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The
Incredible Machine called Human!
Greetings!
At a recent gathering of talent recruiters, a prevailing leadership
challenge cited was employee retention, a thorny
issue no doubt for many organizations. Loosing good
members of your team is caused by different factors not the least of
which is our appetite for numbers at the expense of proper
maintenance for these complex "machines" at our disposal
we call human beings.
Of course, target benchmarks are important and invaluable
to help us run operations. Nonetheless, employees
are far too complex to run by numbers alone. They
need (and want) to be heard, developed and nurtured.
They want to have a positive sense of self-worth
associated with what they do. They want to grow with
you and they care a great deal about the value
others place on their work. They also want their service
to reflect high quality. Yet its easy to ignore
these factors as we grind through targets and benchmarks.
Its like running a piece of equipment non-stop without maintenance.
Consider This--
Challenge your leadership team to genuinely care about
their people as they interface with them. Spend an extra
minute or so
finding out what their needs are. What obstacles they
need removed that impedes their performance improvement. Implement development initiatives you have
been putting off.
Remember, the "saw will cut better
and faster when you sharpen it". The best use of targets and benchmarks? As
guideposts to support your communications, be it setting
goals, giving recognition, improving performance or
conducting performance appraisals. Employees are
vital and very expensive "machines" your organization
needs. They need "maintenance" to not only get the
best out of them, but to keep them too.
Much
success,
Sobem Nwoko
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
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