When it comes to building relationships with our employees there is a need for extra carefulness, I am not someone who likes bosses that are usually too strict but I also like the application of moderacy in everything. The relationship between an employee and an employer needs to be taken with seriousness and great care also.
You will agree with me that it is easy to do business with a cooperative team, those who believe in the business and are ready to support the business, which is not really easy to come by because the attitude presented during an interview turns out to be a different experience after employment is made but it is also the duty of the business owner or manager to make sure that every type of attitude reflected in the business region is towards the support of the business and not towards the detriment of the business.
As a business owner or manager that wants a vibrant team as employees, it is important to be vibrant yourself. Personally, I have the attitude of doing things by myself, it is easier for me to do something by myself than delegating the task to somebody else, and what I realized is that my staff just join in whenever they see me carrying out the task by myself but there should be a limit to this because a good leader should be able to designate task, my point is that you cannot be a lazy leader and get angry that your employees are also lazy, it is the attitude they see you portray that they will also bring to the table.
As a business owner or manager, make it convenient for your employees to confront you, making it difficult or scary for employees to walk up to you will not help the business, those who usually have discrete information with the business or even a closer relationship with customers are employees and when employees are free to share the information with their boss without the fear of being scolded, it will be easier to know the next thing to improve upon.
It is also really important to set a limit to the closeness with employees, when the closeness becomes too much it might begin to result to disrespect and negligence of duty which is of course not healthy for the business, the point is to make employees feel comfortable with you but never too close to the point of causing disrespect.