Improve your employees standards by improving you own standards

I have met many managers who demand the best out of their employees but they themselves fail to live up to those standards or be a role model. What hinders the development efforts in many organizations, especially in the developing world, is the huge gap between management and employees; management demands certain quality of work but without providing a clear guidelines or standards to employees.

In several companies where I worked or where I visited I saw almost no training giving to employees not even new employees were giving an introduction to the company’s operation.

In many countries around the world, the culture of isolation between management and the rest of the employees is still very much alive, managers mostly view themselves as superior who seldom make mistakes and have no need to improve their standards.

A successful manager must always set himself as a role model to the rest of his employees, he must lead by example, he must know that his employees will only have faith on him if they see his standards are continuously improving.