Why Good Employees Leave By: Gregg Gregory, CSP | - A job-hopping market is about to take off and retaining good employees will be crucial. Are you ready?
Vickie left the mortgage company she worked with for several years for a competitor and a promotion. No one could blame her for leaving; after all, she had dreams of her own to pursue. Vickie was well-respected by her co-workers, therefore two of them contacted her almost immediately wanting to come work for her. Vickie knew the talent each possessed and brought them both on board.
Make An Amazing Employee Welcome Package By: PaulBaribeau | - If a job interview is like a first datewith the employer and the job seeker getting to know each other and trying to make a good first impressionan employees first few days at a new company is the honeymoon period.
Unlike an actual honeymoon (hopefully, anyways), the first day or two of work can be awkward and uncomfortable for new employees. They dont know their co-workers, and they know relatively little about their new employer, so they may at times feel insecure or e ... Tags:Employee Retention, Strategy, Engagement
Make Your Offer Package Stand Out By: PaulBaribeau | - So you found an incredible candidate for an important job that you desperately need to fill. Congratulations!
What do you offer? All the obvious things make sense: An attractive salary, good health insurance coverage, and plenty of vacation time. But to land a "big fish" these days, that often isnt enough.
So what are the perks and benefits that employees say they like the most these days? The following comes from websites that track what employees have to say about ... Tags:Employee Retention, Human Resource Management, Hiring
By Angela Stringfellow. Angela is a social media strategist, and a public relations and marketing communications consultant.
Walk into a workplace. Quick: What's the vibe? Is the place thrumming? Are workers engaged, busy, upbeat? Or does the tension of the place suck the breath out of you as soon as you enter the lobby?
Six Solution Steps To Retaining Employees By: Gregg Gregory, CSP | - When was the last time you had your team's battery charged?
What's your organization's turnover or churn rate? Has it increased over the last 18 months? If you are like 40% of firms surveyed in the Monster Intelligence report developed by Monster Worldwide, the leading global online careers company you too have noticed a significant up tick in voluntary resignations.
In the same report by Monster Worldwide the survey shows that an astonishing 70% of Human Resource leaders indicate ... Tags:employee retention, team-building, manager, leader
Generational Differences Education: The First Step To Motivate Employees And Increase Retention By: Tinker Barnett | - For the first time ever, there are four generations in the workplace. From oldest to youngest they are Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y, who are people under age 31. Generational differences are the values, attitudes and beliefs of each generation, shaped by what each group learned from formative events in their young lives. Much like "bad habits", they can stay with us a lifetime and are often difficult to change. I call them generational differences because they can cause a lot o ... Tags:generational differences, employee retention, Gen Y
Customer Service Assessment By: John Cole | - The main purpose of the applicant tracking system is to assist the administration of the organization, or more specifically the human resources department, according to track their incoming applications work, and in turn, helps them recruit the right people.
Applicant tracking system (ATS) computer software that facilitates the management of the organization in their staffing needs. He also referred to as a platform for talent management or in other words, resume database. Applicant ... Tags:customer service assessment, applicant tracking systems, employee retention
How To Retain Top Talent As The Economy Improves By: Russ Silva | - As the economy improves, more opportunities will become available for your companys top performers. What are you doing to retain your top talent?
A recent Society for Human Resource Management study finds that approximately 83% of employees will likely be looking for new jobs as the economy improves. Another study says 48% of middle managers are now looking. Our own research shows that 53% of employees are likely to leave their companies (read: want to) in the next 12 months.
Eliminating Your Employee Turnover Rate By: Dianne Shaddock | - Has this ever happened to you: you employ a great worker, commit time, effort and organizational resources into instruction, simply to discover that the employee has found another career opportunity after merely a year?
Are there ways in which it is possible for you to be proactive and minimize employee turnover? A handful of managers think that they know just what their staff need. You may well be amazed to find that it really is not necessarily what you believe.
