100 Tips From Experts on Retaining and Recruiting Talented Employees
“An often overlooked tip to retain talented employees is to become deeply familiar with and celebrate their unique strengths and how they contribute to the team’s mission overall. As a career counselor, I see many managers make the mistake of believing they know the best way to accomplish a task and dictate that it must be done a specific way, but that way may not be comfortable, easy, or productive for an employee with differing-yet-still-valuable talents. If instead managers focus on articulating the overall goal and trusting their employees to accomplish that goal in the way that they work best, the goal is still met and the employee stays engaged. Think of it like forcing someone to write a sentence with their non-dominant hand just because that is the hand that you write with; if the goal is to end up with a legible, well-written sentence, the way to produce the best result is to let the writer write it how they were naturally born to!”
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