IT teams

Retaining your IT talent is a vital task every executive must prioritize. Without IT support, the inner workings of most companies today would collapse. That said, the technology industry often experiences high turnover rates, with a 13.2% turnover rate, which results in significant time and resource costs for replacing staff. One way to prevent your business from joining the percentage is by motivating and rewarding your IT talent.ย 

The following are some of the most meaningful ways to reward your IT talent and motivate them to continue growing with your organization.ย 

Relieving Mundane Tasksย 

A truly meaningful reward for IT is empowering the opportunity to perform more strategic work. IT teams can be tirelessly overwhelmed by mundane and tedious tasks that can keep them from pursuing passion projects and strategic initiatives that build job satisfaction, boost motivation, and enhance loyalty.

Digital employee experience (DEX) solutions that include automated remediation and AI, can provide the autonomous and proactive troubleshooting needed to pull IT out of the help desk treadmill. As a result, issues can be resolved before they impact employee experience โ€“ making IT an organizational โ€œhero.โ€

Make Work Meaningful

We all remember our first few years in the workforce. While overwhelming and confusing at times, most of us were excited to make a difference. As we progress in our careers, priorities change, and to-do lists lengthen. At some point, our mindset shifts from future development to reacting in the now. The same is true for your IT teams.

By eliminating โ€œin the weedsโ€ work, IT can move from a reactive pace to a proactive one, which has significant value for the organizationโ€™s performance, growth and success. This recognition builds personal status and team value, increases job satisfaction, and presents new opportunities and time to focus on strategic initiatives.ย 

Empowering and Rewarding Your Team

Somewhere along the way, company leaders may have forgotten that their team, much like themselves, appreciates recognition for their accomplishments or even a motivating reward. In 2022, almost half of U.S. workers left their jobs because they felt undervalued and unappreciated.

The same survey reported that 65% of employees would work harder if they felt like their contributions were noticed by their managers. Even if recognized, the underlying issue often comes to the workplace culture. Rather than handing out a reward that can be simply presented and forgotten, leaders should empower IT with the time and resources to be more strategic in support of greater innovation and creativity. However, this can take time because it falls more on a cultural shift than a one-and-done reward.

While cultural shifts can take time, there is no time like the present to take the initial steps of empowering innovation. Building a culture of openness and strategic thoughtfulness can truly accelerate success and give IT jobs more meaning. The return can be immediate in terms of staff goodwill and engagement.

By rewarding IT team members with more time to focus on passion projects and strategic missions, theyโ€™ll feel more valued, trusted and engaged right away, with the long-term value to the business being even more meaningful.

Take steps to do the โ€œnext right thingโ€ relentlessly. When we work as a united team, we can focus on doing whatโ€™s right in every action we take. The accumulated results can lead toย staggering achievements.

By unburdening IT teams from tactical tasks and empowering them with tools to focus on strategic outcomes, you can enable them to truly pursue innovations that truly make a difference.ย 

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