Employees are the key to your company's success. Let's think about this for a moment. You spend money advertising for a position. You spend days, weeks, even months looking for that perfect candidate. You interview, ask questions and finally settle on someone that you feel is the right fit. They meet with HR, do their new hire paperwork and start day one at their new job. Then What? Do you give them to another employee to "train"? If so do you check on them in a week or a month? You hire experienced people you say. I shouldn't need to check on them. I hired them to do a job. I'm not a babysitter! This may all be true however statistically employees want to work for a company with a positive company culture. This may be more important than rate of pay for some and just as important for others. A training program will create high morale from the beginning. Creating a team environment is another way to keep morale high. team projects and events will get your employees interacting with each other. People want to be part of a team. Not just sitting in front of a computer emailing each other. Email is necessary for some things but it should never take the place of face to face conversations. Weekly meetings with your staff is important. Go over ideas, problems, concerns and successes. This shows you care and you play a serious part in their careers. Meeting with employees does not mean reading them the riot act. It means opening up the floor to interaction. Going over both positive and negatives. Answering questions and listening. The less you see your employees the more time they have to wonder about the future of the company and their futures with the company. Quarterly lunches to celebrate great numbers or sales. Showing employees how much they are appreciated goes along way! Directly handling employees issues is also important. Don't group people together. If one person on the team is not performing. Talk directly one on one with them to resolve the problem. The bottom line is become invested in your employees and their success. If you are going out of your way to find A players to work for you. Go out of your way to keep them!
