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6 Ways To Get Your Best Employees To Stay · Enhance.training

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  SPEAKER_00: Get your best employees to stay and you have a more successful team and a more stable team culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good people like working alongside other good people.
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  SPEAKER_00: People like working in teams and for bosses who share their values.
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  SPEAKER_00: The best employees stay because of how they feel working alongside their colleagues and within the wider business.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your best employees stay because of the relationships and loyalties as much as being in a good working environment where they feel they are progressing and developing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're going through six important ways to get your best employees to stay for as long as possible, and these are firstly recruit people who fit the culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, find out who they want to be and become.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, make sure they are seen and heard and feel valued.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, empower employees to do their jobs well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fifth, grow employees as individuals as well as professionally.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then sixth, work hard on creating a positive team environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're looking after your employees, they will look after you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When your employees are happy, they will look after your customers.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a lot that you can do to keep your employees happy and get your best employees to stay.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first way to get your best employees to stay is to recruit people who fit the culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: The team culture and how you feel about working alongside colleagues is more important than having colleagues you feel you can learn from and are great at their jobs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, getting both is even better.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you recruit new staff members into the team, they will do a lot better and feel like they belong in the team when they have similar values to the team and enjoy working in a similar team and culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Research has proven that values alignment and a stronger sense of belonging result in much better performance from team members and they stay longer in that team.
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  SPEAKER_00: These translate into real productivity and profitability improvements and benefits to the individual and the team.
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  SPEAKER_00: During the interview, ask them questions to understand what cultures they excel in and what value their values are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Invite your team to meet with the potential new joiners and get their opinions too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Recruit for culture and values as much as technical strengths.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second way to get your best employees to stay is to find out about who they want to be and become.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't know about your team members' interests, ambitions, and strengths, how can you tailor work and opportunities to match what best suits each team member?
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  SPEAKER_00: Better matching of tasks to strengths nearly always gives you better performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Team members will be a lot happier when they're playing to their own strengths.
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  SPEAKER_00: Employees will be a lot happier when they're doing work that is helping them reach their ambitions.
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  SPEAKER_00: The happier each team member and the team overall is, the more likely you'll get your best employees to stay, and in fact all your employees, and it'll be a lot more fun while they're actually working in that team as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: A great way to find out is to ask.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be interested in your team members.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask about their hobbies, their interests, their career ambitions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen really carefully to what they say and remember it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Write up some notes after the meeting if this will help you remember.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then put the knowledge you have gained into practice by matching opportunities and work with interests and strengths.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will have a happier team members and higher team performance as a result.
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  SPEAKER_00: The third way to stop good employees leaving is to make sure they are seen and heard and feel valued.
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  SPEAKER_00: Book in regular one-on-one meetings with your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Make the time to pop around to their desks and ask them about their progress.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get them to show you what they have been working on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask them questions and dig into the detail.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask them to give their opinions and plans to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give them problems to solve, not just tasks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Above all, spend time listening and considering what your team tells you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more time you spend with your team, the better you'll understand what each team member is doing and be able to praise them and appreciate their good work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Always follow up and spend time with team members with the aim of helping them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not micromanage or aim to check up on them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aim to understand their problems so that you can help remove those problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aim to understand what is happening so you can coach and support.
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  SPEAKER_00: Taking this approach will result in you knowing exactly what is happening in your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Combined with feedback and praise, taking action on their suggestions and helping, you'll have a team that feels you know about them, cares about them, and are helpful to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will also feel valued, listened to and appreciated.
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  SPEAKER_00: A great approach to get all your employees to stay and perform at their best.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Jess Coles, and if you're new to this podcast, Enhanced.training shares people management expertise, resources and courses teaching you how to be a great manager and build high-performing teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've included links to additional resources in the podcast description, so please do take a look at these, you will find them useful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also visit us at enhance.training and take a look at our comprehensive courses on getting the very best from your teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fourth way for making it easy for employees to stay is empower them to do their jobs well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about how you're going to make your employees feel safe, supported, and given permission to take responsibility and ownership of the goals that you've set them.
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  SPEAKER_00: If any of these three factors is missing, employees will not want to be empowered and will not want to take the risks and a responsibility for owning their work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Empower employees through the frameworks that you create and your decisions, actions and behaviours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here are six steps or actions to help empower your employees to take the initiative and make decisions to enable them to produce great results.
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  SPEAKER_00: Firstly, communicate and create understanding of the goals that the team is trying to reach.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, define what type and level of decisions will be made by whom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, share information openly so everyone can do a great job.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, delegate problems, not tasks where you sensibly can.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fifth, start small and progress to bigger in terms of what you delegate, the problems, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then sixth, resist taking away their responsibility or decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Regularly and consistently take these actions without punishing mistakes, and your team will feel much more empowered.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more empowered, the more likely you'll get your best employees to stay and perform at their best.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fifth way to get your best employees to stay is grow employees as individuals as well as professionally.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at any survey about why employees stay at their company, and development and opportunity to grow are in the top reasons almost always.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is doubly the case when you employ bright staff who you expect to solve problems independently while doing their job.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the key ways to get good employees to stay is to invest your time and effort into developing their skills and experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I personally think this is a vital role of any manager, and one of the key ways that you can offer a fair exchange for great work from your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Understand each team member's preferences, interests, strengths and ambitions, and try hard to match the work you have available to best suit these.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do this with every team member.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give the better opportunities to the best performing members of the team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another way to develop employees is to personally mentor and teach them the skills that you have developed in your career.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a great way to stop good employees leaving, and upskilling team members helps your own career development.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another very important factor is higher skilled teams usually produce better results.
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  SPEAKER_00: Work hard to develop your team members.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sixth way to get your best employees to stay is to work hard on creating a positive team environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a lot that goes into creating a positive team environment and encouraging individuals to work together as a team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here are seven important factors that you should work on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Firstly, create very clear goals and keep communicating these to provide clear direction, permission and psychological safety.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, align your decisions, actions and behaviours to the goals and standards that you have set for your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, provide a lot of feedback to team members and give a lot of praise for good decisions, actions, behaviours and results.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, work hard to remove problems that are impacting the team.
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  SPEAKER_00: And fifth, protect the team from too many changes of direction, low value requests, politics and organisational conflict.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sixth, work hard to develop all your team members.
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  SPEAKER_00: And seventh, spend a lot of time with your team members and promote teamworking in all the ways that you can.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more positive the team environment, the more likely all employees will want to stay longer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Working in a nice environment with good colleagues that help and support each other is a very big incentive to stay for most people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in summary, keeping hold of your best staff for as long as possible is a great way to keep improving your team's performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Increasing team performance is another good reason or a good incentive for employees to stay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Success attracts people all by itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: The six ways to get your best employees to stay are firstly recruit people who fit the culture of the team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, find out who they want to be and become.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, make sure they are seen and heard and feel valued.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, empower employees to do their jobs well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fifth, grow employees as individuals as well as professionally.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then sixth, work hard on creating a positive team environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do put these into action as well as you can and as consistently as you can.training and I'll get back to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks very much for listening, and I look forward to speaking to you again soon.