By: Will Durness

Will Durness — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:33:40 +0000

Many times though a good employee will leave because a manager new has been “Arabesqued” in to fill the super confident current manager’s rise to his next level of incompetence.

By: Michael O'Daniel

Michael O'Daniel — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:15:08 +0000

People don’t leave companies as much as they leave bosses. (Boss could mean the CEO, or it could be the next person up in the employee’s reporting line.) So it’s important to listen proactively to your employees, and especially your key employees, to keep tabs on their job satisfaction, and proactively to seek out alternatives other than compensation, as outlined by Mr Berkus, to keep them on your team. Believe it or not, employees value recognition, appreciation, and having their input solicited and acted upon as much as money if not more so. Speaking from experience, I would also caution C-levels from putting disproportionate weight on the input of certain employees and devaluing the input of others. People are generally more understanding of financial constraints and fixed compensation structures if the recognition / valuation factor is present. This is not to say that there won’t come a time when a key employee will get an offer from another company that is just too good to pass up, but if you’ve kept a dialogue going with that person, you’re less likely to be blindsided when that time comes, and perhaps less likely for that person to be looking elsewhere in the first place.

By: Larry Jordan

Larry Jordan — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:09:57 +0000

Again, really great insight to the truth on keeping great employees.

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