2. They are not being paid enough for what they carry out on compared to their actual market value.
3. Their actual work is not valued by the “person in charge” – this could be through reward, recognition, feedback, discussion, etc.
4. Mobbed
5. etc
I believe that a majority of people leave a team, a leader/manager or a company because they no longer see the opportunity to grow. In other words advance their career. If you have someone that has been in their role for 3+ years and executes on it fairly well and suddenly this person decides to leave the company because they have been offered a job with similar circumstances as they are currently in, the only difference in this case is they are more likely to take the job because they believe that they have opportunity elsewhere to grow and challenge themselves. I don’t care how charismatic of a leader you are at that point. If your employee retention program consists of brainwashing people into believing that the need to stay another 5 years in their role because you are the greatest leader in the world, than we might as well head back into the 1930’s, no?
I love seeing people develop and grow. Now while we are all responsible for our own growth, our leaders and/or managers do have an amount of impact on this. When I take a look at my corporate environment, I have seen many people leave within the past months for opportunities elsewhere. Do I take this as a sign of bad leadership or management on my behalf. Maybe in one or two instances, but on the majority scale I would say no, and I have never received feedback as such.
In the article, originally written by Greg Savage he claims;
Mostly, people don’t change jobs solely for money. They almost never resign on a whim or in a fit of anger. They joined your company because they believed it right for them, and they actually want it to be right. Something, at some point, makes it wrong. And if you really take the time to dig into their real reasons for leaving — and you should — you will find that it’s not “the company” they blame. It’s not the location, or the team, or the database or the air-conditioning.
It’s the leadership!
I do not fully disagree, but even leadership can only support opportunity to a limited extent. The factors that fall into this area include business opportunity and business health, organizational structure and costs, required skill sets of employees and so forth. Leaders may be able to influence the vision and perspectives of where we are going and what needs to be done and professionals will typically follow suit, but we are not the military. We do not simply carry out orders because our hierarchical structure commands us too. If an organization downsizes for any variety of reasons and certain jobs are not being filled, than the matter of fact is that people are leaving because they do not see that opportunity for growth. The simple word is PERSPECTIVE.
I don’t claim to be an expert on the subject, but I do believe that we all, at some point leave our companies with our leaders playing a minimal role. What are your thoughts on the topic? Do you leave the company, your boss, your team, your leaders? Do you leave for a better paycheck, benefits and other conveniences? Let me know…