Note: The following is an excerpt from the Scale Smarter Newsletter.

Alongside creating a comfortable and happy environment for your employees, as a leader, there are key tactics and strategies you can do, putting your company in the best possible position to retain employees without the heavy lift.

1. Weekly Retro Meetings

This was by far my favorite meeting when I managed teams at Uber.  Every week they were structured as follows:

1. What went well this week?
2. What didn’t go well?
3. What will we do differently in the future?

As a result, these meetings...

• Encouraged the team to share what they were working on
• Brought up things that were broken or just not working
• Created a forum for the team where they could be heard in a group setting, scaling communication in a one to many setting

Team members not only learned amongst themselves, but as a leader, it gave me the opportunity to address the things that weren’t working and work as a collective to fix them, which scaled nicely.

2. Gap Analysis for Your Employees

Define these three things with your employees:

1. Where are you currently at?