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Bad Mistakes That Make Good Employees Leave
January 27, 2016 • 468,123 Views • 7,869 Likes • 1,050 Comments
It’s tough to hold on to good employees, but it shouldn’t be. Most of the mistakes that companies make are easily avoided. When you do make mistakes, your best employees are the first to go, because they have the most options.
If you can’t keep your best employees engaged, you can’t keep your best employees. While this should be common sense, it isn’t common enough. A survey by the Corporate Executive Board found that one-third of star employees feel disengaged from their employer and are already looking for a new job.
When you lose good employees, they don’t disengage all at once. Instead, their interest in their jobs slowly dissipates. Michael Kibler, who has spent much of his career studying this phenomenon, refers to it as brownout. Like dying stars, star employees slowly lose their fire for their jobs.
“Brownout is different from burnout because workers afflicted by it are not in obvious crisis,”Kibler said. “They seem to be performing fine: putting in massive hours, grinding out work while contributing to teams, and saying all the right things in meetings. However, they are operating in a silent state of continual overwhelm, and the predictable consequence is disengagement.”
In order to prevent brownout and to retain top talent, companies and managers must understand what they’re doing that contributes to this slow fade. The following practices are the worst offenders, and they must be abolished if you’re going to hang on to good employees.
They make a lot of stupid rules. Companies need to have rules—that’s a given—but they don’t have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order. Whether it’s an overzealous attendance policy or taking employees’ frequent flier miles, even a couple of unnecessary rules can drive people crazy. When good employees feel like big brother is watching, they’ll find someplace else to work.
They treat everyone equally. While this tactic works with school children, the workplace ought to function differently. Treating everyone equally shows your top performers that no matter how high they perform (and, typically, top performers are work horses), they will be treated the same as the bozo who does nothing more than punch the clock.
They tolerate poor performance. It’s said that in jazz bands, the band is only as good as the worst player; no matter how great some members may be, everyone hears the worst player. The same goes for a company. When you permit weak links to exist without consequence, they drag everyone else down, especially your top performers.
They don’t recognize accomplishments. It’s easy to underestimate the power of a pat on the back, especially with top performers who are intrinsically motivated. Everyone likes kudos, none more so than those who work hard and give their all. Rewarding individual accomplishments shows that you’re paying attention. Managers need to communicate with their people to find out what makes them feel good (for some, it’s a raise; for others, it’s public recognition) and then to reward them for a job well done. With top performers, this will happen often if you’re doing it right.
They don’t care about people. More than half the people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain that their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate their employees’ successes, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge them, even when it hurts. Bosses who fail to really care will always have high turnover rates. It’s impossible to work for someone for eight-plus hours a day when they aren’t personally involved and don’t care about anything other than your output.
They don’t show people the big picture. It may seem efficient to simply send employees assignments and move on, but leaving out the big picture is a deal breaker for star performers. Star performers shoulder heavier loads because they genuinely care about their work, so their work must have a purpose. When they don’t know what that is, they feel alienated and aimless. When they aren’t given a purpose, they find one elsewhere.
They don’t let people pursue their passions. Google mandates that employees spend at least 20% of their time doing “what they believe will benefit Google most.” While these passion projects make major contributions to marquis Google products, such as Gmail and AdSense, their biggest impact is in creating highly engaged Googlers. Talented employees are passionate. Providing opportunities for them to pursue their passions improves their productivity and job satisfaction, but many managers want people to work within a little box. These managers fear that productivity will decline if they let people expand their focus and pursue their passions. This fear is unfounded. Studies have shown that people who are able to pursue their passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state of mind that is five times more productive than the norm.
They don’t make things fun. If people aren’t having fun at work, then you’re doing it wrong. People don’t give their all if they aren’t having fun, and fun is a major protector against brownout. The best companies to work for know the importance of letting employees loosen up a little. Google, for example, does just about everything it can to make work fun—free meals, bowling allies, and fitness classes, to name a few. The idea is simple: if work is fun, you’ll not only perform better, but you’ll stick around for longer hours and an even longer career.
Bringing It All Together
Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.
What other mistakes cause great employees to leave? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below, as I learn just as much from you as you do from me.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Travis Bradberry is the award-winning co-author of the #1 bestselling book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and the cofounder of TalentSmart, the world's leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training, serving more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than 150 countries. Dr. Bradberry has written for, or been covered by, Newsweek, TIME, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review.
If you'd like to learn how to increase your emotional intelligence (EQ), consider taking the online Emotional Intelligence Appraisal® test that's included with the Emotional Intelligence 2.0 book. Your test results will pinpoint which of the book's 66 emotional intelligence strategies will increase your EQ the most.
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Coauthor Emotional Intelligence 2.0 & President at TalentSmart
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Preston VanderVen Preston VanderVen
Promotor at Jacob Sunroom & Exteriors
Great article. I have also noticed that another reason it is hard to keep Great Employees is they have the position only to learn a skill and then move on. There goal is not to "move up the ladder", yet build there own skills to build themselves. So they go from career to career, to learn the skills they need to for the goal of becoming an Entrepreneur. Yet, these skill minded people are great to work with.
