6 Steps to an Ideal Employee Experience

Employee Experience (EX), are you putting your employees first? Do your employees thrive in your culture and choose to stay there?

TIP of the week, 6 Steps to an Ideal Employee Experience, comes from Kathleen Quinn Votaw, Founder, and CEO of TalenTrust and KQV Speaks.

Businesses are at risk of failing if they don’t put their employees first. You need a community that has employees wanting to stay. Also, a supportive HR team helps to keep things aligned with your vision, and together this can provide your business with a competitive advantage in recruiting and retaining employees.

Votaw notes that “Because EX has a direct and powerful impact on your ability to recruit and retain talent, it’s realistically the only competitive edge your company has.”

EX, realistically the only competitive edge your company has.

Votaw lists some of the most common Leadership failures. But not wanting to dwell on the past, she provides her six critical steps to guide you into crafting your ideal EX strategy from attraction to attrition.

SIX Critical Steps

1. Listen first. Then Act.

2: Put your people first, above everything else

3: Hire the right people at every level.

4: Put People in the right roles.

5: Think coach, not boss.

6: Don’t try for perfection.

She cautions CEOs about the dangers of holding onto past practices and policies. Stating that “they may feel comfortable and safe but they are a path to failure”.

Today’s workforce is seeking a more kinder, gentler, more flexible, human-centric work experiences.

A good read, 6 Steps to an Ideal Employee Experience, I highly recommend it to CEOs to share with their direct reports.

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