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You can't force an employee to remain in their job longer than they want to stay employed with you, but there are things that you can do now to increase the likelihood that you'll retain your staff long enough to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with them
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Easy Small Business HR 1
Revolving Door Syndrome-Tips on
Retaining Your Employees
Special Report From: EasySmallBusinessHR.com
There are those jobs that are meant to be short lived; weigh stations
of sorts. Employees go back to school, outgrow their roles, or just
burn out.
It’s natural that you’d want to do everything possible to retain
employees. Given the amount of time spent finding, hiring and
training a new employee, it’s in your best interest to keep
employees engaged and interested in your job for as long as is
reasonably possible so that you can retain your top employees.
You can’t force an employee to remain in their job longer than
they want to stay employed with you, but there are things that you
can do now to increase the likelihood that you’ll retain your staff
long enough to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with
them:
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Be proactive and assess your applicant’s commitment to the
role before hiring.
There are no guarantees, but you can lessen the possibility of
employee flight upfront by asking your job applicant about their
career goals and long term commitment. Don’t stop there. Check
references in order to verify how long the applicant stayed
employed at past jobs. Past behavior can give you insight on
future behavior.
Enable your employees and give them a sense of ownership in
their jobs.
Even workers who are performing the most mundane tasks want
and need to feel a sense of pride and commitment in the work that
they perform. Give them the ability to make decisions that don’t
need to be passed through your filter.
Give your employees and opportunity to cross train or take on
new tasks.
Access to even very simple or straightforward opportunities can
help to make your staff feel that they have an opportunity to learn a
new skill.
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Acknowledge your employees efforts.
Employees want to know that you recognize and appreciate their
work. Let them know that you are available to answer questions
and concerns. Then follow through on your commitment to be
available to staff.
Address work place problems immediately.
Don’t let unaddressed issues in the workplace affect the morale of
other staff members. Make sure that employees understand their
roles and what you expect of them.
Orient your new employee to their new job.
Make sure that they have everything that they will need to be
successful during their first few weeks in their new role.
Following these tips will help to take the mystery out of how to
retain your valued employees.
