Individuality: Putting employees at the center

Let’s Talk Individuality – Maria Amato

Most employees when they're moving from one organization to another are going to get some kind of a premium—they're going to be paid a little more in their new organization.

But if they're moving to an organization that doesn't have a strong reputation as a place to work, that organization needs to pay considerably more to bring new talent on board. Not only do you see it in terms of the amount that you have to pay for talent, but also, the relationship that you have with that talent suffers if you’re not paying attention to things like engagement and commitment.

Financial implications for strong employee relations

What we’ve seen is that when organizations don't have a strong relationship with employees, don't have commitment from employees and don't have engagement, where employees don't feel enabled to really succeed, it impacts organizations in both their top and bottom line growth.

There are real financial implications for organizations not getting employee relations right.

Be an employee centric organization

It's not enough to just care and sort of hope that by caring that's going to fix everything. There are some additional things that you need to think about in order to be a truly employee centric organization.

Know your employees

You need to really know your employees - deeply.

We need to bring the same level of rigor to understanding our employees, understanding what they're looking for by using high powered analytics to really get beneath the surface and understand what employees are looking for.

We really need to think about how we can organize ourselves, our own internal functions, around what employees need rather than our own functions that may be convenient for us.