Establish a Culture of Opportunity to Become an Employer of Choice

What is the best way to keep your best-performing employees? Besides the obvious response of increasing pay, this article suggests that employers create a culture of opportunity ─an environment that drives workers to assertively seek increased responsibility and promotion.

The article suggests that this can be accomplished when managers/leaders make and regularly renew a personal commitment to several practices which include:

• Delegation
• Encouragement to Lead Change
• Listening
• Speaking with Respect
• Avoiding Micro-Management
• Training
• Public Celebration of Success
• Constructive Criticism in Private
• Internal Promotion

Establishing a culture of opportunity sends a signal to employees that you are truly invested in their career advancement. It provides workers with a realistic hope for a financially stable future and a vision of what might be possible. It also dramatically improves your ability to attract, retain and grow talent in a rapidly changing world.

This second article suggests five ways organizations and leaders can build a culture of opportunity. The article concludes by stating that the suggested steps aren’t all easy (nor done in a day), but they’re necessary.” Businesses, organizations, libraries, and “leadership will only succeed by centering our approach on providing it [a culture of opportunity].” 

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