This is what I hear from most employers right now. “We can’t find good people to fill our jobs and when we do, they aren’t staying.”
And everyone is looking for the secret to fixing this problem.
· The good people are out there. But maybe your attraction strategy isn’t aligned to where they are. Where are their eyeballs? Go there.
· Maybe there aren’t qualified candidates, and you need to redesign the job to attract entry level people and then train them.
· And what if the turnover is not going to change. Instead of staying three plus years at a job, people are going to leave after one year.
How would you adjust your approach to attraction and retention if the difficulty you are experiencing now is the norm. If you accept that today’s reality is not going to change, then what?
· Would you change your benefits that are tied to long tenure? Would you provide something in place of those benefits?
· Would you ask your newly hired employees what matters to them? What do they care about?
· Would your talent acquisition and development strategies change substantially?
How would you change your approach to compensation?
· Would you create career steps that recognize skill acquisition and experience at one year or less?
· Would you bring them in higher in the base pay range to make it more difficult for them to leave?
· How would you deliver incentives if their tenure was expected to be less than a year?
And finally, would you change how you connect with your employees?
· Would you listen closely to their concerns and find what matters to them?
· Would you tailor your approach to meet them where they are and build a relationship and deliver rewards that consider their needs at the same level as the business needs?
· Or would treat them as throwaway people that aren’t committed and are going to leave soon away so why invest your time and energy into them?
Each day we make choices. In each interaction with each other we make choices. And as you determine the rewards you deliver to employees, you are making choices.
Don’t argue with reality. Accepting reality and aligning your choices to it is powerful. So is asking and answering difficult questions.
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