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The Top 8 Reasons Your Best People Are About To Quit -- And How You Can Keep Them
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So, you would probably be surprised to know that more Americans are
quitting their jobs today than at any point in the past 4 years. In March
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t04.htm), 2.475 million
Americans quit their jobs. This has been steadily increasing recently
from a low in late 2009 (just after the financial collapse finally bottomed
out) from a monthly rate of 1.7 million quits a month.
Just think about that for a second. Even in the darkest days in the
aftermath of the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression,
1.7 million Americans each month were willing to tell their bosses to take
this job and shove it.
The world has changed. Although were not back to the pre-financial
crisis quitting levels of 3 million a month (in January 2007), people are
more confident in their job abilities than theyve ever been since 2010.
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So why are almost 2.5 million Americans a month these days or about
30 million a year willing to quit their jobs?
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Theres an old saying: people quit their bosses, not their jobs.
If you want to keep the most talented members of your team, its time you
started looking in the mirror and realize the biggest reasons why people
quit have to do with you.
Here they are:
1. Youve overloaded your best people with too many responsibilities. At a lot of
companies in America, there have been waves of layoffs over the past 6 years. In cut after
cut, theres a constant job staffing question: how do we get the same amount of stuff done
with fewer employees to do it? The simple answer has been to get the remaining employees
to do the jobs of 2 or 3 old employees, in addition to the regular job responsibilities they
used to have. And then a lot of bosses never revisited staffing responsibilities 3 or 4 years
later. Its time to take a fresh look at whos doing what in your group and probably
redistribute how work is getting done on the team. Your best people need to be doing higher
level stuff, not just getting lower level stuff done. Your best people will quit if theyre just
continuing to be asked to do the same boring stuff years later.
2. Youre a micro-manager. A lot of bosses get promoted because theyre perfectionists.
They were able to get a lot of work done in their old jobs to get noticed. Now, in their new
jobs, they keep wanting to make sure that whoevers doing their old job is doing it just as
well as them. Plus, they are into all their direct reports business as well. Having your
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fingers on the pulse of whats going on (or not going on) in your group is good management.
But, at some point, you cross the line into micro-managing. Your worst people are probably
happy for you to tell them what to do constantly. But your best people will be driven up the
wall by this tendency. They want to know you give them a task and then enough rope to let
them do it rather than doing it for them.
3. Youre never around. The opposite of a micro-manager is a drive-by manager. This is
the boss whos perpetually never in the office. Theyre not around. They dont check in.
They give you a job to do and then check back with you 3 months later on if its done yet.
Lots of bosses protest that they have an open door policy for their people to come in and
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4. Youre not in touch with how some of your hires or promotions are driving
your best people nuts. Its human nature to want to be around other people we like and
trust. Why would we choose to be around and hire people we dislike and dont trust?
However, we usually like people who like us. Even though we think were good at spotting
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great you are. Big problems arise when we promote based on who we like instead of on
merit. One promotion or hire like that is ok, but two or three can sabotage a teams morale.
If youre out of touch with whos really talented on your team and who youre promoting or
hiring, its a matter of time before your best people tender their resignation. Why stick
around if the bozos get promoted?
5. Youve never given your people a sense of where they can go in their careers.
Nobody takes us aside out of college or even in business school and teaches us how to sit and
talk with our direct reports about upward career progression. As a boss, most of us just want
to make sure all our work gets done. But how much do you care about getting that next
promotion? It turns out that your people care about it just as much. So take the time to talk
to them individually. Ask them where they want to go in their careers it turns out many
wont have a clue but will appreciate you showing an interest. Talk to them about how they
can get there, including what kinds of experiences and successes by them would make them
stand out to your bosses.
6. You run terrible meetings. Even one of the most successful CEOs in the world today,
Google (/companies/google/) GOOGL -1.02% (/companies/google/) s Larry Page
(http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-page/), wasnt born with a keen understanding or
respect for being a good boss as this account describes
(http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-2014-4). Page a recent
doctoral student at Stanford, when he started Google thought the ideal way to run
meetings was to instigate a big argument among a team. Whoever had the best idea, he
thought, would rise to the top. Instead, he created anarchy and a lot of hurt feelings. There
are plenty of other way to run ineffective meetings including never calling them or letting
them go on and on with no real action items coming out of them. All these approaches are
tremendously morale-sapping.
about yourself than you do them. Its tough to win back their support after that. So, show
more than your own. Show that you want
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the team to win more than you want you to win.
8. Youve never given them the big picture vision of where your group is heading
or you are constantly changing the big picture. Some bosses are great at strategy but
theyve got their head stuck in the clouds or like to change the groups strategy every
quarter. Some bosses are about as strategic as a banana. Either extreme is bad and
debilitating for your staff. As a boss, youve got to tell the group where their North Star is,
the direction theyre heading in and why. Then, youve got to give them everything they need
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to get there. Sometimes business conditions change and the strategy changes, but that
should happen infrequently. If you worked for yourself as a direct report, what would you
think of the strategic direction youre setting?
Its not too late. Before your best people quit and
join the other 2.5 million Americans who will this
month, why dont you take control as a boss and
prevent that from happening?
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The Sales Funnel is one of the most tried and true tools in business
today. For every prospect you put into the top of the funnel, only a small
percentage will drop out of the bottom of the funnel as a closed sale.
Unless the funnel is constantly replenished at the top, it will experience
moments when no sales drop out of the bottom. Every CEO, VP of Sales,
and sales rep understands the importance of constant vigilance over the
funnel or else deal with the consequences of dry spots as they go on.
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where she might be a poor fit or in an impossible situation that might tear
down her confidence, you need to ensure that they are adequately
challenged and solving problems that are important to the organization.
Are you shining a light on their successes or are you hogging the
spotlight? Do you mention their names when they do a stellar job on your
quarterly conference calls or do you characterize it as an organizational
achievement?
Are you providing them with enough discretion to run their businesses?
Many departing executives complain that the biggest reason for leaving a
position was that they felt hamstrung in making some of the decisions
that they saw as crucial to their divisions or the companys future
success. While some leaders clearly long to have the title CEO, most #2s
or #3s leave because they feel their current #1s dont give them enough
rope to do what they think is best. Give them the rope they want, but
ensure you hold them accountable for results as well.
Is your company and industry growing? Many executives will jump ship
when they feel that their current company has seen better days. The more
attractive the external environment is, the more important it is that your
company be seen as having an attractive growth curve ahead of it. If you
are not growing, how can you make your current senior management
team part of the solution to leading your company back to growth? Are
you asking them only to be responsible for downsizing or are you also
asking them to find small new ways for their divisions or functional areas
to grow?
The Culture of Change and the Leadership Funnel:
I would be surprised if your organization was not going through some
radical change at the moment and if your industry was not going to be
very different in 5 years from how it appears today. The most common
destabilizing threats include industry consolidation, introduction of new
technologies, price commoditization, automation, out-sourcing, offshoring, and larger adjacent players coming into the market.
Organizations are not abstract objects; they are a collection of people and
assets. Sometimes the people are the assets. Therefore, to change the
organization, you need to change the peoples attitudes, skills, and
behaviors and that is done through leadership not through changing
some numbers on the budget or through lay-offs.
Without an abundance of leaders, who will lead your divisions and
functions through radical change?
One of the pleasant secondary benefits of adopting a Leadership Funnel
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