If you’re responsible for developing talent in your organization, you already know retention isn’t just about culture and compensation. It’s about alignment, visibility, and continued development. Here are six frequent drivers of leadership departure and how you can prevent these from derailing employee retention.
Retention
The Silent Cost of Being Unprepared for Leadership Turnover
Whether it happens gradually or all at once, leadership turnover is inevitable. When your organization isn’t prepared, the consequences ripple far beyond an open role.
Is Your Culture Bleeding or Breeding Talent?
Across industries, workplace culture consistently plays a key role in attracting, engaging, and retaining talent. In contrast, organizations with strong defensive cultural norms are notorious for draining talent.
The Importance of Employee Conversations
The work of a manager revolves around conversations. Only through conversations with your team, your peers and work partners, and your own manager, can you influence productivity and engagement.
Engage. Coach. Develop.
Regularly fulfilling these three manager accountabilities – engage, coach, and develop – shows to the employee that the manager is invested in helping the employee prosper.
Becoming the Hero’s Coach
Unfortunately, the well-honed skills that define a great individual contributor don’t always translate to the skills needed to lead people. Even when good people skills are developed success can be elusive unless newly minted managers shift their mindset from being the “hero” as an individual contributor to the “hero’s coach” in managing others.
Blindsided: The Employee Conversations You Should Be Having (But Probably Aren’t)
When managers don’t know what an employee aspires to be or how they feel about future employment opportunities, they create a blind spot for their organizations to see potential risk of unplanned employee turnover.