How to Hire, Admire, Develop and Retain Talents with Love

You may wonder: I am a professional manager, what has love got to do with my work?

As we know, a manager is only good if he can get good people to work for him and get good people to stay. Often companies are caught in a vicious circle: they need to hire people quickly to replace the loss of good people. Once people come in, they are given everything (money, power, fame, position, responsibility and stress) except one thing: love. As a result, good people leave them fast and they are soon caught in busy trend: hiring.
Of course you could say that everyone in your industry is facing the same problem, this country has labour shortage, right? It is not your fault as your company's salary is already very competitive. Being a responsible manager, you know you have to do something to stop this. Now there is a new strategy to do this: using Love. Because if you don't love them, you'll lose them.

To many people, love is a dirty word. To us at AsiaTrainers, love can be used professionally in your business in 7 ways, including sales and marketing. (Click here for this article). Answer the following 8 questions, if you find it easy to tick 'yes', you need to change your management methods now.

Do you assume that employees will tell you voluntarily what they want from their work?
Take for granted that your employees know that you respect them, and therefore you don't need to show it?
Expect to leave their personal lives at the door and only concern with your business?
Feel that you don't have time to coach and mentor people?
Avoid giving negative or creative feedback to your employees?
Maintain that employee retention and leadership are not critical skills and they will stay no matter what you do?
Believe that most people only use 10% of their brain, and your people are no exception? (click here for answer to this question)
The last time you attended a management training was at least 3 years ago, and now you think that you can go the Library to get yourself updated on the latest management strategies?

By Andy Ng of Asia Trainers. The next How to Be a Better Manager course answers 79% of the above issues, plus giving you useful strategies on people management, leadership, teambuilding and communication. Related articles:

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