Coaching | Managing Employees

Do Counter Offers Work to Retain Employees?

A manager doesn’t want to lose a strong performer as they need them to meet business goals. So what happens when an employee gives notice, especially if the person is critical to the operations or project? Does it make sense to create a counter offer in order to entice them to stay?

Employees leave for many reasons and in some cases money is the primary reason. Though in my experience, money is not usually the precipitating factor when an employee decides to leave. Most likely the job didn’t just materialized and they accepted it. Rather the employee may have updated their resume and started looking long before the offer came to them. If this is the case, how do you think a counter offer will work? What are some of the scenarios if you decide to counter offer in order to keep a key person.

Is It Time To Let Your Employee Go?

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As a manager, you are constantly evaluating the performance of each of your employees. That is your main role – to support each of your team members to perform at their best. What happens when you have an employee whose performance is not meeting expectations?

It’s important that you address performance issues as soon as you notice them.
Mainly because it helps the employee perform better, and poor performance
also impacts the performance of the other team members.

There are three main areas a manager operates within when working with individual team members: coach, counsel or terminate. What constitutes each area of management?

What Makes a Respectful Workplace

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You may have heard of the expression “respectful workplace.” A workplace that values its employee has an advantage in growing their business. What does a respectful workplace look like?

Ask yourself: How are you treated as a manager? Do you feel that you are important to your manager, recognized for your work and respected for your feelings and thoughts?

Ask your employees: What does respect mean to them?

Key ingredients of a Respectful Workplace

Speak – it’s important to insure communication with employees is clear and open to dialogue. Encourage people to share their feelings and thoughts about issues and projects. Consider what you say and its impact on others.

Have You Maximize Your Employee’s Strengths

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Maximizing an employee’s strengths is a more effective use of your time than improving their weaknesses. No one person is perfect — how do you gain the most from your employees so they want to perform at their best?

Focus on their strengths

As manager, your role is to provide clear expectations and coach your team so they are successful in their roles. Employees want to contribute and are more focused and engaged when they continue to build on their strengths.

Susan Sorenson, Gallup.com, wrote “How Employees’ Strengths Make Your Company Stronger.”

How To Deal With a Talkative Employee

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Studies show that employees that communicate and connect with each other during the business day increase productivity and helps with retention. Employees need roots in the company in order to feel a part of the organization and their relationships within the workplace help with their overall happiness at work. Some ways these employees connect:

brainstorming
over lunch
on Monday sharing the weekend with each other
water cooler is the typical image of employees gathering

They share their personal lives, work issues as well as gossip. Gossip is the one area you will want to help educate each employee of its potential destructive quality.

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