28/04/2022
7 Perks the Best Employees Crave (and They're All Completely Free)
If you're serious about retaining your best employees, make sure you're giving them the following:
1. Consistent and meaningful communication.
Every healthy relationship begins with good communication.
Research found employees value communication from their managers about "what happens in their lives outside of work."
Good communication contributes to feeling the manager or team lead is invested in him or her as a real person.
2. Sincere commendation.
Praise. Giving credit where credit is due. Telling someone: "Job well done." Whatever you want to call it, people need it--and they respond to it.
3. Flexibility.
From offering the opportunity to work remotely to making a selection of tools available to do the job, flexibility in the workplace is a major advantage for employees.
Employers expect their people to be flexible, so why wouldn't they return the favor?
4. Transparency.
Great company leaders maintain a clear vision and open access to the details that affect their people.
5. New challenges.
It's easy to keep giving the best employees the exact same assignments and tasks, because they're so darn good at them.
The problem is, you risk boring those employees and encouraging stagnation. If you neglect their need to be challenged long enough, they'll look to satisfy it somewhere else.
6. Freedom.
In a model workplace, individuals feel a certain degree of freedom: They're free to explore new ideas, to experiment, and to develop (and adapt) their own working style.
7. Opportunities to grow.
The best business leaders all share a remarkable skill: the ability to make those around them better.
That's why the best employees don't mind hearing constructive criticism--especially when it's delivered with emotional intelligence.