Posted On April 8, 2021
There are currently more jobs than skilled staff to fill roles. Retaining your employees is critical for business success in keeping not only their skills and abilities, but their experience and knowledge of your business systems, history and needs.
In my recent visits to a range of local businesses I had some enlightening chats regarding retention of staff. The good news is for many of our local businesses, employee loyalty and retention remain high. However, I was surprised to learn many businesses lacked retention strategies.
Once you have attracted and recruited new staff, you want to keep them motivated and engaged. Your business should have a detailed strategy for onboarding and integration. Be pro-active in establishing these retention strategies, which I guarantee will save your business time, money and boost morale.
Sara Towers, Talent and Skills Manager at CEDA agrees businesses should be pro-active, with processes in place to integrate new recruits to their business “Businesses need to consider how they receive and integrate their new employees, along with the long-term retention of their staff.”
The onboarding of new employees can be hugely beneficial especially to newcomers to the region. “If you can support not only the employee, but also their family, providing direction on the tools and support available to assist them to settle within the Manawatu, you are highly likely to retain your employee.” Manawatunz.co.nz is one such resource with a range of stories and links for newcomers.
I recommend developing your own retention strategy to keep your employees engaged including:
Training, Development and Mentoring
Foster the talents and objectives for individual employees
Why do they want to work for you and stay with you?
How do you value the work your employees do?
What do you do to show your respect?
Career progression and succession.
Sara believes encouraging regional retention of talent will improve the quality of our workforce. “We want to keep our skilled workers employed and engaged so we retain their talent in the Manawatu.”
Our PN Personnel mission is to positively impact of people’s lives and make the regions a better place. We believe by retaining staff, your business can thrive, the team and I are here to support both our regional talent and your organisational success.
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