Yours Faithfully: 13 Secret Reasons Your Employees Resign Within Six Months

With rigorous assessments and interviews, you can hire the best employees, but you need a different approach to retain your promising employees and high performers, or you may lose them to a happy competitor within six months. When an employee resigns, it is not only a loss to your business because time and resources have been spent in recruitment, onboarding and training; you are also losing revenues in the process of finding a worthy replacement. If only you could discern the warning signals, you would be amazed that some of your smiling employees have not walked out of your door yet, but they have mentally checked out. Some are actively hunting for new opportunities, while others plan to make a change in the next six months.

Gone are the days when employers yelled at their employees. “If you cannot do it, resign! So many people are looking for jobs out there.” Recent times have seen a tidal wave of resignations. The numbers are alarming, and this trend is likely not over. Until employers stop using the soldier-go-soldier-come approach for employees, they may never be able to build a sustainable business. Until you have stable employees, you cannot say you have a business. Kingsley has had over a decade of experience working with several employers across various organizations, some of which he has shared in this book extensively. His practical strategies have helped many business owners to build stable employees and profitable businesses.