The first rule of having employees is obviously to make sure you hire well. But, hiring isn’t done in a vacuum. You can find and onboard the best and brightest employees available to you. If they don’t flourish and stick around, your Middle Market organization is missing a huge piece of hiring.
Retention and employee engagement should have the same priority and energy devotion as recruiting and hiring get. A huge piece of retention & keeping employees engaged is to give them opportunities and tools to help them grow.
What A Focus On Individual Growth Means For Your Organization
Do you enjoy employees who love their job and are enthusiastic about your company and brand? Is it helpful when employees bring you fantastic networking opportunities? Or suggest the ‘just right’ person that leads to a great hire? If everyone who works for you cared as much as you do and had as much passion, where could you go?
It’s pretty easy to see how engaged and excited employees can greatly impact your organization. The surest way to make sure you have raving fans for employees is to give them opportunities to grow. Let them build their skills, knowledge, talents and areas of expertise as much as possible.
Having a robust training and development plan does many things for your Middle Market company. Firstly, employees know their starting point in your company is just that. They will be offered opportunities to move beyond and up. For you, it means you will have a steady stream of employees to fill higher positions. It could possibly help with your succession planning.
It also means you’ll reap the benefits of employees who keep an eye on the bottom line and look for every opportunity to improve processes or seek efficiencies.
Investing In Personal Development Is Investing In Your Company
Certainly, you can’t promote and educate every single employee or turn each person into a CEO. The really nice part is, not everyone wants the same things, so that isn’t likely to be an issue.
Some employees may just want to work on becoming the best they can be in their particular role. They don’t desire to move into management or lead a team. They will focus on refining their tasks and processes to gain the most efficiency. Whether they are in Marketing, Production, R&D or Finance, having a base of your teams dedicated to knowing as much as they can about their jobs and continuing to look for ways to make everything run better and more efficiently is a huge boon to your Middle Market firm.
Other employees will want to climb the corporate ladder, so they will help you by building up your leadership and C-Suite. You may end up having some people who leave, but will remain supporters and will help build practices and tools that stay in place long after they have left.
By allowing your employees to see how much importance you place on personal development and growth, you’ll spark their creativity and ingenuity. You’ll teach everyone how much you value their ideas and input – you wouldn’t spend time and money developing them if you didn’t want it used.
Any money, time or resources you use to build up employees will be recouped easily by your Middle Market company. Focusing on employee development creates better processes, more efficiency, stronger teams and can open doors to success beyond what you’ve imagined.
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