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Where did all the good ones go?
Recovery may seem a long way off, given recent global events. However, if you don’t invest in your good staff now, as the recovery begins and confidence in the economy grows, you may be asking yourself, where did all the good ones go?
If your long term employee retention strategy has been to assume that people will stay because there is nowhere else to go, you may be in for a shock when the sun shines on opportunities more attractive than staying with you. It’s important to act now to stop your good ones climbing over the fence to the greener grass leaving you with a bare patch where a reliable performer used to be. More importantly, fed up people give lack lustre performances, so while we’re all waiting for things to perk up we also need to be part of the recovery with a motivated team of people raring to go.
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So what do your good performers want in the dark days of economic gloom? What will keep them motivated now and keep them with you when opportunity comes calling? The answer is simple - development. If people can’t move on physically to another organisation they need to feel they are at least moving on professionally and personally and you are beautifully placed to make their dreams come true.
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We’re not talking big budgets to do this with either. Not every development goal is reached by an expensive external course with a high profile business school. If that’s within your gift and it hits the spot then go for it. Most of the time though, it might be something a little less dramatic and expensive. We deliver one to one coaching on specific skills or behaviours which can be much more cost effective than the scatter gun approach of a course picked randomly out of the latest training brochure. Time and time again we see the people we coach produce higher levels of skill or behaviour which means they produce better results and feel great while they do it. A typical coaching programme, tailored to your agreed goals is as little as £400 per session, book two before the end of September and we’ll make it £350 per session and you can take them any time between now and the end of the year.
Maybe you’ve got a group of people with the same need for skills development. We offer workshops in an array of skills from making an impact through presentations to the full range of management skills. Running an in house workshop means it’s tailored to your environment. Our workshops start at £1200 for up to 12 participants, that’s £100 per head for development that keeps them motivated and developed.
Clients tell us our individual development programmes make a significant impact. If you want to find out more, contact us for a chat.
You may not be able to offer fabulous benefit packages, meteoric promotions through your flat structure or a range of incentives to keep people keen. Lucky for you that isn’t really what does it for people who have begun to feel stale and stagnant and in need of a little movement in their lives and careers. By staying close to your staff, understanding what development would give them a feeling of going forward and conquering their feelings of inertia, you’re more likely to keep them motivated. That means better performance. It also means they’re more likely to stay your side of the fence in the long term.