Yesterday (7/5/2023) was the first ISOWA Fellowship social gathering of this year.
The theme of this
year's meeting was "sharing policies with employees," a topic that
should be a concern for all managers.
The theme was
discussed exclusively among management members.
What surprised me
was the high level of self-disclosure by everyone.
Instead of just
saying, "This is how we share (or have shared) our policies," they
candidly said, "We are having trouble sharing our policies with our
employees.”
I felt a great
deal of empathy with their frank opinions.
No matter how
wonderful a policy is, unless it is shared with employees and they put it into
practice, it is nothing more than just an armchair theory.
Sharing policies
is an eternal challenge for managers.
The tricky part is
not knowing if the employees understand the company policies.
I can only guess,
so therefore the only way to know the truth is to actually ask them.
However, even if
employees say they really feel empathy with the policies, they only think so,
and even they don’t know if they really understand it.
Because the source
of the policies is within me, no matter how many times I explain it, I have
never been confident that I have successfully completely shared the essence of
our company policies to all my employees.
In addition, do
the employees see that “our president really wants to implement the policy?”
In response to
this question, I was most impressed by the words of Mr. H, a member of our
staff at the social gathering.
He said, "I
decided to join ISOWA because I wanted to work with people like them.
What I do is important,
but who I work with makes a big difference in my motivation.”
Perhaps the
feeling of "I want to work with this person (the president)" is the
best way to share the policies.
