Ten Ways To Become An Employer Of Choice, Create Staff Loyalty, Increase Retention And Foster Engagement
To be an effective CEO or key executive, you'll need help and lots of it! So the question here is how do we whip our staff into a frenzy (as opposed to just whipping them)?
Creating Attachment
If employees don't feel they have made a connection with your organisation, it is much easier to make the decision to physically leave or to emotionally tune out and become disengaged.
Manager Actions Can Safeguard Resignation 'Triggers'
Managers directly influence around half of employee resignations, according to a retention expert, but they can take low-cost steps to avert them.
Learning A New Language
In the last few years there have been a lot of new words entering the ranks of management vocabulary. Keeping up with all these new terms can be difficult but if you don't know the latest jargon you risk being seen as out of touch by employees and other managers alike.
What Sort Of Manager Are You?
If you have read anything about employee engagement you will know that is commonly accepted that an employee's level of engagement is directly related to the relationship they have with their immediate manager.
Setting Challenges That Engage Employees
Setting meaningful challenges is one of the surest ways to break your employees away from work that no longer stretches or stimulates them - work that, in effect, leaves them psychologically locked up.
Hanging On To High Potentials In 6 Steps
Here is a six-step plan to keep your best talent for longer.
How To Be More Effective In Attracting And Retaining Senior Staff
The key issues around why people stay in a business are the same as those that CEOs and Boards need to focus on to attract top people.
How Good Managers Can Be Great At Retaining Staff
There are two main areas of influence it is essential to get right to retain and engage happy employees.
Employee Engagement: From Stale To Fresh
Boosting the performance of your team is achievable when you give people a common framework for understanding the attitude factors that lead to success. The F.R.E.S.H. approach formula can help you do that. It is a simple, 5 step process that can be applied to any organisation and adapted to suit the needs of staff and managers alike.
Finders Keepers - Losers Weepers
How to attract, retain and develop your talent. A must read for all leaders and managers - if you want to keep your best people away from the head-hunters and weekend papers!
Exit Signs - How To Spot An Employee On The Job Hunt
Early warning signs of an employee looking elsewhere provide scope to remedy the situation if necessary, or put you in good stead to begin the hunt for a new replacement and ensure the transition passes smoothly. Learn the 5 signs of an impending departure.
8 Retention Strategies For Any Generation
While there are obvious differences between Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y, the differences at a collective level are minimal.
Keeping That Seat Occupied
People want to be appreciated, valued, and acknowledged above all else. This is something that you, as an SME, can provide that big companies just never will. Play to this strength.
Re-Engage Your Team And Watch Your Organisation Grow
It used to be that the biggest staffing problem managers had to deal with was high turnover. Today, the real issue is engagement ... finding a way to get staff to do more than just turn up to work physically. It's about finding ways to engage them mentally and emotionally.
Three Key Drivers For Retaining The 'Best Of The Best' In Your Organisation
These three leadership retention drivers will retain your best and brightest employees and contribute to the forward movement of your company.
8 Crucial Conversations That Engage
At the heart of a strong employee/manager relationship is communication. Are you making the most of your opportunities to have conversations that engage?
Do Your Staff Suffer From ADE?
By now you would have heard of the childhood condition ADD or "Attention Deficit Disorder". This should cause some concern for managers as they struggle to deal with the needs of staff with short attention spans. I believe there is another condition, however, that is of even more interest if you manage people - ADE. It stands for the Actively DisEngaged employee, a new phenomenon we are seeing in workplaces all around the country.
Are Your Employees Engaged?
Why are organisations not doing enough to fix the problem of low employee engagement levels?
Six Ways To Preserve Your Most Valuable Asset
Talent retention is no longer just on the radar screen, it is now a top priority for corporate executives. And for good reasons. Companies that do not address their retention issues now will likely find themselves in a critical staffing shortage down the road as the war for talent heats up. Those that do will be able to preserve and develop their most valuable asset: their people.
Prioritising Employee Engagement Initiatives
What if your company already pays competitively, has a flexible work arrangement policy, has comprehensive performance management processes, employs effective communication mechanisms and offers a great benefits plan (including pet insurance!), but your engagement and retention levels are not what you want them to be?
The Third Key Element Of Employee Engagement - Relationships
This article looks at the third key element of employee engagement - relationships.
