To continue from last week's discussion on how to make your business attract great people, and retain them for as long as possible, we are now going to focus on a key internal area that can really help achieve that, as well as improve your business from within. That is developing your people, and ensuring you have supportive and accessible career paths and development plans in place. Plans which help you remove bias and ensure that your internal promotion can be celebrated rather than ridiculed, can be believed in and seen to be positive and the right fit, rather than causing distrust and disengagement. In order to both retain your great people, and help them grow with the business you need more than an incentive scheme and bonuses…..so much more!. I will also focus more on how to make sure Promotions are fair and transparent, and based on performance. Whilst not getting caught up in the toxic trap of being based on connections. This is vital to get right, otherwise mistrust will take over and your business culture will lose its edge. 

Let's stop this from happening and develop promotions, rewards, and a recognition structure that helps value all of your people, and makes them proud to be part of your business! One that can give back to both the business bottom line and the employee engagement levels. In reality this is not a hard or onerous task, but one that you must be aware needs to be achieved, and once done it will take on a life of its own that will help drive your culture and engage your people.