Streamline Your Processes With Recruitment Outsourcing By: Andrea Watkins | - For every biotech company working to bring a drug to market, the road to commercialization is a long and expensive process. Paving the way to success are the scientists working diligently to uncover new therapeutic medicines for the treatment of disease. With such a high stake on intellectual property, many biotechnology companies place a premium on their talent.
How To Keep Employees Engaged...an Interview With Ray Warren, General Manager, Sa By: Gregg Gregory, CSP | - The day Paula waited for had finally arrived. After 30 years with one company, and hardly taking a single sick day, it was time for her to retire. She had enjoyed working, though now it was her time to enjoy life. After all, she and Tony - her husband of more than 26 years - had raised two beautiful children, each with a bachelor's degree and employed with great jobs. Tony continued to work, not because he had to, rather because he still enjoyed the idea of getting up and making a difference in ... Tags:employee retention, management,
Valuing Vs. Recognizing Employees By: Andrea Watkins | - There is currently a lot of talk about recognition. A Google search on Employee Recognition churns out more than 900,000 hits. Recognition is one of those principles of people management that we are routinely reminded about, and frankly, should be reminded about, because it can always be done better and more often.
Ending The Revolving Door Syndrome By: Joyce Weiss | - Do these statements sound familiar?
Our good employees are leaving the company as quickly as we train them.
Were stressed out from being understaffed.
Were losing too many people.
What can companies do to keep good people? Lets get started with these 5 ideas:
1. Make people feel included
Do you hear your coworkers saying, Our leaders are always in meetings and inaccessible. They dont include us in decisio ... Tags:employee retention solutions morale
Any commercial organization really should present an effective incentive program in place regarding employee motivation in order to hold a sustained growth pattern not to mention high rate of profitability. An employee is required to spend about 10 working hours practically 6 days in a full week in a stress filled not to mention at times competitive work place. These conditions can have a unfavorable effect not to mention result in the workforc ... Tags:employee motivation programs, employee retention, human resources, customer service, managememt, marketing, customer service
Advantages Of Succession Planning In Your Organization By: Iman Bahrani | - If your organization is experiencing growth and development, part of what you should prepare for is the succession planning. This task involves preparing internal personnel to fill in key and critical positions. Because the success of the organization depends on competent staff, you must prioritize the need to train your key employees to assume a higher role in the future. Here are the advantages of the doing the task.
Streamline Your Processes With Recruitment Outsourcing By: Andrea Watkins | - For every biotech company working to bring a drug to market, the road to commercialization is a long and expensive process. Paving the way to success are the scientists working diligently to uncover new therapeutic medicines for the treatment of disease. With such a high stake on intellectual property, many biotechnology companies place a premium on their talent.
Reward for Employees. There may be no better long term reward for employees than to share in the equity success of the primary owners. With an ESOP in place, a successful business will see both the primary owners and the employee owners receive an equity return that can be a major boost for their eventual retirement.
Using Corporate Massage To Strengthen Business By: Brandon J. Thomas | - With the stock market up 35 percent over the past 15 months and employers beginning to hire again, analysts are saying that a recovery in the U.S. economy has arrived. In a span of two-and-a-half years that has seen the markets shed over half of their value and more than 8 million jobs lost, the green shoots of an economic recovery are opportunities for employers to cash in. Retaining quality employees while attracting new business to your company are the best ways to capitalize in the recovery, ... Tags:Corporate massage, trade show massage, employee retention
Maximizing Your Human Resources With Assessment Solutions By: Andrea Watkins | - In order to hire the right employees and maximize their effectiveness in the organization, you need to apply effective assessment solutions. These are structured methods of assessing potential employees on a range of key criteria. These solutions can also be applied to existing employees too.
