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Retaining Staff Begins with Good Leadership

I recently placed an employment ad on Indeed. In fact, the ad was only open for three days and I did several telephone interviews.

One of the questions that I asked potential employees was this:

Why are you leaving your current job and all the applicants told me: Management!

That reminded me of a phrase that I hear often: ” People leave management not the company.” In fact, I was reminded to keep growing as a leader and creating a great place to work. In this economy, most companies are seeing a high turnover, however, I have found that when you take good care of your employees, they will be loyal to you.

Today I want to share with you 5 ways to take good care of your employees:

  1. Be a positive leader. People want to work for positive people.
  2. Create a family live environment. Encourage the staff to support and check on one another. Afterall, thats what family do right?
  3. Offer extras to your staff such as: stock your break room with refreshments, provide lunch often, bless your staff with random gifts, etc.
  4. Celebrate staff birthdays. Everyone wants to feel special on their birthday. Besides, if they have to work on their birthday, it might as well be a special day.
  5. Get to know what your employees like and talk about that often with your staff. Afterall, they support your dream, so why not support what they like?

Once you create a place where employees want to be, your employees will love to report to work and you will get to see what it feels like to have a dependable and loyal team.

What has been your experience with retaiI look forward to your feedback on this post.

With your Success in mind!

Shiketa Morgan

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The Quote That Inspires My Staff Meetings

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Several years ago, I read a book titled: Power Points of Increase by Bob Harrison. The book was amazing and it changed my thoughts about how you run your Business.

The night before I wrote this blog post, I ran across a quote in the book by my favorite author, John Maxwell and it read:

To get outstanding results,

you need good people with

great talent and outstanding attitudes.

This quote caused me to think about the results that I had been getting in my business and it inspired me to consistently focus on hiring great talent and looking for individuals with outstanding attitudes.

Also, it inspired me to continue to push my staff to grow and to provide positive attitude resources for my team on a weekly basis.

Now my goals at upcoming meetings is this: to show my staff how we can consistently get outstanding results,  how to be great at their jobs and how to be a Positive team!

If you need some positive attitude resources for yourself or your team, check out Jon Gordon’s website.

On his website you will find a wealth of information on Positive Thinking. click here.

I would love to hear from you. What are your thoughts about the quote that I shared in this post?

 

Your Child Care Business Coach,

Shiketa

Get Inspired to Build an Amazing Team when you download, Inspired Center Owner Audio Coaching series.

 

 

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