This episode of Activate Your Introvert features a discussion is with Paul Harris, who helps farmers to build harmonious high-performance teams. It seems that leaders in agriculture have the same misunderstandings as many others.
Here are number of relevant articles, which I hope you find interesting.
I need new staff to stay longer
I need new staff to stay longer and be useful more quickly.
New staff who leave before, or just after they’ve become proficient is expensive and very “frustrating”. They’re either leaving because it’s the wrong job for them (bad recruitment), they’re the wrong people for you (bad recruitment), or because they’ve not been looked after and trained well enough (onboarding).
If you’re looking to keep them longer, make your onboarding process more systematic, more suitable for introverts, and more obvious to all staff (so they all see development opportunities).
Creating a programme (checklist of subjects, dates and people) allows you to systemise your induction programme, so you don’t do all the work and your new starters get a consistent, high quality, start to their career with you. That will make them more likely to stay for longer and more productive more quickly.
Help introverts (and everybody else) find their feet in the company more quickly.
Introversion and hybrid working
Hybrid working: The debate goes on about whether it works, or not. Is anybody asking, how to design it for introverts and extroverts? Lorna Helps is the guest in this episode of Activate Your Introvert and she specialises in helping CEOs set up hybrid working.
An introvert friendly culture
Company culture is a leadership decision, like every other strategy in the firm. It determines staff turnover, productivity, and creativity in the company. A toxic culture destroys staff trust in you and the firm. Many firms have a culture which is unfriendly to a third of their staff, the introverted third. Yet there are a few simple things which can make a more introvert friendly culture.
Introversion, extroversion and Ego.
Many people wonder if ego and introversion/ extroversion are linked, they’re not. Both introverts and extroverts can have oversize egos, making the difficult to work with. This article examines what introverts and extroverts can be like if they have an oversized ego.