Jeff’s Employee Retention Blog, Tips and Advice
Remote Work Forever…NO WAY
Everyone dreamed of working remotely so they didn’t have to commute, would not have to dress up to go to the office, would be more productive because of fewer meetings etc. etc. etc. Now, as more organizations contemplate having employees become 100% remote, many...
Beef Up Your EAP…NOW
Frankly, this employee recruitment expert is worried. In forty-some years of doing this, I’ve never seen people more demoralized, more disengaged, and less fired up about work as I have since people stood on the assembly line punching out widgets in the 70’s. ...
I Love the 4 Day Work Weeks
Recently, this employee recruitment expert who works as a “headhunter” in addition to being an employee retention speaker and employee retention author placed a candidate in a rural community where many of the employees commute quite a distance to my client’s...
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.
You Can’t Lead from Afar
Prior to the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic, many leaders were hands-off and failed to truly lead their people. They had limited interaction with them, they didn’t do regular check-ins, they failed to get to know their people and what makes their people tick so...
Employee Retention Strategies 2021
Like the old saying goes…Those who fail to plan…plan to fail. This employee retention trainer is not a believer in huge cumbersome plans. I guess the best way to describe my strategic planning is to have outlines that create a framework that can be filled in and...
Resigning Employee Goes Silent
When this employee retention trainer heard that, red flags automatically went up. I mean they REALLY went up. What most dismayed me is that apparently the employee who was resigning would not 1) Tell any of their co-workers or their boss where they were going to...
I’m Surprised…He Knew My Name
During a break in the C.R.A.P. Leadership® training I was conducting for this large organization, one of the first-line supervisors and I were talking about senior leadership and he started telling me a story about when he was a production line employee. This guy...
Strolling is the Fun Part
This particular General Manager loves to stroll around the facility to stay in touch with people, chat with them, and see how people are doing. It was apparent there was no particular pattern to his route. If he saw something of interest, he would swing over and...
Withering On the Vine
Many remote employees reach out to me all the time because of my articles on LinkedIn. These are often “regular” employees and not leaders in their organizations. What’s scary is that they are withering on the vine as they sit in their remote offices grinding...
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