Losing an employee is costly, writes Jon Christiansen. He says the reasons people quit are deeply rooted and complex. He offers eight common leadership mistakes that help explain the “why”:
- Setting inconsistent goals or expectations
- Having too many process constraints
- Wasting your resources
- Putting people in the wrong roles
- Assigning boring, or overly easy, tasks
- Failing to create a psychologically safe culture
- Creating a work environment that is too safe
- Leading with bias
Source: Harvard Business Review, September 10, 2019. Link.
Focusing on your own behaviors, what you can control, will do wonders to improve the performance and cohesiveness of your team. The better you manage, the more productive, innovative, satisfied, and most importantly, loyal your team will be.
INSIGHTS: Christiansen provides good guidance for everyone on a team since, at any time during a day, we all get a chance to lead by example.