It’s past midnight and as you do, non stop scrolling on social feeds or TikTok until that sweet sense of sleep hits. For me, the past hour or so I’ve seen at least 3-4 videos on leadership and how employees don’t leave companies but leave bad leaders. It got me to thinking what a load of crap! So now I can’t sleep and I’m going to rant about my thoughts for a bit before snoozing off.
So technically, I don’t disagree that bad leadership is a big cause for resignation, but there are many others and blaming leaders at every opportunity is just a fully misled argument.
People leave for opportunities, to explore, to try life at something else and for growth. If you are after career profession or more money leaving a company is one of the easiest ways for a bigger role, a bigger company, a more “luxurious” company or simply for a bigger paycheck.
Now you may say well that falls on leadership for not increasing wages or promoting or putting a plan fin place for “transfers” but it’s not always at the leaders foot.
Positions are limited in every organization so promotions can’t just happen all the time especially when those positions are filled, transfers? Too many parties involved and different salaries across the board that are hard to reach and plenty of owners or big shot leaders who want to decrease payroll as opposed to value team members. So moving from a large organization to a smaller or one that makes less revenue well you guessed it right lower salaries budgets.
I’ve always believed in honesty when people leave the organization, I ask their motif and their thinking for the new role challenge, many times I fully agree with them, it’s an incredible opportunity for them, an amazing company, a great position and sometimes a salary that I couldn’t match.
For others I’ve given honest feedback as to why I didn’t think the move would be correct due to a number of reasons I’ve found but I’ve always been honest and never taken a resignation personally.
After my talks with them, many have also retracted in their resignation but genuine care for you team is about being honest, not political, not dismissive or manipulative.
With many I’ve remained in contact with over the years, and many thriving and others who have come back to the organization or made them realize what they wanted to do.
All in all, turnover is common and you have to learn to embrace that people will leave and how you treat them during that moment of resignation sticks with them forever, so instead of getting angry, frustrated or thinking how much a replacement is going to cost you treat them with respect, be honest, share your opinions and most importantly treat them as human beings not just a number.
Rant done! Good night!