Remember when it was an employer market? You felt in control, you had the ability to be choosy, and you could concentrate and focus on the other important aspects of your job. Things change quicker than we see them coming or perhaps quicker than we are willing to change. We all settle into our little domains. We settle into our homes, our friendships, our workstyles, fashion, and a host of other life and work style patterns and habits. But today's comfort and routines create tomorrow's problems and redirections. You would think we would be a little more like nomads in life. Be quick to pack up those thinking and living patterns that make it so much more difficult to change when the need or occasions arise and move onto a better and higher ground. Today, and for the past fifteen years it has been an employee marketplace. We can point our fingers to "the Pandemic", "the Lazy", "People don't want to work", "Millennials", and other "I am not the problem" amenities. The fact of the matter is life is always changing and most of us are trying to stay the same while other things change. This never works. Change always catches up to us. You can fight it as long as you want by believing that you are doing all the right and important things. One of the big problems is our focus on the results that distract us from the process.
If you want to learn how to attract and retain employees, you will have to constantly ask questions and become a learner. You cannot settle on what you think today or believe tomorrow. Life is like a swift moving river, and we must learn how to navigate waters we cannot control like, people and circumstances.
This blog will contain insights to learn and provide questions to be a learner. Retaining employees is like retaining a marriage or a life-long relationship. You don't grow and solidify long-term relationships by staying the same. Relationships are difficult and require encouragement, forgiveness, love, space, admonishment, grace, instruction, truth in love, accepting imperfections and flaws, and to make room for growth and disagreement.
The Three most important aspects of employee retention are:
Best Friend at Work
Empathy
Coaching
Leading and driving change will be important as we go forward to retain employees in the midst of a true shortage of people between the ages of 18-64 (working age).
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