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if you are in New Hampshire, what do you do in the winter? do you work or lay off people? people need year round employment to keep up with year round bills.
the best way to combat the grass is greener in someone elses field is to make you pasture/ company the greenest and best to be in. What does it take to make your company the best company to work for - well a ton of things. I think the key is to put on your thinking cap and try to make the most exhaustive list of reasons to keep on working for that you could possibly form. But also don't forget to form a list of reasons why people quit working for you or for other people.
my thoughts are that good employees are hard to find. If all you want is good employees, you don't deserve to have the absolute best employees. The absolute best employees are good employees found and then made into your definition of the absolute best employee. Basically good employees are found but the absolute best employees are MADE.
I ALSO BELIEVE THAT KEEPING THEM LOYAL TO YOU AND YOUR COMPANY IS BUILT BY ESTABLISHING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM
I also believe that keeping employees loyal to you is a function of the type and quality of relationship you have with them. You don't have to be buddies with them but neither do you have to be a total stranger. Somewhere there is a balance, find it.
remember that every employee is an individual. Each has a different set of needs each responds differently and to different things. Become familiar with the needs and desires of each employee. You may have heard of pushing someone’s buttons. every employee has a different name on their button, so read the name.
perhaps the whole secret is to know who or what type of person to hire. a young person with no wife and family might not be the best choice. There are certain characteristics to look for in every person you hire. So here again is a topic for which you need to put on your thinking cap and think long and hard about. in discipleship training I was taught to look for someone who was FAT. FAT stands for faithful available and teachable. perhaps though a young person may be a good choice if you can convince them that with you they can learn the profession and advance their career and salary and do so quickly and to a high level.
you may also want to look at forming a "corporate culture" and making known to employees that you are working on one. a corporate culture goes way beyond what an employee perceives are his chances of making more money. A corporate culture applies to every detail of what a company is and does and how they do things.
l would say to strengthen your abilities in the areas of mentoring and employee training and development. Develop a career track for people. When you can do this, this and this I will pay you this. when you demonstrate the ability to do these tasks i will give you another set of tasks and another raise to x dollars. Give employees hope for the future.
toot your own horn / tell horror stories about your competition. if you are a good person/ company to work for, every once in a while remind employees that you are a good person / company to work. no other company would let you use a company vehicle while yours is in the shop getting repaired. Say something like no other company in this area has a career and salary advancement program. try to build in them an attitude of thankfulness. man I’m glad he let me use a company vehicle, he is a nice guy so thanks but no thanks for the job offer, I like working where i am.
you might try taking some seminars or classes on employee training and development or look for training and retaining videos. Or hang out a lot in the business section of all sorts of well stocked bookstores or go to amazon.com
Let me put in a plug for one of my favorite stores, SUCCESSORIES. You can find it on the web at successories.com
the fact that you are thinking about retaining good people is the first step, now, put on your thinking cap and think longer and harder.
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