Recruit the best team members through Referrals:
- Create a Formula for clear Job Postings that ‘draws’ the best talent
- Referral Program: Set- up Yours Today! Here’s How:
- When there is a job opening, ask your employees first ‘who do they know’
- Set a formal monetary ‘rewards’ scale; different dollar amounts depending on job title;
- When new hire ‘starts’, pay current employee referral reward within 30 days or less (don’t wait until 90 days; this lowers the number of referrals you get from employees and becomes counter-productive to your referral program.)
- ‘Celebrate’ when a referral becomes a new hire (make a big deal of the connection)
Retention
- More Tips / specific Tools from our best area recruiters: Kelli Long / Tonya Hendley
Retain the great Team members you already have:
- Honor New Grads, Work Anniversaries, Birthdays, and such, in a monthly Celebration time
- Who are your best Team members / Collect Retention Ideas / Focus on Individualism
- Specific Incentives for Team members – Write down specific incentives for each team member
- Team Communication – Reinforce Weekly/Monthly / Daily communication moments.
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- Schedule 15 minutes per month to have a briefing meeting for each member to review with the group, any new trends in the industry that they want to share
- The ‘Stay’ Conversation:
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- Quarterly ask each employee what would make them ‘stay’ (not just money). How can you, as the leader, help them?
- Building Trust
Review Team Members’ Performance Quarterly: Coach Individuals Daily / Always Develop Team Skill
- Review what the Team Developmental Needs are – through Assessment
- Individual Coaching Sessions based on Individual’s Skills/ Values/ Personality Traits
- ‘Launch the Team’ Workshop Specifics: Review of Personality Traits of the Team
- Include Level of Engagement / Shared Team Values /Team Goals for the Near Future
Your Team’s Next Step: Performance System Based on Coaching Principles / Ideas to Use
More on that in our next blog post