In a competitive, skills-short market, one of the biggest questions on every leader’s mind is how to make their best
Staff turnover is an indicator that something is not right. Understanding why people leave a job is important. It can provide you with some profound information that will help you with your staff retention, talent and recruitment strategies, employee engagement strategies, and improving your employer brand.
Retaining your employees is critical to the success of your business. When you lose staff not only are performance and results impacted, the culture is also affected. Understanding the reasons why people leave jobs will help you assess your own business and identify gaps to immediately improve.
There are 15 main reasons why people leave their jobs.
1. Vision and purpose
The vision of the company is not communicated or believed in giving a feeling that there was no purpose or direction.
2. Leadership
The quality of the leadership in the capabilities, actions, and behaviours they demonstrate.
3. Values
Behaviours of leadership and employees are not in line with the values of the company.
4. Lack of opportunities
Lack of career opportunities or well-defined career path.
5. Investment in learning
Minimal investment in professional development or creating opportunities to learn.
6. Financial benefits
Salary package and benefits not competitive enough in the market.
7. Flexibility in the work environment
Inflexible working environment, not catering for lifestyles, mental health, well-being, and multi-generational workforce.
8. Digital innovation
Slow investment in technology and systems to improve efficiencies and productivity.
9. Morale
Staff morale being low, and no action taken to improve morale or engagement.
10. Culture
Little or no investment in the company culture creating subcultures and a toxic environment.
11. Recognition
Lack of recognition when you do well and little opportunity to celebrate success
12. Mentoring
Lack of coaching and mentoring from direct manager or other leaders within the business creating a lack of personalised development.
13. Activity verses Outcomes
Performance and recognition are driven by activity and unrealistic metrics, not outcomes and results.
14. Social engagement
Lack of social interaction with minimal social events to have fun and get to know people.
15. Toxicity
Not acting on toxic employees or negative behaviour that changes the culture and environment.
Even though some of the feedback can be negative or hard to hear, it is an opportunity to have feedback on how your company is perceived by your employees and others. It is an opportunity to learn and to improve how your organisation is perceived.
For further insights, applicable to your industry, Hunton Executive is available to help.
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