L E A D E R S H I P
Why Good
Employees Leave
and What to Do
About It
Five strategies to retain your company’s
most valuable asset – its people
Submitted by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers
The impact felt when an employ-ee
leaves is exacerbated when
labour markets are tight. Leaders
at all levels in the organization need
to be cognizant of the message their
actions send to employees when some-one
leaves.
“Leaders are always being watched.
How the leadership reacts when some-one
leaves is going to impact how
everyone else reacts,” said Marissa
Levin, co-founder of Successful Culture
International, and a culture and leader-ship
expert.
“If they are transparent, honest and
don’t act like the sky is falling, they
acknowledge the loss, but pivot quickly
to fill that gap, employees will take that
cue, and things will go on without a
glitch,” she said.
And if you feel that workers
today don’t have the same loyalty to
employers that previous generations
did, you are correct.
“Younger generations definitely have
less tolerance for being unhappy,” said
Levin. “They are just not going to stay
in a job if it’s not fulfilling a purpose
that they believe in.”
So, what can employers in construc-tion
do to attract and keep employees
on the job in this market? Levin offers
five key strategies.
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