It’s free, it’s simple, and it will give you the edge over your competition. As a young professional kick-starting my career, I would like to draw your attention to what I value in your organization and why it will work for you to recruit and retain talent. Transparency in your organizational culture is a valuable benefit that is overlooked by management every day. So what is transparency? Transparency comes from the root word transparent defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as: free from pretense or deceit; easily seen through; readily understood; characterized by visibility or accessibility of information.
As a young professional driven to succeed, full of energy, and ready to take on the world, I want to feel knowledgeable about my organization and be confident that I am informed and aware of what is to come. Young talent can be a very powerful ingredient in your organization and a transparent atmosphere can help guide, develop, and grow young professionals into the future stars you will rely on. As much as I expect my supervisor to demand my best performance, I too expect ongoing constructive and honest feedback in order to make improvements and grow my strengths to meet organizational needs. Communicating to your staff any, changes, be it people or process, is important. If a piece of information is obtained “through the grapevine” and hasn’t come from management, it can be incorrect and cause employees to feel distrust, which can be difficult to repair.
Feeling safe, respected, and engaged in my career is far more important than a fat pay cheque and my back against the wall. As a young professional working mostly at the front end of projects, it is important to me to see where my contribution fits in and how my role is impacting the final product.
In a cut throat labour market, having a transparent culture could be the factor that keeps your staff loyal. Take a long look at the youth of your organization. They are the future. Do they feel they are in a trusting relationship with your organization? Are you doing what you can to be transparent and ensure they feel informed? Attracting and retaining talent can be challenging in a competitive market. Start with transparency, after all, it’s free!
MAY
About the Author:
Coralee is the “rookie” of the office, but she doesn’t let that slow her down! Armed with a Bachelors degree in Human Resource Management, experience working with her family’s private business, and a forward thinking nature she is ready to take on anything that is thrown her way. Coralee has a talent for achieving forward motion. Her fresh perspective and ability to “think outside the box” adds a crisp quality to her contribution in projects. Determined to develop her career in Human Resources, she has landed in just the right spot, rubbing shoulders with a variety of dynamic seasoned professionals. Coralee graduated from Dickinson State University where she competed on the Varsity Athletics Rodeo Team for the Blue Hawks. Coralee is an accomplished cowgirl having competed at various levels of rodeo throughout the United States and Canada. Her love for animals doesn’t stop at horses she is the proud owner of a 90 pound Staffordshire terrier named “Chauncey”.