When used in the hiring and selection process, assessment solutions allow you to choose the right candidate for the job through the use of a number of structured systems. By using tested criter ... Tags:assessment solutions, employee retention, assessment
Employee Surveys Show Only Half Are Satisfied With Jobs By: Ramon Greenwood | - Only 55 percent of employees earning more than $50,000 and 45 percent of those who earn less than $15,000 annually declare they are satisfied with their jobs.
Those findings ought to set off alarm bells with employers and employees alike.
It's a proven fact that workers satisfaction impacts productivity and employee retention; therefore, employers' bottom lines benefit when their workforce is satisfied. Employees who are satisfied in their work earn more and enjoy bette ... Tags:employee surveys, employee satisfaction, employee retention
How To Develop & Retain Top-notch Cnas By: Linda Leekley BS RN | - Picture this: a couple of nursing assistants have quit and you are scrambling to replace them. You've taken the time to advertise for CNAs, interview prospective employees and complete the entire hiring process. Now you cross your fingers that these new CNAs will stick around. But, do you really want to leave it to luck? The best thing you can do to make sure that both time and money haven't been wasted is to orient your new nursing assistants.
Keep The Best Of The Best By: John Hersey | - Probably, the most difficult task for businesses today is to keep hold of the best professionals out there, and it is projected that it will get even harder in the future, when the competition to keep the best of the best increases even more.
Employee Retention: How To Keep Your Best People By: Annette Estes | - During hard economic times it's more important than ever to retain your best people. They can mean the difference between business success and failure.
This may not seem difficult on the surface since jobs are getting scarcer and maybe it's not. But even if your best people aren't leaving, they could be experiencing stress due to the fear of losing their jobs. That stress can affect productivity and morale, not to mention profitability for the company.
Jfk Wanted Us To Go To The Moon. - Employee Development By: jasonhowell | - We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things; not because they are easy, but because they are hard"because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energy and skills.
~ John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962
President John F. Kennedy said the above quote and though we went to the moon in 1969, the bigger accomplishment was telling we have the power to do things and we are capable of wielding that power. Today, knowing we h ... Tags:Coaching Employee Retention, Employee Retention, Career, advice, Advanced Career Coaching, Opportunity
In the first year of the Obama administration the economy is still in a slump. More than at any other time, employees worry about their jobs as the pool of applicants and mendicants grow larger-all begging for employment. With this preamble it only stands to reason that those who are employed should do their best to retain their jobs.
Improving Employee Retention In Your Business By: Kris Ann | - A company is only as good as the employees that work for it. Your employees are the front line for your business no matter what type of business you are in. They do the grunt work and deal with your customer/client base on a regular basis. So how can you insure that your employees stay for the long haul? The answer to this is very simple; make them so happy that they want to stay.
Leader's Guide To Surviving The Current Climate: 7 Tips To Stay The Course By: Elizabeth Hope | - In today's roller coaster economy we are hearing nightmares of employers downsizing in cruel, heartless, unprofessional and, at times, unethical ways. Employees who remain at the organization bear the burden of added work, undue stress and a vast lack of appreciation. It is easy to get caught up in the panic and drama.
Boost Employee Retention With The Perfect Christmas Card By: James Robbins | - In our virtual world of email and text messaging, the hand written card has been placed on the endangered species list. The good news is that with rarity comes great value. I want to encourage you as a manager to redefine the holiday greeting card. I want you to create something that will actually move your staff emotionally. What we have to get away from are the usual cards everyone writes each year. You know, the ones where we sign our name and maybe write the words Seasons Greetings ... Tags:employee retention, james robbins, leadership
Sometimes however, general busy-ness, or simply a lack of understanding of how to have such a conversation, means that managers fail to have such discussions, leading to the type of unpleasant surprise that no-one likes to get.
In Business, How Do You Encourage Employee Retention? By: Naz Daud | - Many businesses fail to realise the amount of time it takes to get a new employee fully trained. It can take anywhere between 1 and 6 months to train a new member of staff. It can also take the same amount of time to find out if they are suitable for the job in the first place!