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Rob Taylor Rob Taylor
Software Integrator at KUKA Flexible Production Systems
Their goal is to build their own skills.
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Jakub Savić Jakub Savić
H&M Call Centre Back Office Agent
That's a very good point indeed.
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Bryan Kilduff Bryan Kilduff
Employee Education Specialist at Dealey, Renton & Associates. Change Manager, Team Builder, Workflow Optimizer.
Years ago we held onto a poor performing employee because we had trouble finding a replacement. We were worried about overloading teamates with work if we fired the poor performer before finding a replacement. We found out the teamates were more than willing to take on the additional work as the poor performer was having such a negative impact on morale. Poor performing employees should be treated as a cancer in an organization and extracted immediately. The improvement in office morale will outweigh all other factors.
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Kristy Spillman Kristy Spillman
Assistant Director at Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria
As employers, supervisors, etc we should also not underestimate our responsibility in the performance of those that work for us. Too often the 'poor performing worker' is treated as a cancer; where you might actually have a careless, lazy manager who seems to think their job is only about the work and not managing - that includes the people. How many examples can we all think of of a person who seemed to be not performing with one manger but doing great with another. So be careful when you focus too much on extracting the 'cancer' because you might be just looking at a symptom rather than a cause.
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LikersRebecca J. Lomax, Fabio Mellinato, Binita Sondagar, CHRP, +2
Dan Langrish Dan Langrish
B2B Marketing & Sales
As an Employee Education Specialist, Change Manager & Team Builder, you should be be aware there is probably more to it than poor performance!
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Saturday, December 12, 2015
Phnom Tamao, Cambodia
I enjoyed it very much.. Swimming in the lakes, climbing rocks, sleeping in huts, playing with the bears and monkeys, drawing on each other, cooking food, washing clothes by hand, no internet/electricity.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
The Dreamakers II Quotes
I could relate to the story. About the trials of work, backstabbing, pursuit of excellence with the balance of family life.
In The Dreamakers II, the episodes ends with a quote and I decide to compile those which I will like to remember here.
Episode 1
Episode 2
"Neither let praise get to your head nor despair when you're condemned - Carina Lau
Episode 3
"What we see may not be the truth. Because we fail to see what's real and what's not,
the truth catches us off-guard sometimes. So we have no choice but to accept it. We're the author and protagonist of our own scripts. But there are other characters involved. Our fellow actors never follow the script." - Zoe Tay
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Hardwired brain
Lien Siaou-Sze -- HP Senior
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Trans-Pacific Partnership: time for small businesses to think big
- The writer is the president of UPS Asia Pacific Region. UPS is a lead company in the US-Asean Business Alliance for Competitive SMEs and has partnered SME agencies throughout the world to help SMEs export and join global supply chains.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Psychological tricks to get people to do what you want
1. Use a “decoy” option to get people to buy your product.
2. Tweak the environment to get people to act less selfish.
3. Help advance someone’s goals to get them to do you a favor.
5. Speak quickly to get an argument opponent to agree with you.
6. Confuse people to get them to comply with your request.
7. Ask people for favors when they’re tired to get them to cooperate.
9. Use nouns instead of verbs to get people to change their behavior.
10. Scare people to get them to give you what you need.
11. Focus on what your bargaining partner is gaining to get them to agree to your offer.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Helios n the avengers
After watching these 2 movies, I feel energised, nothing can stop me now.. Especially those menial things..
In helios, these was a part where the wife cut short the salute, i suddenly felt the warmth a lady can suddenly bring to a responsible and righteous man.. The lady can control the husband if he is doing too much..
In age of ultron, the girl can control the rage of a man..
I hope there is this girl in my life..
And of course, we need to work as a team
35 things by 35
wise one
1. Really refine your elevator pitch
2. Know your superpower
3. Know your weakness
4. Learn how to delegate
5. Know your career non-negotiables
6. Do something you're really, really proud of
7. Learn from something you're not so proud of
8. Stretch your limits
9. Do something that really scares you
10. Get comfortable with getting feedback
11. Get comfortable with giving feedback
12. Get comfortable with saying no
13. Have a broad network of people you can trust
14. Have a couple of specific career advisors
15. Scrub your online presence
16. Perfect your LinkedIn profile
17. Have a portfolio of your best work
18. Know how to sell (yourself or something else)
19. Know how to negotiate
20. Know how to manage up
21. Know how to send a killer email
22. Master your handshake
23. Find a to-do list system that works for you
24. Know your energy levels — and use them
25. Know how much sleep you need and commit to getting it
26. Know how to manage stress
27. Stop over-apologizing
28. Get over impostor syndrome
29. Have a career emergency plan
30. Pick up a side project
31. Invest in your retirement
32. Invest in yourself
33. Invest in the world
34. Know what you don't want
35. Give yourself permission to go after what you do
Thursday, April 30, 2015
April 15
Just saw a bunch of hair on the MRT platform.. Not the first time seeing it.. Guess SG people r too stressed..
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
The sad truth.. Sales works with facade..
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
PhD finally!
Today I just finished my PhD oral examinations! I am very happy.. Finally after so long, after some financial sacrifices, I am getting the PhD title.. Hopefully I will continue to do well in my career and life. :)
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Thankful for 30/03/2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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