Jeff Kortes | Jeff Kortes

These Are My Expectations

Mar 11, 2026 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Leadership, Learning, Motivation

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert listen to employers all the time about the fact that, oftentimes, new employees don’t live up to the expectations they have for these new employees. Then, when this employee recruitment expert probes...

Are you Approachable?

Feb 25, 2026 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert find that approachability is difficult to describe. In most cases, a lack of approachability exists because of a lack of trust between the leader and the employee that has built up over time. When the...

Stop Being So Difficult

Feb 11, 2026 | Culture, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

While watching Sweet 16 and talking with a neighbor of mine, the topic turned to work. He is fast approaching 65 and is looking forward to retirement. Well, sort of looking forward to it. This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert were shocked...

The Only Easy Day was Yesterday

Jan 28, 2026 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Leadership, Learning, Motivation

Like most organizations, this employee retention speaker and employee retention expert has seen organizations taking it on the chin on both the recruiting and employee retention side when it comes to staffing. Frankly, I’ve seen it happen to my business because of...

It’s Not Corporate

Jan 14, 2026 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

As we walked to the meeting room where this employee retention speaker and employee retention expert would be speaking the next morning, we got talking. He mentioned that he had been with the hotel for 40 years. In fact, he had even retired once and then came back...