8 Tips to retain the best of your employees

In any business, big or small, one of the major tasks is to retain the best and most skilled employees. There’re a lot of things a person must keep in mind, when handling employees. For a long term stay in an organisation, any employee would have certain expectations from the organisation. Let us check the,

8 tips on how to retain the best of your employees

Gapeseed Consulting emphasizes on Employee Motivation, Engagement and Appreciation as the prime factor in retaining an organisational culture. Any culture is defined by the people, the employees and the teams. And to turn people into employees and then team, you need to create a culture and the following tips shall help:

• Reward, Recognition and Appreciation

If an employee works up to the standard, or does something out of the box for organizational benefit, he / she in return expects and deserves appreciation. This appreciation could be done in the form of rewards, like increments, trophies, bonus, monetary awards, additional perks. The employee should get due recognition for the hard work and dedication.

• Equitable treatment

Every employee, working on the same level, putting the same amount of effort deserves equal opportunities and equal treatment. For example, if in an organisation, ‘A’ is paid more than ‘B’, working on the same level because he’s connected to the senior, it will automatically pull B’s morale down. If there’s any discrimination against an employee, he would probably start finding other opportunities for growth.

• Proper Supervision

People leave managers and supervisors more often than they leave companies or jobs. The expectations for employees should be well defined to prevent confusions and agony in the future.
There should be clarity about expectations,earning potential,feedback about performance, scheduled meetings.

• Freedom of expression

Any employee wouldn’t want to leave an organization where he is free to express his thoughts and ideas, sometimes employees can come up with brilliant strategies and ideas and when they are left unheard or ignored, it lowers the employees morale. Their expression can prove to be very beneficial.

• Don’t threaten employees’ job or income

A threat to an employee’s job or income makes him feel as if he needs to search for a new platform to exploit his potential. Under any circumstances, this shouldn’t be done to the hardworking and dedicated employees.

• Clean out the dead weight

This sounds tough, but works for an organization’s benefit. There may be people in the organisation who hold other employees back in certain ways like negativity, unethical work, politics, gossips etc. Great people need to work with other great people. Do the hard work of removing those who slow everyone else and the organisation down.

• Friendly Competition

Employees can be put into friendly competition; this could be done by building teams and framing equal time spans for completion of certain tasks. These tasks could fetch the employees awards in form of monetary rewards, trophies etc. Such competitions, help employees work harder to increase their potential and opportunities.

• Above market Standard Rate

When some employees work beyond their boundaries, beyond their comfort for the benefit of the firm, they deserve more than the rate established by the market. This doesn’t imply that they need to be given sky high salaries, somewhere 20%-30% above the standard rate for the job so that they value doing it in the firm.

The above are 8 tips to retain the best of your employees, the same can be picked individually or one at a time. The idea is to make stronger and more approachable workplaces by creating an appropriate environment. You can connect with Gapeseed Consulting for processes or interim HR services through consultants to create HR Systems and align them with your organisational goals.

Feel free to reach us on, info@gapeseedconsulting.com or call +91-9599444639/+91-9599444630

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What Are The Things Great Managers Do Differently?

Have you tried to prove yourself as a good manager? Do you sometimes feel you need to get the best out of your position and those working with you?

Here are 7 tips on how you can exploit your subordinates’ and your own potential to the fullest.

• Discover your employees’ strengths It’s very important to know when people are clearly enjoying what they’re doing. Their talents, their values, their hard work, their interests, their distractions, everything plays an important role in assessing an employees strengths and what are they more likely to do better. This way, they could enjoy the work they do for the mutual benefit of the employee and the organisation.

• Offer guidance for their development All the work assigned to the employees should regularly be checked, and any guidance sought should be offered to them. The employees should be focused more on their strengths, and on developing them. It is the duty of the manager to check on it and offer help as and when required for development. If they had the opportunity to do what they do best each day, what would they be doing more of? What development support, on-the-job experiences, coaching or training, off the job trainings might they need to develop these strengths further? These are some important things you should keep in mind for their overall developments based on their strengths.

• Give strength-based feedback – You should look at how your employees are using their strengths for their duties. Tell them when you’re proud of good results that you get after they apply their strengths. Help them to understand when they’re overplaying a strength and how to dial it back in these moments. Encourage them to stop underplaying specific strengths when you see them hesitating or holding themselves back. Your feedbacks play a crucial role in their development.

• Set Clear expectations – The outcome of work, from every input should be pre planned and well defined. Every employee under you must know what is expected out of their work in a defined time period. If this is not clearly defined and agreed upon both ways, there will be lots of confusion when the deadline comes, the atmosphere in the work place would prove to be against benefits and you’ll find unhappy faces and blame games all over the place. This is why it’s very important to discuss in detail with the whole team and clarify wherever needed.

• Identify Uniqueness – Great Managers try to learn what is that one thing which is unique about every employee and work on it. They tend to use the unique factor for the benefit of the organisation.Everyone is good at something. It helps improve the over all productivity in work place with satisfaction. Such identification works wonders if done with each and every employee in any environment.

