How to Stop Losing Employees After Spending Six Months Training Them

Most managers don’t realize they’re creating their own turnover problem until it’s too late. If you’re still managing your team with a one-size-fits-all approach, you’re already losing the battle for talent.

In the latest episode of Serenity Now for Entrepreneurs, HR consultant Cissy Pau reveals why the cookie-cutter approach to managing people is driving employees out the door—and shares the specific strategies that keep them engaged instead.

With three decades of HR experience, Cissy explains how to turn your standard annual bonus into personalized incentives (an orthodontics fund for one employee, a first-time homebuyer account for another), why 30-minute monthly check-ins eliminate awkward performance reviews, and how to manage a generation that considers phone calls intrusive.

The episode addresses real scenarios such as the employee who responds “TLDR” to your emails, the new manager who needs an agenda with “kids, pets, family” in brackets as a reminder to ask, and the business owner who talks to their team daily but never discusses career aspirations.

Cissy’s “one size fits none” philosophy isn’t about making HR complicated; it’s about making it work. If you’re spending six months training employees only to lose them, or dreading termination conversations because you’ve never given real feedback, this episode gives you the framework to fix it.