Money makes the world turn round; hence the best way of maintaining the best employees is to link salary payment to work performance. Money is a good incentive of ensuring that workers perform extra hard and they will strive to meet and even surpass their set targets. In addition, offering other benefits packages like car allowances, entertaining allowances and house allowances among others, motivates workers and gives them a sense that you worry about their welfare.

There are also methods you can use that may not necessarily incur cost. Make sure that employees know their job descriptions well and then set for them achievable targets and goals. Have a notice board where you can be pinning the employees that achieve and surpass their targets on a weekly or monthly bases.

Encouraging your employees to build their careers is a perfect incentive of ensuring you keep your best employees. Cross training programs with other related companies help in the progression and building of your staff careers. These job attachments help expose your workers to new business activities and hence develop their personal careers.

Whenever your workforce feels appreciated they will find it difficulty to leave your company since they will never know what to expect in their next job. With time as a business owner or manager you will have a competent and experienced workforce.