How ‘sticky’ is your organization?
It’s not enough to get good people through the door: the crucial question is how long they’ll stay. When you lose hard-to-replace colleagues to competitors, self-employment, retirement or ‘a better life’, your business can quickly come unstuck.
As a leader, it’s your job to retain and motivate the people with the skills, expertise and commitment your business needs to win. So how do you create a ‘sticky’ organization that makes your most valued employees want to stay?
You give them freedom.
Helen Beedham unpacks this paradox in this insightful guide for CEOs, COOs, CPOs and any leader who wants to fuel growth and reduce risk and costs by retaining talented people. She shows how businesses that enjoy stellar rates of retention have freedom in their DNA and how you can develop this low-risk, win-win approach too.
Discover:
- The anti-freedom forces at work that weaken your glue.
- The four freedoms that your organization should be offering.
- How to measure your performance on the Freedom Index.
Table of Content
Introduction
Part I – Sticky organizations
Chapter 1 – People glue
Chapter 2 – Why people stay
Chapter 3 – Why retention matters
Part II – Freedom at work
Chapter 4 – The freedom evolution
Chapter 5 – Freedom unpicked
Chapter 6 – Anti-freedom forces
Part III – The four freedoms
Chapter 7 – Autonomy
Chapter 8 – Growth
Chapter 9 – Self-expression
Chapter 10 – Meaningful work
Part IV – Operationalising freedom
Chapter 11 – Freedom framework.
Chapter 12 – Leading freedom.
Chapter 13 – Managers as freedom coaches
Chapter 14 – Overstaying
Chapter 15 – When freedom fails
Conclusion: Taking freedom forward
Appendix: Q&A
About the author
Helen Beedham is an organizational expert, speaker, and host of The Business of Being Brilliant podcast. Her first book The Future of Time: How ‘re-working’ time can help you boost productivity, diversity and wellbeing was named People, Culture & Management Book of the Year at the Business Book Awards, and she regularly comments on the future of work in national, business and HR press.
