-Cavett Robert
Do you know why MOST people leave their job? What do you think is the most COMMON complaint that employees have about their work environment? If you are a business owner and are seeking to recruit/retain TOP TALENT – what is the ONE area that you should be promoting most heavily about your company?
MOST people are not upset enough to leave their job over money. RARELY does it have to do with their ability to move up the food chain. SOMETIMES, but not often, are they so dissatisfied with training and support that they quit. MOST FREQUENTLY it is the company's INABILITY to RECOGNIZE and ACKNOWLEDGE a job well done. It is the manager's unwillingness to come by and say, "I think you are doing a great job. What can I do to help you be better?" that commonly drives dissatisfaction internally – which spreads quickly. SUCCESS is driven by the employee's PERSONAL feelings of self worth and value to the organization. It's their FEELING that if they do more, someone will notice and respond that REALLY matter.
As an employee, have you ENJOYED working for an excellent company? What made it so special? As an employer, have you had an EXCELLENT employee? What did you DO to help develop that SUPERIOR employee? I have a thought and it comes from a good friend, Tim Bewley, who once shared with me his rationale about employee RETENTION. It is made up of 3 value elements: 1. You are LEARNING more than you can anywhere else. 2. You are COMPENSATED more than you can get anywhere else. 3. You enjoy the PEOPLE/ENVIRONMENT you work in more than anywhere else. His rationale is that a HAPPY employee has 2 out of the 3 and DISGRUNTLED employee has 1 of 3 and will leave shortly. If you have 0 out of 3, get the HECK OUT! If you have 3 out of 3… you have a life-long employee.
2 DEGREE SUCCESS STEP:
I'd love to give you a "catch all solution" yet there is no great SCIENCE to what actions to take in order to make the most of your relationships. Go back a few days to the prior Morning Motivators about "relationships" and consider that you must treat colleagues, teammates, employees, employers just as you would a husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc… if you treat those people with CARE, RESPECT and KINDNESS, you will find that it is returned along with LOYALTY and TRUST.
By making a concerted effort to FEED your team with support, recognition and encouragement, whether as a leader or team member, you can expect that PRODUCTIVITY will increase drastically along with satisfaction. Once you begin to achieve in these ways internally, you will also begin to see it cross over into the way your clients view you. We all have walked into a business or worked with a provider that has EXTREMELY happy employees… just think about how good you FELT working with them as a result. Now think… how IMPORTANT is feeding your team properly to you?
Feed your personal relationships this weekend. Find someone you love and tell them – it will be the best 2 minutes you spend! Have a GREAT weekend…
Cheers,
Zach
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