Taylor Swift said, “You know there’s many different ways to kill the ones we love, the slowest way is never loving them enough”, and it applies more to your business than you think.

And when we talk “love”, we really mean care for (because let’s keep it professional).

Your behaviour matters just as much as theirs, and as a leader, you need to evaluate how you show up for your team and what their experience is.

People are looking for purpose, and the most common way is through their work, so let’s look at the three critical ways that discourage team engagement and investment (so you can keep your team happy, aligned and driven):

Emails and messages are great for communicating with team members, but not everything can be explained over text; sometimes you need to call.

Having weekly calls means that there is a specific dedicated time to follow up with tasks, troubleshoot live, or explain more abstract concepts that could be harder to understand just with reading a message.

Your reputation is more than just how your clients and prospective clients see you, it’s also how potential employees and team members see you.

Your reputation as a business encompasses your reputation as an employer, arguably one of the most crucial parts of owning and running a business. 

Do you know what your reputation as an employer is? If you read that question and are sitting there with furrowed brows or a good ol’ “confusion face”, you need to find out.