Strategies To Retain Staff And Help Them Succeed In The Workplace
Why Is Success In The Workplace A Key To Staff Retention?
Staff retention is always a problem. People join and leave organisations for all sorts of reasons. It is expensive when staff chose to leave soon after they have arrived and a large turnover of staff is debilitating to the organisation.
The obvious key to retaining staff must be motivating employees. As a leader and manager motivating your employees is a fundamental part of the job. Motivating employees increases productivity but it also helps retain staff.
The term motivation could be used for every thing you do that stops some one leaving the job. The term, therefore, requires unpacking. Motivating people is showing care and consideration to them. It is providing the hygiene factors discussed by McGregor. It is creating an environment for the middle levels of Herzberg’s Heirachy of Needs to be met in.
Thus motivation is treating people with respect and valuing their contribution by displays of recognition. At the early stages of employment a comprehensive induction is motivating. It shows the organisation is interested enough in the employee to make them welcome and give them a firm feel to what the organisation exists to achieve and what part they play.
Motivating teams and individuals does create leadership challenges. Some are not difficult to over come, whereas others may be trickier. Job satisfaction is a large part of taking basic motivation further. The ability for a manager to give their power away in order to allow a member of staff or team to succeed is the goal but it is not always easy in practice.
Team building is another method that mixes retaining staff and promoting success. Motivating employees to work together makes people more creative. Again the secret is a light touch by management. It does not mean, though, that leadership is not required.
In many respects motivating employees and effective leadership must go hand in hand. If management is the day-to-day servicing of staff to fulfil their job role, leadership is providing the vision and strategic focus that the department or organisation need to move forward and invent and reinvent new products and services. Motivating employees as a leader constitutes giving them a voice and responsibility for their work and its contribution to the greater good. If a manager must give power away to feed success the leader guides the staff wielding that power in directions that mean success
This course is designed to review your organisations staff retention issues. It will help you identify areas for the improvement of processes and procedures for retaining staff. It will investigate how a manager gives power away and how a leader steers effectively and to mutual gain