Who wants to stay?

# Chapter 242

Train your people so that they can leave – treat them so well they want to stay. - Masterminds

This works in business and in most any other organization as well. There is competition for great talent in every area, in the non-profit world, in the church world, in education, in Government, in the arts, you name it. But training is in short supply all across the board in my limited experience. Training seems to be the minimum required to have people barely do their jobs. The real training I received was taken at my own initiative and often at my own expense. In fact when I received my doctorate, my org wasn’t even interested. Not interested in using it, utilizing it, leveraging it, and certainly not interesting in learning from the study that took four years and covered six countries and directly related to the work they were doing!! Training me to the point that I could leave? Well that is what happened, but again the training was on me, after the basic requirements were met. I will say this for them though, if they decided you needed a piece of training, they put the parts into play so that you could get the training. Only it happen far too rarely.

But at the end of the day, it is not the training if like us you were given the freedom to pursue your own training, its the second part of the equation - treat them so well they want to stay. This is the mechanism that orgs fail at over and over. No matter how much training we get or don’t, in the end, we will leave because they don’t treat us well, or don’t value you, or don’t pay enough for the demands of the job, or the command structure is not user friendly. So much room for improvement on these two fronts!