What does it take to retain talent?
Throughout this book, you learned methods to create a desirable work experience. You have learned how to give work meaning, how to give yourself and your team a sense of purpose, and how to facilitate productive team emergent states that improve attitudes and work outcomes. In many cases, applying the techniques you learned in earlier chapters will be enough to keep your team engaged and retain them.
Beyond providing a thoughtfully curated work experience, engineering managers can increase confidence in retaining their teams by striving to increase workplace satisfaction. In addition to your work on general leadership practices, focusing on satisfaction is an opportunity to examine how your leadership is received and what might be lacking. There is no way to guarantee you retain talent in all circumstances, but working to assure satisfaction helps to avoid surprises in discovering that an engineer on your team found some aspect of their work experience...
