Growing Talent From Within Your Community
- Tina Gotsch
- May 5
- 1 min read
Through our consulting program, we emphasize the importance of developing local talent within your community. It outlines steps such as selecting the right caregivers, providing effective orientation programs, nurturing employees, and managing underperforming staff. Key points include:
Selecting Caregivers: Define needs, seek relevant experience, verify references, value empathy and communication, involve residents, trust instincts, begin with a trial period, clarify expectations, and seek flexibility.
Orientation Programs: Warm welcome, mission alignment, role clarity, hands-on learning, policy review, culture introduction, resident-focused training, safety preparedness, skills validation, mentorship, and customized orientation.
Nurturing Employees: Listen actively, recognize and appreciate, offer mentorship, support work-life balance, provide emotional support, create a positive culture, invest in training, empower decision-making, ensure a safe environment, and check in genuinely.
Managing Underperforming Staff: Document behavior, communicate expectations, provide coaching, recognize patterns, evaluate impact, avoid delayed action, consult HR, conduct terminations respectfully, reinforce core values, and use it as a learning opportunity.
Benefits of Internal Growth: Improved retention, stronger team culture, higher quality of care, leadership from within, boosted morale, better problem-solving, enhanced reputation, adaptability, regulatory success, and loyalty.
Examples of Growth: Various programs and pathways for career advancement within the community and company.
Final Tips: Internal growth builds loyalty, investing in development pays dividends, leaders are made, clear pathways encourage ambition, retention improves, strong culture starts with your people, the cost of external hiring adds up, feedback fuels growth, accountability empowers growth, and developing people develops the community. Start your retention path today with Nurse Leadership Solutions Consulting!
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