Employees retention is an outcome of engagement amd engagement is an outcome of how well we recruit and induce new employees. Thereafter, it comes down to how effective our performance leadership and management system is in enabling ongoing engagement for new and existing employees.
The journey to employee engagement and ultimately retention, begins with a move away from the traditional vision, mission and values, to the vision becoming a compelling story. Lastly, a mission becoming a cause beyond profit and finally, values becoming virtues.
Every organisation has a story to tell. Discovering what it is requires a meeting of hearts and minds over time until a story emerges that can be distilled into something that inspires and engages all stakeholders and not just employees. Organisations which have profit as their only goal rarely have an inspiring story to tell. The successful modern organisation have people goals or they have people, planet and profit goals.
People will soon become disenchanted and eventually leave, unless the stated values of the organisation are actually lived. In other words, values are virtues.
Turn your vision into a compelling story, your mission into a cause beyond profit, your values into virtues and your performance leadership and management system into an ongoing people engagement enabler and you will not only thrive in difficult times, you will remove the key causes of the challenges you face, and future-proof your business.
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