Hiring, Retaining, and Engaging Part 1

Company leaders today have been faced with unprecedented challenges since the beginning of the pandemic. They still need their staff to perform the same level of work as pre-pandemic. Yet they are short-staffed, due to many reasons, including what has been deemed, The Great Resignation. 

I recognized that leaders and their teams were facing three issues: Hiring, Retaining, and Engaging their staff, so I developed this survey to define the key issues businesses are facing. By applying my understanding of these issues, I decided to develop programs that provide ways to resolve these issues. 

Methodology:

• The survey was conducted with 36 companies. Despite the small sample size, Dale was still able to gain insight on some intriguing tendencies. 

• The survey was geared toward “employees and/or contractors”, which is defined as “teammates”.
• The companies ranged from solopreneurs, medium (100+teammates) & 1 large company (over 2,000 teammates).
• The companies who participated were not from any specific industry or location.

It was noted that the size of the company impacted how the “teammates” responded; the survey results show that the differences were very noticeable. 

Over the next few months, I will be sharing the survey results and conclusions for these 4 critical areas:

1. Hiring 

• Finding the right hire was considered highly important, especially in larger companies
• Several key skills were identified as significant for finding the best hire

2. Retaining 

• Keeping employees was very important to most of the respondents
• Several factors that lend to work satisfaction, were consistently identified by the respondents

3. Engaging

• Encouraging employees to be involved was deemed important to most respondents
• Several engagement factors were acknowledged as important to the respondents

4. Other challenges & summary- 

• The responses from my survey were so varied that it was hard to make any broad conclusions. 
• Coaching teams can help improve team performance. 

Over the course of the next few months, I will be highlighting my survey findings.  

In my next blog, I will share how companies ranked hiring and the key factors.

Coach Dale

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