Culture | Jeff Kortes

Don’t Piss off Your Clydesdales

by Jeff Kortes | Sep 30, 2019 | Careers, Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

As an employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer, I often listen to people and organizations talk about how to deal with their poor performers or chronic complainers. Or, as I like to put them into “horse” terms, their jackasses! We spend way too much...

It Starts With Your Supervisors

by Jeff Kortes | Sep 13, 2019 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

When this employee retention speaker and employee retention author was working with an organization on their employee retention issues, it became very apparent why the organization was experiencing employee turnover one particular area despite the fact the...

Passed Over

by Jeff Kortes | Sep 10, 2019 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention

As this employee retention speaker and employee retention author was watching TV the other day, he saw an advertisement from Indeed about a person being passed over for promotion and then accepting a text from Indeed to interview for a new job. This is a very real...

Embedding Employee Retention in the Culture

by Jeff Kortes | Aug 1, 2019 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

People often ask this employee retention speaker and employee retention author why building a culture of employee retention is so difficult to achieve with today’s employees. Granted people were more inclined to stay with an employer in the past but they may have...

I Don’t know my Co-Workers

by Jeff Kortes | Apr 22, 2019 | Careers, Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Goal Setting, Leadership, Learning

As an employee retention speaker and employee retention author, I am always struck by how little leaders know about the people they work for, those they work with and the people that work for them. This amazes me in that we spend probably a minimum of 8 waking hours...

You’re Too Valuable Where You Are

by Jeff Kortes | Oct 30, 2018 | Careers, Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

What? Did I hear that comment correctly? An employer telling a top-notch employer that they can’t expand a person’s role to give them more complex duties because they are too valuable for the role they are in. Why don’t they just tell the person to start to look...