Ten Tips to Manage Your Employees' Life Cycle

1. Live Your Mission - Create a mission statement for your business that includes your employee philosophy. Model the mission throughout the organization and have each manager and employee create their own mission statements linked to the organization's mission to ensure consistency and commitment.
   
   
2. Be A Magnet For New Employees - Evaluate your organization's external image. Present an authentic image to the public about who your organization is and what it can do for prospective employees. Market your magnetic features to attract new, qualified people to you.
   
   
3. Hire the Best by having the best hiring practices. Train every person who plays a role in interviewing and selection on how to hire smart. From setting clear hiring criteria to effective interviewing and thorough background checking - make sure your efforts represent the excellence in your organization.
   
   
4. Roll Out the Red Carpet when you extend offers to new candidates so they'll select you as their first choice employer. And make their orientation to the organization one that truly welcomes them and prepares them for success.
   
   
5. Train Your New Employees on everything they need to know to perform their job to their highest level. Fill their information and skills gaps promptly and completely. Train them using methods that work for them - so they will work for you.
   
   
6. Give Feedback that Matters to them and to you. Let each new employee know that your management style includes giving specific, timely, regular, two-way, job-related feedback. Then create a workplace where there are no surprises - where each employee knows what's expected and how they're performing in light of the expectations.
   
   
7. Reward and Recognize Your Employees consistently on their job performance. Be generous with thank-you's. Share employee accomplishments with other employees. Creative fun recognition activities. Empower your employees to initiate their own reward and recognition activities to add spark to the workplace.
   
   
8. Challenge Your High-Performing Employees with more responsibility, more exciting projects, more training, more involvement, leadership, autonomy, etc. Without the right challenges, your employees will start to look elsewhere. So set them up to succeed and create retention-creating opportunities.
   
   
9. Transition - Be prepared for whenever your employees leave and treat them with respect. Thank them for their contribution. Help them transition out smoothly. Keep an open door for their return. Ask them to be an advocate for referring other employees into your organization. Be sure their last memory of you is positive.
   
   
10. Be A Magnet For Your Current Employees - Develop a retention strategy that's linked with your employee mission statement so every employee knows their value and worth to the organization. Focus on internal attraction strategies to keep your best employees from the temptations of other employers. Remember that every action you take toward your employees either brings them closer to you or closer to your employment competition.

Arlene Vernon, PHR, is a professional speaker, consultant and author on maximizing the human resources in your managers and your people. For more information on how HRx can help you achieve the results your organization seeks, contact Arlene today at HRx, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN 55344, 952-996-0975, www.HRxcellence.com.

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