The Fourth Key Element Of Employee Engagement - Opportunities
The final element of the employee engagement journey is the creation of opportunities.
The Second Key Element Of Employee Engagement - Support
In this article, we look at the second of the four elements of the engagement journey - support.
Really Appreciate People - Performance Improvement Will Quickly Follow
The business buzz word today is engagement. As a result there is more information about it than we can poke the proverbial stick at. Most of it in my view is nonsense, or so complicated very little happens that is of real value.
Reduce Employee Turnover By Simple Everyday Practices
Finders keepers, losers weepers. Here's an interesting statistic: every time you replace an employee, you have a 50% chance of getting someone worse than the one you just lost! And in a small-to-medium business, who can afford that risk?
Management Tips To Ensure That Your Good Employees Stay
It is difficult to put a value on maintaining a team of loyal, experienced workers, particularly in the present climate of skills shortages and the looming exit of experienced baby boomers. However most employers would agree that good staff are priceless. So, how do you keep good employees satisfied enough to want to stay in your business?
Tips For Keeping Your Most Valuable Staff
Employers can do a number of things to improve staff retention rates in their business.
Why Will People Work For You?
If you don't have a good answer you are at risk!
Rules Of Engagement
In times of high demand for talent and increasing mobility in bright professionals, the need for their "engagement" is becoming critical.
Strategies For Retaining Staff
Retaining qualified employees is a challenge all companies face. Having the right staff directly impacts an organisation's ability to maximise productivity and achieve business goals.
Employee Engagement: What's The Hype All About?
Employee engagement has been a hot topic of conversation for at least the last several years. What is it and why does it matter?
Winning Hearts And Minds Through Workforce Engagement
Critical positions are in high demand, be they sales people, engineers or nurses. These positions are also increasingly difficult to fill. Based on multiple demographic trends, this problem is not going to get any better any time soon. But it often feels that organisations are chasing the wrong problem.
High Staff Turnover? You're To Blame!
Here's a scary thought: most employees don't leave jobs - they leave managers.
Finders' Keepers: The Secrets To Finding And Keeping The Best Employees
You can tell a lot about a company by the people it keeps.
Use Their Natural Gifts
When people are unable to use what they are naturally good at in their role, they are generally bored, frustrated, or both, and therefore don't do their best.
ERM - The New CRM!
Recruiting the right staff can be a nightmare - not only can it be depressingly time consuming but it can also be a very costly exercise, especially if you get it wrong.
How To Retain Quality Staff
Retention of quality staff is one of the single biggest factors affecting future success in today’s business world. The success of an organisation is very much dependent on their quality employees.
Make Staff Retention Your Intention
Retention of quality staff is one of the single biggest factors affecting future business success in today’s environment. In particular, the success of an organisation is very much dependent on their “critical employees” – those employees in whom the intellectual capital and corporate memory resides.
Harnessing The Power Of An Engaged Workforce
Keeping employees engaged and aligned with the needs of the organization is the responsibility of executives at all levels. And for good reason: New research shows that the more engaged the workforce, the more innovative, productive and profitable the company.
Career Development And Employee Commitment
To employees, loyalty means the desire to stay and contribute because they think what the organisation does - and how it does it, is worth their time, experience and creativity. These employees are vital to any organisation dealing with ‘retention and commitment issues’.
Retaining A Commited Workforce
Given the current war for talent - a war that is set to intensify in its ferocity in the next few years - organisation alignment experts, Corporate Alignment, look at what it takes to keep employees committed to their workplace. The nationwide commitment study (which formed part of a broader organisation alignment investigation) involved over 3,500 employees - from frontline staff through to senior management and CEOs.
Is It Worth Kicking And Fighting And Scratching For Employee Loyalty?
Is loyalty a competitive edge, or something to be discouraged in an age of an increasingly mobile work force?
Retaining Key Staff - Can You Afford Not To?
Finding and keeping good people is always a major concern for employers. And if you are not trying to retain everybody you currently have – why are you employing them?
Retention Is The Name Of The New Game
Signs of a job market recovery can be expected after the first quarter of the New Year and it will be the executive ranks leading the way.
Organizational Loyalty And Commitment
Corporate loyalty and commitment are in short supply these days for good reason.
Seven Suggestions For Sensational Staff
Quite often when I'm out stumping the speaking circuit a boss with a problem corners me. The problem - "How can I keep my good staff?" and they want an instant solution.