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Become an Employer of Choice
Attracting and Retaining Staff
Mining booms, generational change and the highly educated workforce place great pressures on businesses in attracting and retaining the right people and skills to their organizations. The solution is not about remuneration, it’s about becoming an "Employer of Choice".
An Employer of Choice is an organisation that outperforms its competitors in attracting, developing and retaining talent through innovative human resource management initiatives. For enlightened businesses, the move towards becoming an Employer of Choice involves more than just creating an attractive place to work. It's an integral part of their corporate strategy that can result in a higher level of performance and productivity in the workplace, greater stability, stronger customer loyalty, high employee satisfaction and loyalty and ultimately, higher profits.
The key question is HOW?
STEP 1 - Becoming an Employer of Choice
1. Commit to be the Employer of Choice in the industries that you serve.
Decide now to invest the resources that you will save from implementing the solutions.
Make "Being an Employer of Choice" a priority.
2. Implement effective human resource systems and processes in your business. NOW!
We assist you to implement those systems and processes that engage and empower your people.
Effective Selection
- Set the core values and behaviours that you expect in your employees.
- Develop recruiting standards based around those values and behaviours.
- Develop recruiting processes that ensure that you bring people into your business who reflect those core values.
Effective Induction
Develop induction processes that ensure new staff understand your business, your expectations of them and that they feel a part of your team.
Effective Performance Management
Invest in an effective Performance Management System and ensure that people are clear about what is expected. Link your expectations to the goals in your business plan. This makes your business vision more relevant to your people and helps them understand why it is important and keeps everyone accountable to those goals.
Effective Exit Procedures
Constructive feedback from exit interviews can clearly define any problems that you face in attracting and retaining the right people. Defining the issues is the first step to solving those problems. Develop and prioritise solutions that work for your business. Expect to persist. This is not a one-time fix.
3. Implement effective communications within your business
Effective communications across your business fosters staff engagement and keeps your business focused on managing your human capital.
4. Create career paths for your teams that drive business performance – Build for Succession
- Accurately assess the skill needs in your business
- Assess the skill needs of individuals within your business.
- Match the needs of the business and the skill needs of your staff to optimise training and mentoring programs.
- Implement training and mentoring programs to develop the right skills in your staff and review them regularly so that they remain effective.
- In this way career progression is formalised for your staff.This develops your people and keeps them engaged in your business. It also builds succession throughout your business.
5. Flexible Salary Packaging
To attract and retain key people, rewards systems need to be flexible and adaptive to the changing demands of current and prospective employees. However, it’s not just about money. People today want more than that from their employer. They want:
- Up to date tools – Computers, Software, Machinery, Hand Tools,
- Modern facilities,
- Good Housekeeping – cleanliness and organisation makes a real difference.
- Safe Work Practices,
- Comfortable Work Environment and
- Décor.
These areas managed well will save you money in the long run and will help you attract and retain the right people for your business.
STEP 2 - Market your Business to Prospective Employees
1. Employee Value Proposition
Build an Employee Value Proposition for your business that outlines all of the elements that make your business an Employer of Choice.
2. Equip your managers with the tools to articulate your Employee Value Proposition to prospective employees.
STEP 3 – Effective Leadership
Every organisation has a number leadership levels within it.
We help you define those leadership levels in your business.
- Every leadership level has different needs in terms of skills, knowledge, work values and how time is applied.
We define skills, work values and time applications for each leadership level.
- How equipped are your leaders, managers and supervisors to lead and manage their teams?
We build assessment tools to identify training and mentoring needs and opportunities within your leadership team.
We assess your current leaders and develop plans that make them more effective in their current roles
- How equipped is your business to transition staff from one leadership level to the next?
- How equipped are your staff to progress to the next leadership level?
We build assessment tools to identify the future leaders in your business.
We assess these future leaders and develop programs to train and mentor them for their next promotion
- Effective Leadership – Empowering your leaders to engage your teams.
While this might all sound a bit daunting, it doesn't have to be. The keys to successful implementation are to do it in stages over a period of time and to get help where you need it. We provide professional advice and practical assistance to ensure that you become an “Employer of Choice”.
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