Why Employees Leave and How to Retain Your Team Members

This is why employees leave an organisation and what business owners should do to retain their team members.

In my previous post, I explained how you can build a strong team for your agency business. I hope you guys found my suggestion helpful and will implement them while building your team.

Moving forward, one problem I always hear from digital businesses is they are not able to retain their team members. As soon as they hire new team members, the previously hired ones leave them. It means at any given point in time; the business will not have a solid team.

So, in today’s post, I will share my experience with retaining team members and will also provide a few suggestions for retaining team members. Let’s start.

As I have written in my previous posts, I started building teams back in 2018, and till today I hire all the new team members for my digital media business Yorker Media.

As my team has less than 20 people, I personally work with everyone. I can proudly say that in the last 12 months, none of our team members has left us.

In the process of hiring and working with my team, I have realized professionals usually don’t leave a team for slightly lower pay. It is a toxic and complicated work culture that forces an individual to leave a team. Most professionals these days prefer respect, healthy work culture and simplicity.

Besides running my business, I have worked as a freelancer with several businesses. What I have personally experienced is that most businesses have a complicated process right from hiring, communication with seniors, work processes, payments, etc.

Whenever I have felt complications working with a business, I had to leave them even when their pay was best in the industry.

After realising these complications myself, I make sure my team members don’t face any such complications at any stage.

I have hired dozens of team members, and I have never asked anyone for an Interview. I mostly reach out to prospect team members, have a conversation with them, and if I am satisfied, they are part of the team.

For communication, I use WhatsApp. I have tried business communication platforms like Slack, but I feel it makes things way too complicated.

WhatsApp gives a personal touch, and when I am talking to my team members, I feel I am talking with my friends or family members. Similarly, for any other task I don’t prefer using any third-party platform.

When it comes to payments, I make sure every single payment gets processed on the promised day with 100% accuracy. None of the team members has to ever ask about a single payment, such smooth the process is.

The overall goal is to keep everything as simple as possible.

So, if you are not able to retain team members, what I will suggest is to keep things as simple as possible. The less complicated the work culture is, the more your team members will enjoy working. The work should feel fun, not some sort of headache.

If someone can’t be a good employer, how can they even think about becoming a successful entrepreneur?

On that note, I am ending this post. What do you guys think?

Thanks for reading. Have a great day!