Archive for Keeping and Engaging Employees
Preventing the “air sandwich”
May 25, 2011Leaders who bring charisma, humane and team orientation, and participative approaches that enable them to adapt to the employees’ different orientations will be better able to motivate and retain employees.
Noel Tichy says that leaders whose calendars commit to investing 20% of their time with people are more effective. Scheduling time to talk with people helps both leaders and followers learn what they might not have guessed, adapt the conversation to be mission focused or career focused, and revisit processes and systems that need to be refreshed or revised. When we don’t do that, an “air sandwich” develops between the strategy and those who implement it.
Dr. Noel M. Tichy is a Professor of Management & Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Be SMART and Keep Your Best
December 25, 2010This is a great article about the changing farm dynamics and how to keep employees, whether family or outside employees, working on your farm.
There are some great tips from Michelle Painchaud, PPG President and CEO, about how to manage and keep employees happy, so that they stay.
“Employees want an environment where they like what they do, feel valued and appreciated and are challenged,” she explained. “It is to your advantage to keep a good employee happy. The cost of losing an employee can be as much as three times their salary. Not only do you have to do the work that they were doing while you find a new employee, you have to train someone new. And, there’s also a risk that the loss of one employee can demotivate those who are staying.”
To read the full article, download it here.
