At the heart of managing people well

Respect in the workplace is paramount to increasingly growing collective interpersonal and other skills at all levels. In every direction it (respect) is therefore vital and fundamental to increasingly building good management, healthy workplaces and ultimately an increasingly better society. Manifestations of abuse of power, objectionable conduct directed towards another, attempts to intimidate or humiliate, are surely unhealthy behaviors that can create a hostile and offensive environment, workplace and world. Vital to all interactions and the growth of a positive society are therefore respectful communications. Ideally all throughout the world increasingly recognize this and do their best to give positive energy to others to help all develop their social and other skills and feel increasingly secure. Ideally all can try better to not make attempts to diminish the capable people around them. There is no value in doing so or in subjecting someone to unjustified criticism, or in attempting to humiliate another in front of others. Ignoring, overruling, isolating and excluding someone who has value will not help you, the organization or the world in the long run. Ideally each person can increasingly see this, catch themselves and others before it is too late and do something positive to help ensure that every person has the necessary access and visibility into matters pertinent to them so every person can have greater potential to be their best so they in turn can do their best to try to help others to be their best. There is no value in setting someone up for failure by giving them unrealistic goals and deadlines, by denying necessary information and resources, or by overloading them or by taking away all or some of their work and perhaps replacing it with something demeaning. Equally in the final analysis it is not good practice to increase someone’s responsibility while removing or limiting the appropriate and necessary authority. Given that it is a misdirected need that controls others, and that ultimately drives attempts to intimidate, ideally the world continually works towards finding better balance (for example between governance and empowerment). Ideally all increasingly see that there is a compelling case for unending work in positive directions which aim to help create environments with innate characteristics for greater peace, joy, fun and productivity that among other allow for better decision making, reduced risks, and greater benefits for all.  Replacing fear with understanding, compassion and caring may not always be easy, but ideally we all get better at trying to do so, as at the heart of managing people well and ensuring greater dimensions of intrinsic and pervasive value are such qualities which inherently tie into increasingly trying to show each other better and better, Respect.