How to Reduce First-Year Employee Turnover

Companies across the US regularly face the issue of employees exiting the organization within the first year of employment. This is important because replacing an employee is an expensive practice that can be cured. Continue reading to learn the best way to reduce first-year employee turnover. A recent study shows that 52% of employee turnover occurs within the first twelve… Continue reading How to Reduce First-Year Employee Turnover

Improve Employee Retention with Stay Interviews

The U.S. workforce is experiencing a turnover tsunami and those organizations proactive in employee feedback efforts will undoubtedly see their retention improve.   Like mining for gold, you actively prospect and sift through applicants to strike pay dirt with employees that have the potential to be high-performers and to stay with your company for a… Continue reading Improve Employee Retention with Stay Interviews

Defining Employee Stay Interviews

Employees stay at organizations for different reasons than they leave, and nearly every organization is unique in the reasons employees stay.1 Therefore, Stay Interviews are common tools used in building effective employee retention strategies1. We have defined and detailed the many elements of conducting effective Stay Interviews in the Essential Guide to Conducting Stay Interviews,… Continue reading Defining Employee Stay Interviews

The Power of Asking Why in Generating Actionable Feedback

Confident male boss leader in eyeglasses explaining project details to new female employee at meeting. Concentrated young woman job applicant listening to hr manager questions at interview in office.

An often ignored three letter word that’s answers are extremely powerful to the learning process. Some of us remember that stage in life when our kids walked around asking “Why?” to everything we said. That may have been in the toddler years, some may have had the pleasure of experiencing that in the terrible teen… Continue reading The Power of Asking Why in Generating Actionable Feedback