Whether your business is growing, or you’re already managing a large team of people, handling a huge amount of staff can be challenging. With many diverse individuals and flourishing ideas, a big workforce can be extremely beneficial to your company if managed correctly.

Attention to Detail

A top tip of handling a larger workforce is to pay attention – it can be easy to get lost in your own crowd. It can be easy to neglect your staff or ignore their demands and wellbeing, so are you telling your staff everything they need to know? Be careful to not distance yourself too far from your employees. It can be overwhelming having to deal with such a large group of diverse people, but make sure you’re there to listen to an individual’s opinion and support them as a manager and leader.

Structure

Provide a structure for every couple of months that shows employees how well they are and aren’t doing. Appraisals and evaluations every few months will help individuals feel appreciated and valued - they won’t feel like just a name on a payroll.

Make sure everyone is assigned to a project or has tasks to complete daily. Stay on top of what people are doing and don’t lose track of who is doing what. With large workforces it is best to group tasks with numerous people, so projects are completed more quickly. Appropriate tasks to the right people, specifically employees who are the best at completing the designated tasks.

Meet the Family

Always let your staff know any company updates, shifts in managements and what is happening in general in the business to keep everyone connected. Provide your team with the right equipment, so everyone is equipped with the right tools to carry out their job to the best of their ability. Make training opportunities available to everyone. It’ll keep staff motivated to do better in your company and have something to work towards. Seminars are a great opportunity to get people together to collaborate and update staff. They also help to reiterate the rules of the company and ensure everyone knows and respects them.

The workplace must reflect the amount of people that work there. It’s ideal to create an office or working environment built for a large amount of people with different working styles and personalities. Mix up social and private areas and keep in mind that there is always a risk of conflict. Have an open mind and be ready to listen to all sides of a story. It’s best to resolve issues quickly and fully – be firm, but fair.

Put an emphasis on teamwork and building the company together. Hold team building activities and social out-of-office outings that’ll connect your staff on a more personal level.

If handled correctly, having a large, diverse workforce can benefit your company immensely by bringing out the best of each employee, in terms of ability, creativity and knowledge and skills. Each member of staff contributes something different to the team and, together, individuals create well-rounded personnel that offer new ideas, different perspectives and potential improvements to the way a company is run.