A Proactive and Long-Term Solution for High Turnover Rates

Struggling with high employee turnover in your organisation?

Many organisations believe that the solution to high employee turnover is offering more perks or higher salaries.

Although these incentives can seem attractive and may encourage employees to stay a little longer, they don't address the root cause of it.

To put it simply, organisations must be proactive and think of long-term solutions, not temporary fixes, when addressing high turnover rates.

The game-changing strategy leaders should adapt

One of the most impactful strategies leaders can adopt to reduce employee turnover is to prioritise building rapport with their team.

Building rapport is the process of developing a genuine connection with someone.?

It leads to deep?listening, meaningful?conversations, and fulfilling?relationships where everyone involved benefits.

So, take the time to really connect with your team members. Show that you value them not just for their work but as individuals by understanding their goals, needs, and aspirations.

The more genuinely interested you are in your team, the stronger the connection will be.

This, in turn, creates an atmosphere where people feel valued and understood.?

As a result,?you create a stronger sense of loyalty and belonging within your team that leads to higher retention rates, increased productivity, better collaboration, and a thriving organisational culture.

The question now is, how can you build rapport effectively?

The 5 steps to building rapport

Step 1: Physical Mirroring

Copy their posture, facial expressions, hand gestures, movements, and eye blinking.

Step 2: Match their voice

The tone, tempo, quality of their voice, and volume. You can even match keywords such as ‘actually’ or ‘got it?’

Step 3: Match their breathing

Breathe at the same time (in and out, in and out). Are they breathing deeply or shallowly?

Step 4: Match the size of information

If they speak in the big picture, they will be bored with details. Alternatively, if they love details, you will need to give them lots of information.?

Step 5: Match their common experience

Find out what you have in common - experiences, interests, background, beliefs and values, ideologies, and common associations.?

If you found this helpful and want to learn more about how we can incorporate the right strategies to develop your organisation’s culture and reach greater heights, here are 4 ways I can help:

• Take the FREE Organisational Culture Assessment.?This assessment tool?is designed?to evaluate?various aspects of your organisational culture?including?employee engagement, performance, and mental wellbeing. There are no right or wrong answers, just your opinion and assessment based on your experience and observation. It is for you to gain awareness of where your teams & organisation are?at,?and explore the best strategies to create the high performing culture you desire.?Click here to start the assessment.
• Book your FREE 30-Minute Leadership Strategy Session.?Every month, I open?up?my calendar for a handful of leaders to have a 1:1 session with me. On our call, we dive into actionable strategies?on how?to overcome the challenges that get in the way of your?team’s?self-leadership so you can cultivate, inspire and influence high performance within your teams.?There’s?only a limited number of spots, so?go?check if there are available spaces left —?Click?here
• Join our Self-Leadership Mastery Program and help your team learn?at their own pace.?The key to success, no matter what stage you are at in the leadership life cycle, is your own self-leadership. This program is designed for all – whether you are a long-term team leader or an emerging leader. If you have newly onboarded team leaders in your organisation who are new to self-leadership, this is the right course?to have.?Click here to find out more.
• Work with me privately.?If?you’d?like to work directly with?me and my team?to craft an individualised strategy for you so you can accelerate your?team’s?effectiveness...?just?send me a message with the word ‘ACCELERATE’... introduce yourself, your career or business and your #1 roadblock when it comes to leading your team or organisation, and?I’ll?get you all the details.

Cheers,

Linda