Our coaching team appreciates the challenge of masterminding the right mix of talent, personalities, and action items. Fortunately, easy tweaks often go a long way to enhance comfort, participation, and awareness of nuances in a team member’s behavior. Recently, I worked with a senior leader in financial services who felt it was his responsibility to control the agenda and results of all meetings; in fact, he considered it part of his job. He was baffled that his
Avoiding The Great Resignation
One of the most perplexing questions our corporate clients ask is, “Will our talent actually stay?” The concern is that many talented people are leaving their positions for more desirable jobs. Some people refer to this as The Great Resignation.
For instance, a client of mine, with 20 years of experience in helping tech companies scale from 50 to 2,000 employees explained, “There is no great resignation, there is talent everywhere, but they get to decide where they are going. That’s the difference.”
What a thought! Talented individuals in most corporate spaces are now in control! The business world is a buyer’s market, and the more talented get to buy. So, what are companies doing to keep talent? Monetary incentives, kudos, flexible work schedules, and work-life balance only go so far to keep people within the fold.
Smart companies are investing in Power Skills. The New York Institute of Finance explains that Power Skills include adaptability, creativity, decision-making, time management, and communication. Suffice to say that all these inform the last descriptor. More simply, communication is the Power Skill.
An employee who can communicate well can succeed in any environment. We’re seeing more and more companies who want employees to stay are incentivizing them to do so through communication coaching and training.
If you want your people to stay, investing only in job-specific skills is not enough. You should probably do a little more – invest in them. Invest in their life-long personal growth by giving them the Power Skill of effective communication. It is the wisest investment to make with a significant ROI to the person and the company.
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Dr. Ian Turnipseed
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