Management Skills

CHAPTER22

Employees Are People, Too

In This Chapter

• Your responsibility to your employees
• Helping your employees be well
• Dealing with friends and family
• Being a good steward of employee wellness

Your employees are people, and you need to build relationships with your staff. But there’s a delicate balance between business and personal relationships. The difference isn’t something that’s easy to define in an employee manual or college textbook, but you do want to do it right.

In this chapter, I give you some practical advice on dealing with employees on a personal level. I’m not a human resources representative, nor am I a trained psychologist, ...