Employee Retention Tips

There are many employee retention tips out there but few identify the true foundation of employee retention: effective employee training.

If you read up on employee retention strategies, you'll undoubtedly hear about hiring strategies, managerial strategies, relationship strategies, business philosophies and more. It has been said that the five areas of interest in employee retention are:

While these are all part of the equation, a vital point is missing: production.

Employee morale is created by production. A low-producing team is a low-morale team. Properly training employees and demanding high production are two of the most important aspects of employee retention.

Now, let's qualify something here. Production doesn't simply mean busy. People can look busy but be producing nothing. Production refers to producing things that have exchange value outside of the activity itself. For example, a salesperson produces sold products and services that results in money for the company. In exchange, he is paid by the company.

In order to feel valuable as an employee, one must produce valuable products that contribute to the company's overall product. If he doesn't, he won't feel he has any purpose in the company. I'm sure you can imagine where things go from there.

The two most important factors of employee retention are effectively training your employees so they can produce valuable products and then pushing them to maintain high production. These points are more important than business philosophies, benefits programs, employee relationships and even more important than pay.

If your employees aren't properly trained, pushing for production won't work. They won't be able to keep up; they'll make too many mistakes and cause too much trouble. Therefore, the foundation of employee retention is employee training.

What you want is a system that will create proud, productive, motivated and loyal employees. Effective employee training is that system. Why?

When an employee is rapidly taught a job and can then go do it competently, he feels empowered and stable. He has high morale and is proud of his abilities and products. Simply put, he feels in control and he likes it.

When he is improperly taught a job and has problems performing it, he feels weak and insecure. Work becomes an uncomfortable environment; a reminder of his incompetence and confusions.

These statements are obviously true to most, but the big problem is how do you build employee training that uniformly creates 100% proficient, competent employees?

Well, that's where we come in. Building truly effective employee training programs that result in 100% job proficiency is a tough, time-consuming and highly technical activity. Thus it's no surprise that it's also one of the most overlooked areas in any business. It's viewed as a cost center, not a profit center.

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