Team Building to Keep the High Performering Employees when it matters the most!
I’m very cognizant of the fact that the follow post sounds blatently self serving as a team building activities provider, that said the facts are clear. When times are tough you need your top performing employees more than ever. It can be a tough decision to make an investment in outside services when you are trying to trim all your costs but placing those investmetns in your top performing employees and how they FEEL about where they work has never been a better investment.
A recent study High Performers Ready to Quit conducted by Leadership IQ shows that 47% of high performers are actively looking for other jobs and conversly only 18% of low performers are looking. During times of layoffs its important to recognize that often people that survive the layoffs are asked to do more and make even more of a commitment to the company.
Commitment is an emotional connection to the company, feeding that emotional connection by acknowledging that you need to manage how people feel about where they work and that you are interetested in them enjoying that work. Team building can deliver those benefits and more. Even if you don’t make the external investment make sure you take the time to conduct some internal team building activities, showing you care goes a long way to keeping those high performers performing for you instead of someone else.
Lynn
Team Enthusiast
