Struggling to fill seats in your Organization

Struggling to fill seats in your organization?

I have an opinion for you. And it is not a popular one in leadership, but it is the cold hard truth that people need to hear.

If you want to keep people in your industry, you need to pay them. And pay them what they are worth to your business. As leaders we have got about as much traction as we can from pizza parties and half assed appreciation.

We can stand around kicking dirt talking about merit, leadership opportunities and continued development but it isn’t working. We like to think we are intelligent people so the answer shouldn’t be hard to figure out. But all I see are headlines about short staffing and people leaving and bosses scratching their heads and it makes me want to scream into the void.

If your company hasn’t raised their starting wage in 5 years, you are the problem. If you don’t give wage increases until people make move to leave, you are the problem.  If your business plan is based on giant CEO salaries and stock options and your staff are overwhelmed and burnt out, you are the problem. If the bar for your staff keeps moving and the wage doesn’t, you guessed it, you are the problem. If minimum wage has caught up to your stating wage, again, louder for those in the back, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!

We can appreciate people all we want but if we are not keeping up with the cost of living at the bare minimum, we will get left behind. Our best people will leave for the next opportunity that comes across their desks. And if they ever figure out that they are being gaslit out of promotions and into heaps of work, they will leave faster than you can blink.

And frankly, we deserve it.