Retaining Your Best and Brightest Employees(4 min read)

In the Middle East employee retention is essential to the success of any organization and has always been an issue considering the wealth of opportunities and highly paid positions on offer in UAE. Hiring and training employees can be expensive, and excessive turnover can harm more than just the bottom line if candidates move on or don’t become an ideal fit over time.

As hiring managers, we know who these people are. They are dynamic and innovative, and when they leave an organization, the impact is so much more than just financial. These departures can damage everything from employee morale to client relationships.

The critical issue is an organization’s ability to retain its top employees — that small group of high performers that are a cut above the rest. These are those members of your workforce who deliver results and drive your organization forward.

At iTalent we recommend the following strategy tips for retaining your best and brightest employees.

Hiring the best

When it comes to retaining high quality people, organizations must strive to hire additional high performers in the first place. Your all-star employees will most certainly have difficulty staying engaged if they are the only ones with any good ideas and feel as if they are dragging the rest of the team along all the time. Your commitment to hiring top talent will not only reduce employee churn but yield better business results.

Your hiring teams should be actively seeking applicants that not only have the right skills and performance results, but the character and maturity that will add value to the organization long-term.

Is there Career Development at your Organisation

The best employees want to learn and grow.

If your staff feel like they can’t grow or progress within your organization, they will leave. It is vital that they can see a future with your company. To accomplish this requires businesses to invest time and resources into career development. Programs like tuition reimbursement or paid certifications or seminars allow personnel to learn and acquire new skills and gain confidence in their ability to do great work for your company.

Develop a Strong Company Culture

Employees want to subscribe to leadership models that provide them with a sense of purpose. Cultivate company values that encourage and embolden employees. Do your employees understand your purpose or vision? What are your company’s core values? These two simple questions are especially important to your organization. The key to company culture is values-driven.

Develop Strong Leaders

Be involved and know what is really happening.

We cannot overstate the importance of developing great leaders within your organization. Leaders and managers of people set the tone for your entire workforce as they work day-to-day with the broader employee base. They should be strong leaders, model your company’s vision and values and empower their employees to do their best work. This winning combination can be tough to find, so it should be the focus of HR and leadership teams to cultivate these characteristics in their managers through frequent coaching and mentorship. 

A Helathy Work-Life Balance

This is a top concern for your best employees.

If you have not already, it is time to start encouraging a better work-life balance among your staff. How you implement this is up to you, but some ideas include allowing your employees to work remotely, work schedule flexibility, offering more vacation days, maternity/paternity leave, exercise access, childcare services, company outings, etc.

Engage your employees when making decisions about which programs or benefits to provide them. Demonstrate that their health and happiness is a top priority.

Discover more about iTalent and our recruitment offerings for the UAE, Saudi Arabia and broader Middle Eastern markets.

italent was founded in 2012 in the United Arab Emirates born in a challenging market, one key reason for our success is we have unparalleled commitment and determination to deliver the highest levels of recruitment and executive search.

These fundamentals allowed us to build a reputation and gain the trust and respect of some of the biggest clients and most Senior candidates in the Region. Our team is all seasoned professionals, and with over 100 years of recruitment experience in our office, we are a key part of our clients’ Talent Acquisition Strategies.

You can contact us by using our contact form or call us on +971 (0)4 421 3490 or email us at info@italent-me.com and we will be happy to help.

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