural to want to make them feel better by giving false praise.\u00a0 But that isn\u2019t helping anyone in the long run.<\/p>\n

      Solution: Talk to your employees about the importance of honest feedback.<\/p>\n

      No one likes to hear that they did a bad job.\u00a0 But you can help people welcome the opportunity to develop by having a culture of honest feedback where it is okay to take risks, make mistakes, and learn from them.\u00a0 Millennials really want to develop.\u00a0 That is one of their top priorities.\u00a0 Give them the chance to truly develop their self-awareness, resilience, and skills at the same time.\u00a0 Explain to them that this will help them and it is part of the process of improving.\u00a0 You can also role model it by accepting honest feedback from them.<\/p>\n

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      1. Do you have to reassure your employees more than you think is necessary?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        In addition to praise, managers complain that younger workers often need constant reassurance that they are on track. Managers complain they don\u2019t have time to give the up-to-the-minute feedback these employees seem to expect. Research shows the majority of Millennial workers constantly desire to know how they are doing.\u00a0 They want to know whether they are working fast enough and are doing their tasks correctly and they\u2019d like to have feedback as often as every day.\u00a0 If a manager gave feedback to every team member every day, there would be no time leftover to get other work done.<\/p>\n

        Solution: Encourage peer feedback so you don\u2019t have to do it all.<\/p>\n

        Teach your employees how to give honest, constructive feedback so that they can give it to each other.\u00a0 If you teach them coaching skills too, then they can help each other come up with solutions to problems without involving you unnecessarily.\u00a0 Your team members will develop in the process and feel much more empowered as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        There has been a lot of advice on how to effectively work with Millennials.\u00a0 It tends to center around giving the Millennials what they crave\u2014praise, feedback, awards, structured mentoring and training, opportunities for development, and exciting, life-fulfilling work.\u00a0 Experts on Millennials tend to get this information by surveying Millennials about what they want.\u00a0 However, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2972,"featured_media":3698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8,38],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-job","tag-leadership","tag-management-government-administration"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAre You Treating Your Employees Like Children? 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