#๐Ÿ ๐ƒ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ? ๐’๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฒ ๐’๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ โ€ฆ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐„๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ž โ€“

๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐‘๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ

In yesterdayโ€™s post, โ€œ ๐‘ƒ๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐ธ๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ : ๐‘‡๐˜ฉ๐‘’ ๐น๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Š๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘€๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’
๐ฟ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ,โ€ I shared four themes that consistently appear in
engagement surveys.

Today, weโ€™re starting with the top answer on the board: the employee โ€“
manager relationship.

๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ โ€”๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ž
๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž โ€”๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง .

As I said last week in โ€œ ๐น๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘€๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ƒ๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ , ๐‘‡๐˜ฉ๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐ผ๐‘  ๐‘ก๐˜ฉ๐‘’
๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ โ€: Memorable experiences โ€”positive or negative โ€”almost
always trace back to a person.
That person is usually a manager.

According to ๐†๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฉ , ๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ% ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฏ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž
๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ซ .

๐๐จ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ž โ€“๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ž
๐ž๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ .

That level of impact isnโ€™t about big decisions.
Itโ€™s built through consistent, everyday actions.

๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐Œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ

These arenโ€™t extras โ€”theyโ€™re the baseline.
At a minimum, hereโ€™s what managers can do to strengthen
relationships.
No budget needed โ€”just time, attention, and consistency.

๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
Check in โ€”ask how theyโ€™re doing and what they need to move
forward.

๐Œ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š ๐ก๐š๐›๐ข๐ญ
Stay present and responsive. Availability builds trust.

๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž
Set priorities, remove blockers, and drive shared results.

๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ
Proactive communication prevents confusion and frustration.

๐’๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง , ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ž
Understand what motivates them. Respect how they work and who
they are.

๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ก
Donโ€™t wait for reviews. Real -time coaching creates real -time
momentum.

๐Œ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž
Define success. Clarify priorities. Make sure expectations are clear.

๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž
๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ .

And ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ž โ€“๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ .

๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ โ€™๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐š ๐›๐ข๐ 
๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ?

๐‘†๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐˜ฉ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘› ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐˜ฉ๐‘–๐‘  ๐ต๐‘’๐˜ฉ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐˜ฉ๐‘’ ๐ท๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก :
๐ธ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’ : โ€œ๐‘„๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ 9 ๐‘ก๐‘œ 5 ๐ฝ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘ก๐˜ฉ ๐‘‡๐˜ฉ๐‘–๐‘  90 ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘†๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐ป๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘› !โ€
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