Easily Retain Your Best Team With This One Action 🚀

Retention = Recruiting Insurance. I have hired over 1k people in 20 years and this one action has saved me more money, time, and frustration than anything else in my business.

👉 Stat: 63% of workers who quit their jobs said they didn't see a future at their current place of employment. Pew Research Center.

As a leader, it is our job to build that future. Most business owners don't realize the number one role of the CEO or founder is visionary. So here is the one thing that has had the most dramatic impact on my business as it relates to people.

It is also the reason that my current team has been with me in two other companies.

👉The Rockstar Vision Meeting 🚀

Purpose: to create a win-win vision of the future between the employee and the company .

Product: an employee who knows more of what they want out of life and how your company is going to help them achieve it

Your Role:

1. To serve as a steward between the employee and the company, making sure both people are clear and win.

2. The visionary that helps builds a powerful future.

3. A coach to help the team member discover what they want out of life.

👉Steps

Scheduled time with the key employee off-site. This can be at lunch, a dinner, or a local park. It is vital to change the environment to allow for creativity, connection, and ultimately the coaching that is required.
Express gratitude for the employee, both in terms of statistics and in terms of cultural contribution.
Communicate that they are being brought into the inner circle of your vision planning for the company because you see a company that has a future with them in it.
Ask them what they want out of their future, and get ready for the fact that most people have no idea.
Coach them into identifying what it is they want out of life. This can be done through the "Be, Do, Have" framework (see document).
Continue to develop their future with them until you find a connection between Where the company is going and where they now clearly see where they want to go
Document the meeting and review on a bi-annual basis

👉 The Results

1.These meetings have helped uncover many individuals who were planning to leave and allowed me to fix those issues before they surprised me with the resignation.

2. it has helped me identify early when an employee will no longer be a fit, and allows me to serve them by doing things such as starting their own business

3.It has helped me retain amazing talent

4. This shapes the vision and direction of my company, building my business around who, not how

In order to really help you, I've leveraged Claude to help me create a document & worksheet that you can use with your teams to help you grow, scale, and sell your business using your best people.

Why?

Because I love all you crazy lunatics...who dare to be brave enough to start a business. YOU are what make this world a better place. 🌍

❓My expertise in business is everything around people (recruit, train& retain), culture, and turning teams into work families. What topics would you guys like me to post on? I'm happy to share everything I've built, from policies and procedures down to techniques on how to fire in a way that makes people quit instead.

Written from the heart, no AI 🤍

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