Stop Losing Your Best Team Members

Craig Groeschel· Host0:00

In this episode, we're gonna talk about how do you stop losing your best team members. [upbeat music] Welcome to the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast. If you're new with us, we drop a new leadership teaching on the first Thursday of every month, and I want you to get the leader guide. Go to cglp.com, hit Download the Leader Guide, and we'll send you, uh, the guide with lots of free information, questions for your team, just another way we can support you in your leadership. And if this content is helpful to you, would you do me a favor? Would you write a review wherever you consume it or rate it? That will help us get the content out to more people. I'm gonna work really hard to bring you concise, valuable, high-impact leadership content. If you do that, that would be a gift to me. Now, in the last episode, we talked about the most underused leadership habit, the gift of affirmation. We're gonna take it deeper today. If you haven't listened to the last episode, grab it first, and then today we're gonna talk about how to retain your team with better affirmation. The problem is most leaders, if they do encourage and affirm other people, they usually do it in one direction. The leader tends to affirm and encourage the people that report directly to the leader. They affirm down. A good leader initially and intentionally encourages his or her direct reports, and this matters so much, but I wanna tell you right now, in leadership, it