How Can HR Managers Balance Being Firm Yet Approachable with Colleagues?

Hi all,

Kindly suggest to me. I am an HR Manager in a reputed company, and my boss wants me to interact with my colleagues in a way that is neither too harsh nor too lenient, but rather like a manager's voice. Can you tell me how it is possible for an HR manager to act in both ways?

Hi Aarti,

There is no definite way to handle a team or the rest of the employees. It's only going to be your charm, intelligence, and communication which can get you through this. The only way one can be a great manager is by following the below:

a) The need to establish clear-cut goals,
b) The need to praise good performance,
c) And the need to reprimand people when their performance fails to contribute to the attainment of commonly agreed goals.

These three basic ideas are the three secrets of the one-minute manager, namely: one-minute goals, one-minute praisings, and one-minute reprimands. Please refer to the article attached. This is a review I wrote years back after reading a book.

Regards,
AJ