40. How to Retain Great People in Hard Times (Part 3)

You found the ‘perfect person’, you got them trained up, you’ve taken a step back off the tools and then they drop the bombshell that they want to finish up. 

Over the last two weeks we’ve gone through how to design a ground crew that actually supports your business goals and how to find the right people … so this week we’re talking about how to keep them and how to become a place where people actually want to work.

And it’s not just paying them more money. 

If you haven’t listened yet you can find Part One here on Apple and Spotify and Part Two here on Apple and Spotify

Aside from being frustrating, there is an actual cost to losing employees, and it’s not just financial. 

When you have to recruit and retrain there’s lost billable time, lost productivity and could even be reputational damage.

So we’re not just going to teach you today how to build a company that people never want to leave but how to link the physical design of your team, your recruitment process and this final piece all together so that you bring the right people in from day one. 

In this episode you’ll learn:

🔨 Who you should ACTUALLY let go of in your business 

🔨 Why paying people more isn’t the answer 

🔨 4 Strategies that are MORE effective to get people to stay than paying them more money

🔨 The secret to holding GOOD people in the long term 

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