Jeff’s Employee Retention Blog, Tips and Advice
These Are My Expectations
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?
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
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
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
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...
Find A Way
Just this past week, this employee retention speaker and employee retention expert was talking with a friend. He mentioned that his daughter had decided to leave the workforce to become a stay-at-home mom. She works for a large organization and has risen through...
Fear will Destroy Your Employee Retention
This employee retention speaker and employee retention author has seen fear decimate an organization’s employee retention. Once fear takes hold in an organization it is incredibly hard to reign it in and when that happens the organization will find it loses one...
3 Important Questions
This guy saw things 30 years ago that nobody was talking about. He was years ahead of his time and people loved working for him. They saw an opportunity to work for someone that was truly a mentor back in the days when you were lucky if someone around you took...
Poaching the Competitor’s Employees
As this employee recruitment expert pulled into the parking a large blue motor coach that was parked in the back of the lot caught my eye. On the side of the motorcoach was printed the Lowes logo. I walked up to the motorcoach to check it out. What I saw on the...
Don’t Interrupt…her door’s closed!
Closed doors send the message that if your people need you that you are not available or accessible. Neither is a good thing.
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414-421-9626
Human Asset Mgmt LLC
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