With people leaving all around you during 'The Great Re-shuffle,' the temptation may be to emphasize recruitment to backfill the people who have been lost, but industry leaders would be well-advised to instead focus on retention, according to a blog authored by two HR and leadership-development experts.
'The best way to stabilize your business is to stem the tsunami of attrition and increase your retention,' Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer wrote in a blog for Harvard Business Review.
'In the frantic need to hire more people, the group we often forget to attend to are the folks who stay -- those showing up day-in and day-out shouldering the work that needs to get done.
'Think about what these people -- the ones who are here, working for and with you -- need now. The short answer is they need to be seen for who they are and what they are contributing. It's your job as the leader to make sure they're getting the recognition they deserve.'
