Leadership Institute
Motivating and Retaining Talent
Recommended Solution for: Motivating and Retaining Talent
As competition and globalization impact the need for qualified people, the ability to attract and retain talent is increasingly challenging. So how do leaders develop, motivate, and retain the people resources they have? Leaders need to:
- Proactively assess retention risk of top talent and take action to prevent turnover.
- Create an environment in which employees perform at higher levels.
- Identify the development needs of employees and guide them to take charge of their own development.
- Engage employees and motivate them to achieve organizational and personal goals.
- Create and maintain a high trust environment
- Make work meaningful and connected to organizational goals.
Course Recommendations
These courses help leaders develop, motivate, and retain employees.
* Essentials of Leadership is the prerequisite course for most leadership courses.
- Building an Environment of Trust -- Teaches leaders to recognize
behaviors that lead to distrust and to understand the human impact of a
non-trusting environment.
- Adaptive Leadership -- Teaches leaders how to tailor their approaches based on team members’ motivations, personality styles, the organizational environment, and the situation. This is an advanced interpersonal skills course. It is highly recommended that several other interpersonal skills courses from DDI be taken prior to this one.
- Motivating Others -- Teaches leaders how to proactively create an environment in which people are highly motivated to perform.
- Developing Others -- Helps leaders understand the critical role they play in developing organizational talent, and provides a process for them to follow in doing so. (No prerequisite course required)
- Retaining Talent -- Helps leaders understand their critical role in retaining organizational talent, and creating an environment in which people feel valued and satisfied in their job.
- Coaching for Success -- Teaches proactive coaching skills that leaders need to help people take on new tasks or solve problems.
Supplemental Courses and Development Tools
- OPAL® (Online Performance and Learning) -- Provides Internet reinforcement and just-in-time coaching.
Rationale
Investment in employee talent and a belief in the value of employee input support
the theory behind high-performance work practices. Employees are most valuable when they are highly skilled and capable of making effective decisions. In a high-performance work setting, employees grow, develop, and learn from job experiences. Employee development increases the value of the organization’s workforce and enriches work life because it presents new challenges and provides task variety.
The courses listed above teach leaders how to plan for and guide employee development. They also help leaders create a motivating environment of trust and growth that engages employees to pursue organizational goals.