Self Evaluation Form - Behaviors of a Caring Manager
Use this checklist to rate yourself on the various behaviors of a caring manager.
To manage well, you need to develop many different skills, among which is the ability to show care and appreciation for your employees. It's important to remember that the people who work for you have hopes, goals, and aspirations as well as fears, anxieties, and doubts. To have good relationships with your direct reports, you need to recognize their humanity and care about them as people, not just as employees.
This course describes what it means to be a caring manager. Specifically, it outlines the behaviors that a caring manager exhibits, such as showing genuine interest and an engagement in the lives of employees. This course also describes ways you can show that you are a caring manager.
Objectives:
1. recognize key behaviors of caring managers
2. identify examples of how to show you care about direct reports
3. apply techniques for showing that you care about a direct report, in a given scenario
Use this checklist to rate yourself on the various behaviors of a caring manager.
An overall approach to showing you care involves acknowledging individual views, encouraging people, and being sincere in your interest. As a manager, there are four primary ways you can demonstrate to your direct reports that you care:
As a manager or organizational leader, what you do and say is closely monitored by the people who report to you. Your direct reports focus a lot of attention on you. They care what happens to you, and hope you care about them in return.
Listening to what your direct reports say about the things that concern them shows them that they are important to you as individuals. You should: