Dr. Brent Fessler - Retaining Rock Star Employees

Join host, Joel Gunn, and co-host Dr. Brent Fessler as they discuss how to unlock the power of your 🌟rock star 🌟employees!

In challenging times, it's crucial to invest in your team's growth and keep your best employees engaged. 🚀 They are the driving force behind your organization's success. 💪 

By fostering a culture of trust and autonomy, you empower your rock stars to flourish and thrive.🌱 Encourage open communication and involve them in decision-making processes. 💼 Their unique perspectives can lead to innovative solutions. 💡

Remember to prioritize their long-term goals and dreams. 🌈 Help them create a roadmap for success and provide the support they need to achieve it. ✨

#Leadership #TeamEngagement #InvestInYourPeople #RockStars #GrowthMindset #Empowerment #Success #innovation 

The Importance of Focusing on Purpose and Mission in Changing Markets
   As leaders, it's crucial to maintain altitude and remember our purpose and mission, especially in changing markets. Focusing on the most important aspects of our organization, such as our people and long-term objectives, is key. Avoiding the trap of relying on easily measurable factors, like cash and sales numbers, ensures we make informed decisions based on deeper understanding and not just superficial information.

Investing in People: Retaining Rock Star Employees through Tough Times
   Brent emphasizes the importance of investing in people, regardless of whether the company is contracting or experiencing rapid growth. In tough times, leaders may unintentionally pull the wrong levers due to risk and pressure, whereas in growth mode, they tend to be more risk-takers and willing to invest in employees.

The Power of Integrating Organizational Identity
   Brent discusses the importance of leaders being aware of their organization's identity and ensuring it is integrated throughout the company. This includes having a clear mission statement and ensuring it is relevant, robust, and accurate. It also emphasizes the need for the identity to be reflected in the company's dashboards and decision-making processes.

The Importance of Integrity in Organizations and Personal Relationships
   Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and in an organization, it means staying true to the mission, purpose, and core values. To maintain integrity, leaders must ensure their team understands the mission and values, and consider creating a test to evaluate decisions. For example, the Rotary has the Four Way Test, and parents can use the Love Test with their children.

Bridging the Gap: Assessing Consistency & Embracing the Brutal Facts
   The framework for creating a test to determine whether an organization is living out its core values involves assessing the consistency between the ideal self and the actual self. This requires a feedback loop to analyze and make decisions that close the gap between the two. In terms of communication during a crisis, recognizing the brutal facts and embracing them can lead to better outcomes and greater growth.

The Importance of Communicating Core Values and Establishing a Strong Corporate Identity
   Maintaining a strong corporate identity is crucial, especially during crises or changes. Leaders must model good behavior, investing in messaging and incorporating core values into communication. Encouraging discussion around core values fosters a strong sense of identity and better understanding among team members.

Integrating Core Values: Building a Culture for Success
   Brent discusses the importance of integrating a company's core values into its culture, vocabulary, and decision-making processes. It emphasizes the need for visible communication, promotion, and recognition of those who exhibit the desired behavior. Additionally, it touches on factors that help retain top talent, including compensation and the overall work environment.

The Role of Compensation and Growth in Employee Job Satisfaction
   Hosts discuss the importance of compensation and growth in an employee's job satisfaction. They mention that shallow culture influences decisions on salary, but deeper factors such as growth for the organization and personal growth are crucial. People generally feel a need to grow and stagnation can lead to dissatisfaction and turnover.

The Power of Autonomy: Enhancing Satisfaction and Performance in the Workplace
   Hosts discuss the importance of autonomy in the workplace and how it affects employee satisfaction and performance. They highlights that even small amounts of autonomy can make a difference, and provide examples of how leaders can give employees more control over certain aspects of their work. Additionally, Brent mentions the common tendency for people to seek control when faced with change, and how this can be problematic in leadership situations.

• Likes
• Download13
• Share