Most people do not realize just how intense the restaurant business can be. Employees find the work environment stressful and the pace is almost always set on maximum in the more successful establishments. As a manager, you may find that hiring quality employees is hard enough, and keeping them is harder still. If you are a restaurant manager and are tired of dealing with staffing as if it had a revolving door attached to it, try a little positive reinforcement and watch as your staff solidifies.

One Or Two Bad Eggs

Positive attitudes in the fast-paced restaurant business are often hard to maintain with one or two individuals carrying the load while everyone else grumbles, moans, and groans. Some people just never seem satisfied until they drag everyone else down to their level of misery. You know the type. They are the ones who groan at the mere mention of food inventory or any other phase of the restaurant working environment. Some of these gripers are not salvageable and no amount of positive reinforcement can save them from their inevitable doom, however, most of them can be saved. Here is how.

– Meet with each employee individually and reinforce the positive attitude within them with positive affirmations about their performance and worth.

– If the employee needs to be counseled for poor performance or attendance, start and end the conversation on a positive note.

– Use positive affirmation devices like posters, personal notes, and challenges.

– Always maintain a positive attitude. As a manager, your mood will often influence the entire team so stay upbeat. If you can do this in the face of adversity, so will they.

Calling In The Calvary

Recruit help from those employees who have a positive attitude. By bringing them into your confidence and letting them in on your plan to create a winning team, you will motivate them to help you by working with other staff towards that common goal. The making of a positive environment is a team effort. It has to be by the very nature of the goal.

Reward Reaping

Positive rewards for work well done will help promote a positive level of competition that will help to make the work load even out. Cross training employees so that they can help in areas where it is needed the most and then sending positive praise towards those who do will generate good will throughout the staff and make everyone happier.

Roll Up Your Sleeves

No one can be positive and upbeat all of the time. When the stress level gets high, some employees will become the devils advocate. This is why it is important to have others on staff that knows when to work to counter act those negative feelings with positive reinforcement, praise, and affirmations. However, nothing makes more of a positive impact on a stressed out staff than when the manager rolls up his or her sleeves and jumps into the fray with a positive, we will win the day attitude. If you are willing to work with the crew to change a stressful period and make it a we can do situation, the employees will respond in kind. This kind of management never fails.

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