How you affect people depends on how you treat them!
You must have witnessed various disputes between people many times, on social networks people mark themselves with different labels depending on their political orientation, popular sport, which brand of car they drive and many other things. Disagreements happen also at the workplace, and there are quite a few of them. There are two questions here: Can you disagree and still be kind? Wouldn't that make you – as a manager – more effective?
For quite some time, researchers have been studying the impact of kindness on your own happiness, which is said to influence your ability to lead. Researchers at the University of Oxford recently analyzed hundreds of published articles examining the relationship between kindness and happiness. They discovered 21 studies, which explicitly prove that you kindness to others makes you happier, research from the University of Warwick even revealed that happy people are at work 12 percent more productive like unhappy people.
Happy people are 12 percent more productive at work than unhappy people.Can kindness at work take your leadership to the next level?
They are described here three ways From Todd Nordstrom, director of the OC Tanner Institute and author of Appreciate: Celebrating People, Inspiring Greatness, how kindness can help you—as a leader—achieve great results.
1. Respect inspires and creates better results
Being nice means yes you sincerely celebrate the successes of your colleagues, not with a fig in your pocket. You actually care. Research of his company, in which they sought an answer to the question of what would motivate employees in a manager, so that they would strive for even better, excellent results, reveals that employees are most motivated KINDNESSI! The other motivators were salary increase, promotion, training, independence.
2. Connectivity leads to better ideas
It would make sense that kind people connect with each other more easily and sincerely, because they care about the people around them. But that's not all. Among other things, a survey by the OC Tanner Institute found that in 72 percent of awarded projects, people who were not part of the team were also involved and asked for their opinion. Good leaders indeed even those who otherwise know nothing about the project are asked for their opinion. They value these opinions, whether they are positive or negative. And that is KINDNESS – getting and respecting someone else's opinion, whether they agree with the idea or not.
Good managers ask for their opinion even from those who otherwise know nothing about the project.3. Trustworthy relationships
It is also your job and responsibility to inform employees when they are not meeting your expectations. Unfortunately, such conversations are not accepted as acts of kindness. Nevertheless, those managers who express kindness and a sincere desire to help the employee become better at work (and consequently also personally), build stronger relationships with their employees. Ten years old study Harvard Business Review reveals that there is one thing that separates bad leaders from great ones, and that's theirs inability to create trusting relationships with employees.
We all have our own opinions, ideas. Within 45 seconds Google search for your keyword leadership (management) returns 2.1 billion results. Obviously, yes you have a wealth of information available to you to use and learn to become a better leader. Good leadership starts quite simply – with KINDNESS – in life and at work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quickly said it best: "It's never too early to show kindness to someone, because you never know when it will be too late."
