Facing a hiring crisis? Can’t get enough people? People leaving in the “great resignation”?
Those are symptoms of the common, real problem: your managers.
Gallup engagement surveys over the years point to managers as the biggest factor in hiring and retention success or failure. Other research shows half of managers don’t even want to manage people!
Business consultant Robert Michon says it well:
“I could walk into ANY market right now, do NOTHING to change your marketing, and quickly dominate solely by making a single move: DRAMATICALLY improve the people management area of your business.”
Businesses that pay attention to people management will succeed while others lose. Yet most businesses obsess over everything else but dramatically improving people management.
Why?
- It’s not an overnight fix.
- It may be not easily definable in real-time “metrics” that show I’m doing good work.
- It’s not fixable by a “silver bullet,” and least of all by traditional “training.”
- It often involves people systems like performance management and compensation as well.
And it takes answering the key question: “what do we believe about people?”
Ready to answer that question and get off the hiring hamster wheel? To dominate your market?
Don’t wait until it’s too late and let someone else figure this out while the domination door is open. Contact Mike Russell to explore proven methods to supercharge your people management.
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