Retaining Employees | Managing Employees

How To Keep Your Top Performers

Can you afford to lose your top performers? The market today is different and strong talent, especially technology employees, can easily find another company to entice them away. What do you need to keep your employees fully engaged and not tempted to leave?

You need to be consistently recruiting your current employees!

Listen
Employees want to be heard and a manager who is skilled in listening to each person will increase their ability to keep their best employees. Here are some thoughts on how to connect with each person.

Do you discuss with each employee what is working and not working for them?

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.

Do You Know How To Keep Your Employees Happy?

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Managers know that a happy employee is more productive and less likely to leave. So what makes an employee happy?

Work that is challenging
Transparent communication around what is happening in the company
Treat them with respect in your interactions
Be a strong manager, who is willing to lead, tell the truth and find solutions to their work issues
Listen to them
Build in fun into the workplace helps them disengage from just working
Recognition, recognition, recognition

These are some of the actions that build a workplace that enhances employee’s engagement and happiness with their work.

How To Build Trust With Your Team

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Managing employees can be a challenging role yet with some basic guidelines you can build trust with your team. When an employee trusts their manager, they are more engaged in their work and consequently more productive. Here are some ideas to help you build a strong working relationship with each member of your team:

Honestly always works best — even if you don’t know the answer, let them know and indicate you will get back to them. If you want a productive team, employees collaborate better when they have the information they need to create strong solutions. If you can’t give the information, indicate why and let them know when you can.

Exit Interviews Are Important

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No manager wants a productive employee to leave. The time it takes to find a replacement, as well as train them, impacts a manager’s ability to do business. Yet, employees do leave and an exit interview is a perfect way to find out what caused them to make that decision. Do you know why employees leave your company?

On About.com, read “Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Quit Their Job” by Susan M. Heathfield to breakdown areas that enhance employee engagement and retain talent.

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