Leadership Tip

How to build a thriving workplace

To attract and retain the best talent in your industry, you need to offer candidates an inspiring, engaging workplace. Fortunately, transforming your company culture, adopting more transparent policies, and engaging your employees does not require a huge budget. With careful planning, you can implement measures that will allow your workers and business to thrive.

  1. Hold entry interviews. Businesses often ask staff why they resign, so why not ask why they are joining or staying? Why wait until people have already committed to walk out of the door?
     
  2. Provide a sense of purpose. Employees want to be able to answer the question: ‘Why am I doing this?’ You will get so much better work out of somebody if they feel part of the culture or mission.
     
  3. Learn to nurture talent. Managers really need to connect with employees. Without it, the phenomenon of phoning in or quiet quitting can lead to being unable to retain and make use of great talent, especially in the environment we are in right now.
     
  4. Close the understanding gap. Different generations can approach work in very different ways. Leaders can empower their younger staff by creating workplace that bridge this gap.

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