Businesses also have a high turnover of staff due to not having proper policies in place to encourage the best staff to stay on in the business.
Improving Employee Retention By: Linda Finkle | - Last month, we followed along as Jane and Bob examined motivation and how each team member is motivated differently. Now, Jane and Bob are looking at how to improve employee retention by creating an environment that reduces stress while improving energy and morale.
Statistics consistently show that employees leave companies more often because of unhappiness with their role or environmental conditions rather than compensation.
Human Resources Consulting Firm Provides Employee Retention Guidance By: Benjamin D. Cowan | - You attract them, you screen them, you interview them, you hire and train them, and then they leave you. It is estimated that employee turn over costs U.S. companies over one billion dollars annually. This cost comes from the expenses associated with: Screening resumes, interviewing candidates, testing, travel and moving expenses, training, costs associated with exit interviews, the administrative work that comes along with terminations, separation and severance pay, and increases in unemploymen ... Tags:Human, Resources, Consulting, Firm, Provides, Employee, Retention, Guidance
Why Employees Leave By: Ross Blake | - One of the questions we're frequently asked by employers of all types, including those in different countries, is Why do employees leave?
Here are 10 of the most common reasons employees leave; we haven't ranked them in their order of importance with the exception of the first one, which is usually the largest single reason employees leave.
Employees Don't Come With Instruction Manuals By: Robert Cameron | - Don't you wish employees came with instruction manuals? Studies show managers spend 60% of their time dealing with people problems. That leaves only 40% to work on the organization's objectives. Have you ever become frustrated by an employee's inability to follow simple instructions or ideas, or surprised by an employee's hostility to you or their co workers? It happens all the time.
A Four Step Process To Easily Reduce Employee Turnover By: Robert Cameron | - Would you like to reduce employee turnover? Who wouldn't? Do an internet search of "reduce employee turnover" and you will get lots of technical and complicated advice. Actually reducing turnover is a lot simpler than what many of the articles prescribe. The solution is simple, place the right people in the right job, recognize their performance, reward them occasionally, and treat them with respect. Yes money and benefits are important but study after study proves that they aren't the most i ... Tags:employee turnover.employee assessments, employee retention, employee evaluations, employee recognition
Companies routinely record and report costs such as wages and benefits, Workmans Compensation Insurance, utilities, materials, and space, yet most companies have no and report the cost of employee turnover. It can be much higher than you think.
Give People A Reason To Stay - Get Them Engaged By: Paul Phillips | - With the looming shortage of talent we are facing, smart companies are taking action now. We feel the key actions are:
Keeping the good people you already have
Having the good people perform and
Recruiting well - finding the right people to meet your current and future needs
One of the significant factors raised by Ken Blanchard in his book "Gung Ho" was Worthwhile Work. This fits in very logically with the process of planning.
Employers Keep Screening Out Great Sales Candidates By: Robert Cameron | - There are two common sales recruiting myths that are screening out top sales candidates. The first is having some sort of college degree and the second is a number of years sales experience. Wouldnt you want to see a candidate that has the talent for sales or one who has established relationships with prospective clients? You may not be attracting those people because of these two knockout questions in your hiring process.
Poor Performing Employees Severely Impact Productivity By: Robert Cameron | - In business there are two very necessary and very different forces which must be balanced so that business will perform perfectly - people and processes. But far too often they are not in balance.
CEOs are ranking people issues as one of their major concerns in 2005 as they struggle with productivity, profits, and labor shortages. Robert A. Cameron & Associates takes a new approach to quantifying and solving this growing business issue.
Stop The Revolving Door Of Employee Turnover By: Robert Cameron | - The challenge and cost of employee turnover is one of the most discussed, most frustrating and most misunderstood problems businesses face. CEOs have identified employee retention as one of their key challenges in 2005. Yet organizations continue to struggle with this costly issue. The science of psychological assessments has recently advanced, allowing the development of much more predictive assessment tools.
