Updated: February 29, 2024 When someone misunderstands the actions of another it can create conflict and those misunderstandings come from the lack of or poor communication. These misunderstandings and frustrations lead to poor performance, lack of workforce community, and low employee morale. It is vital employers communicate clearly, honestly and compassionately with their workforce to… Continue reading Strengthen Workforce Community & Prevent Employee Unrest During a Crisis
Category: Retention
Employee Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis
Well-being is related to physical or mental health concerns of the employee or those of his or her family. As the employability marketplace improved between 2010 and 2019, employees found opportunities to prioritize caring for themselves and their families and placed high importance on well-being reasons in their decisions to stay or quit a job.… Continue reading Employee Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis
Lack of Career Development is the Top Reason for Leaving a Job
Updated in December, 2023 For more than ten consecutive years, Career Development, or the lack of it rather, is the number one reason listed as to why employees quit their jobs. Our 2023 Retention Report once again shows the lack of Career Development opportunities is driving people to leave their jobs. If your company is… Continue reading Lack of Career Development is the Top Reason for Leaving a Job
13 Interpersonal Skills for Leaders and Managers to Master
Updated for 2023 Interpersonal Skills for Leaders in a Modern Workforce Professionalism is essential for individuals to successfully develop in the workplace and for your organization to effectively grow, as professional skills are linked to career progress and career setbacks for employees.1 Consider this – 48 percent of hiring managers feel that most new… Continue reading 13 Interpersonal Skills for Leaders and Managers to Master
The Secret to Developing Effective Exit Interview Questions
Updated for 2023 The Purpose of Exit Interviews Human resources professionals use Exit Interviews to understand employee turnover, with the purpose of using the information to make changes that increase retention of current employees. Although widely implemented, human resources practitioners often do not use a methodology that delivers critical objectives of Exit Interviews and… Continue reading The Secret to Developing Effective Exit Interview Questions
Valentine’s Day and Relationship Feedback
Valentine’s Day is here and just like any other year; it is time to check in with my significant other for our year-in-review survey. Every year on Valentine’s Day we set aside time to provide feedback to each other on our relationship. It’s a tradition we practice once a year to tell each other what’s… Continue reading Valentine’s Day and Relationship Feedback
5 Musts for Conducting Exit Interviews
Under normal marketplace conditions, it’s important for organizations to conduct exit interviews with former employees as a step to reduce turnover, increase retention and protect profits. In an employee-in-control marketplace, where approximately 3 in 4 reasons for turnover could have been prevented by the organization, it becomes critical for organizations to conduct exit interviews in… Continue reading 5 Musts for Conducting Exit Interviews
Engagement Studies Should Help Reduce Turnover and Increase Retention. Have Yours?
Twenty years ago, I was invited to deliver the keynote address at a recruitment and retention conference in Las Vegas. I spoke with the event organizers to fully understand their objectives and then crafted the deliverables for my presentation entitled “The Differing Preferences, Expectations, and Intents of an Emerging Workforce.” As it came time… Continue reading Engagement Studies Should Help Reduce Turnover and Increase Retention. Have Yours?
Employees Hold Power in Today’s Job Market
The job market in today’s economy continues to prove the power employees hold. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 2019 closed out with a 50 year low unemployment rate of 3.5% and a whopping 7.3 million job openings. This means the majority of open jobs will be filled by employees who are currently working. … Continue reading Employees Hold Power in Today’s Job Market
The Truth About Employee Engagement & Acquisition
Updated for 2023 Organizations continue to struggle with finding, attracting and retaining employees. And after they have done that, they struggle with creating the workplace conditions necessary to drive employee productivity. To manage responsibly, companies increase budgets and resources (money and people) on engagement initiatives that simply do not work. So what in fact is… Continue reading The Truth About Employee Engagement & Acquisition