Are You Having Trouble Keeping Staff Members?

At Leadership OD, our members are having more trouble keeping staff members and finding new ones. The problems are consistently related to good team-members being lured away by other companies for more money or more friendly work conditions (better hours, more flexibility, working from home, etc.). We have heard of multiple offices that have lost everyone, without notice.

We are all aware of the big factors affecting this nationwide trend; the Great Resignation, inflation, new attitudes about work/life balance and overall stressful times. Remembering Fundamental #1 - “It Doesn’t Matter Who is to Blame,” let’s get to work fixing what can be fixed.

Tough Fact: In general, practices that make a priority of building a strong team culture are not having a problem with this. There are certainly exceptions to this rule but the offices that do a good job of having consistent, high quality interactions with the team are far less likely to struggle with this new paradigm that is hurting our workforce.

Our recommendations to combat this issue are two-fold:

Develop a strong teamwork culture with communication as the foundation.
A strong sense of community is critical to the fostering of employee loyalty. Be diligent about establishing regular interactions with your team. The most effective method is to have a rhythm of in person meetings on a daily or weekly basis. The details vary as much as our practices, but the point is to be committed.
Find a way to do more with less.
Explore the possibility of NOT replacing lost staff members. Discuss with the remaining team members that pay increases are possible only if we all do more to pick up some extra tasks. Let the entire team help to decide.

At Leadership OD, our specialty is helping you communicate better with your team and explore new ways to do things.

Let us help by exploring our services or calling for a consultation.