Ep. 43 | Jonathan Reynolds - People don’t Leave Companies, they Leave their Managers

2022-01-20

On this episode of The Rich Equation Podcast, Ashish is joined by guest Jonathan Reynolds. Ashish and Jonathan speak about leadership and how technology is impacting the recruiting business. Jonathan tells us exactly how employers need to treat their people. Ashish and Jonathan discuss how people leave managers not companies and that is why building relationships and making your people believe they are important is the key to retention and successful teamwork. Ashish and Jonathan also discuss the customisable lifestyle we are all living in and how we have the ability to control the majority of our environment. This episode shines light on how employees pick their employers and Jonathan provides us with the advice we as leaders need, to make our companies attractive to high achievers.

HIGHLIGHTS:

0:00 – Ashish shares a brief introduction to his guest Jonathan Reynolds
4:00 – Jonathan shares how he used to be called the talent thief because he was working as a head hunter
7:17 – Jonathan speaks about technology in modern day business and how it aids the hiring process
14:14 – Jonathan talks about the importance of treating your staff with grace and treating them like the high achievers that they are
20:55 – Jonathan speaks about how people don’t leave companies they leave managers
22:00 – Jonathan shares how people leaving managers is a relationship issue and that’s why Tides are so focused on developing relationships
22:32 – Jonathan states that people need to be believe that they are really important to you
23:45 – Jonathan talks about how we are living in such a customisable lifestyle right now and how we can control a lot of our environment
24:40 – Jonathan advises employees to ask their employees, what are some opportunities they would like professionally that they can help them grow in over the next 12 months
27:29 – Ashish asks Jonathan about what he learned most in 2021 as a leader
27:51 – Jonathan states that if we don’t take care of our people, someone else will
30:45 – Jonathan shares his daily routine
32:50 – Jonathan talks about a rough season he’s been going through and how he overcomes ‘off days’
34:35 – Ashish mentions how it’s very easy for us to automatically default to work to try and work through life stress
37:10 – Ashish asks Jonathan about what he’s afraid of
39:3 – Jonathan speaks about how true richness to him is knowing he was faithful with what God gave him to do
41:23 – You can contact Jonathan through LinkedIn: Jonathan D. Reynolds Titus Talent Strategies