Understand your employees’ work–life balance.

Why is it important to know how your employees manage their work–life balance? The answer is simple: The employees who manage their lives well are generally the people who are most engaged, productive, and successful. It is also important to know how your employees would like their workplaces to support their work–life balance.

Be sensitive to your employees’ work–life balance.

As a leader, you must help your employees achieve balance between their work and their other responsibilities. When you do, they’re more likely to achieve balance, too. They’re also more likely to work hard.

The best managers are true partners. They treat employees as if they were members of their own families. They know their employees’ families. They know where their children go to school, how they are doing in their classes, who their friends are, what their parents do, what their extended families do, what their spouses do. The very best managers are able to be strong and involved at the same time.

When you treat employees as partners, they will work harder for you. They will also work harder for themselves. When they are partners, they feel less like cogs in a machine and more like the people who own the machine.

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