• Appreciate Subordinates – Some managers are quite reluctant to appreciate their subordinates because they think it will make them overconfident and complacent. But, this is opposed to what is the ideal way of treating and behaving with subordinates. For development and confidence boost, they need appreciation, recognition and appraisal from time to time when they do work that demands these. Everybody likes to get appreciated for the things that they do.Excellence needs praise. Great Managers never make it too late to appreciate.

• Care about subordinates – If you are a manager, you need to take care of people you’re managing. Sometimes, your employees might have certain personal problems coming in the way of organizational duties, you need to care for them, and understand the circumstances through which they are going. They might need an extra leave, they might need your inspirational and motivational words when they are morally down, they might need a boost when things are not going on well and so on.If you prove to be a good manager in this respect, so will they turn out to be good employees.

For more information on feel free to reach us on, info@gapeseedconsulting.com or call +91-9599444639/+91-9599444630

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Hiring the right recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider is a major organizational decision, one that will have a direct impact on your organization’s talent. If you’re not sure exactly how to hire the right Recruitment Process Outsourcing provider, you’re not alone. The other day we headed to a mall just to grab some quick bite on our way back from a meeting.

Our ‘Happy Hour’ moment was soon put to an end after my teammate took the first bite of his burger. Apparently he is allergic to mayonnaise and he specifically asked to do away with it while ordering. When he went to complaint about it, the boy who took his order bluntly replied that they can never make these kinds of mistakes. Anybody would get furious to such comment and my teammate wasn’t any different. After much argument, the manager came forward to apologize for the whole situation and made the boy do the same. Later we learnt that the boy has joined only a couple of weeks back and he has made such mistakes for over a couple of times. Now post this incident, I don’t know whether the boy was fired but the outlet definitely lost two of his customers – me and my team member.

There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing an RPO provider. Zeroing down to the right one is a good challenge. In my years of involvement in the RPO industry, we have been able to identify some key considerations companies should take when hiring an RPO.

They Do the Homework, Customize & Train

A reputed brand definitely needs the right provider who can assess the skills of the employee, train them accordingly and then make the right placement. If they keep hiring people who don’t fit the requirement, the outcome could be worst for any given brand or organisation. So picking up the right RPO is as important as getting the right people to work for your business.

You need to ascertain that the agency is not offering existing packages, they are doing the homework to understand your business and the consumer insights before giving an RPO proposal for your business.

Good packages come at a good price

Although price is a significant factor in hiring an RPO provider, it definitely shouldn’t be a deterrent. The RPO experience is based on improving any current hiring weaknesses in the company while playing to the company’s strengths. The price is simply what you pay in order for you to ultimately see greater returns when all is said and done. What you should consider is how much more effective and efficient an RPO will make your hiring process. When an RPO provider brings the proper resources and experience to bear on your recruiting process, you should expect overall improvement and a significant return on your investment.

Not just a provider, work like partners

The provider can’t just work alone. The relation between your company and the provider must be like partners. Though you may not get an opportunity to get actively involved in the recruitment but you must follow up regularly. The system of the provider should be flexible enough so that it lets you sit with their team to discuss the situation, work out a schedule and do regular reporting and reviews. You can’t leave outsourcing firms hanging; you must make sure you are there with them like partners.

Security check for a secured process

Since you will be sharing confidential business information with the provider, checking on security is something that you must foremost find out. Ask for a detailed description of how they have protected their facility from outside intrusion; ask if they have a recovery plan in case of a security breach. Find out about the firewall and other security measures taken by the provider. Also ensure if the provider’s data center is staffed with qualified, experienced and committed resources.

Specific services for specific needs

You need to asses if the RPO provider is simply trying to sell you their services by over promising or if they are genuinely committed to tailoring their services to meet your unique needs. The best way to evaluate a prospective service provider is to examine their service track record from multiple perspectives. You can get in touch with the provider’s existing customers if their needs were accommodated. Before bringing them on board, check if they demonstrate a willingness to clarify your needs and map those onto their service offerings.

Know about customer satisfaction directly from customers

You can always request the service provider to provide you with their customer list either former or existing. After receiving the contacts, you can speak to those customers who have a similar industry profile/business needs as yours. Request them for detailed and honest feedback about the provider’s strengths and weaknesses. Find out how satisfied they were with the provider’s service levels and systems management expertise. If everything falls in place as you expected, you can take you decision easily.

Structure out the infrastructure

In order to find out how reliable a provider is, get information about their infrastructure, technology partners, internet providers, data centre etc. Even making an on–site visit can give you confidence in the provider’s management expertise and physical infrastructure. You can also ask details about the provider’s quality assurance methodologies, procedures and processes in order to find how scale able they are.

Hope this post will help you find the right RPO provider for your firm. The other way to find the right one is to get in touch with us. We at Gapeseed, not only fit well into the above mentioned considerations but we keep working on our skills to keep pace with the growing demand. So talk and walk with us before hiring us and we are sure you wouldn’t have to look anywhere else.

For more information on Recruitment Process Outsourcing, feel free to reach us on, info@gapeseedconsulting.com or call +91-9599444639/+91-9599444630

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