Hiring: Grow your employees; build your organization

Grow and promote your employees. This has a much higher return than hiring new employees. Retaining high-performing employees begets more high performers. Keep your eyes on your top achievers; others are trying to recruit them. Do your employees see a pathway to success and betterment? People want goals and pathways to get ahead.

Related Best Practices

• Employee Retention
• Employee Training
• StrengthFinder Assessing Strengths of Leaders and Managers
• How to be a Mentor

Author

The author of this page is Terry Gardiner

Terry Gardiner is the founder and President of Silver Lining Seafoods and NorQuest Seafoods - a medium-size Alaska seafood processing company; and currently a Board member of the Anvil Corporation, an employee-owned company specializing in oil and gas engineering.

His co-operative experiences include member director of the Commercial Fishermen Co-operative association; creation of legislation for the Alaska Commercial Fishing and Agriculture Bank; and advisor to the US Dept of Health and Social Services for the state Health CO-OPs.

Terry served ten years as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives -several legislative committee chairmanships, Speaker of the House, Chairman of the Alaska Criminal Code Commission and board member on various state and federal boards and commissions.

His non-profit experiences include National Policy Director for the Small Business Majority in Washington DC; working with the Herndon Alliance and ForTerra.

Terry authored the leadership book, "Six-Word Lessons to Build Effective Leaders: 100 Lessons to Equip Your People to Create Winning Organizations".

For more check: Terry Gardiner Long bio