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7 Ways You Can Make Your Company a Great Place to Work
Losing a great employee is costly. Your company loses time, money, and the information stored in that person’s brain about how things work well and what to do next.
It’s clear that employee retention is a priority for you as a leader and for those working with people in your company, which is probably everyone within your company.
The time to start addressing retention of great employees is now. Here are 7 ways you can keep your best staff members and create a desirable place to work:
1. Start at onboarding. Help newly hired people know what is expected of them, including your standards of quality and customer service. Clarity of expectations makes it easier to succeed.
2. Keep your Impact Purpose visible. Talk about your Impact Purpose and keep talking about it at every meeting. People want to be part of something bigger than themselves.
3. Be willing to have your mind changed. It’s one thing to collect employee suggestions; it’s quite another to decide to act on them. When people feel heard and that they affecting things, they’ll be more fulfilled.
4. Be empathetic and make sure your managers understand the importance of that too. In a LinkedIn survey, 25% of employees left their company due to personal issues, like…
