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Jeff’s Employee Retention Blog, Tips and Advice

They Haven’t Made Massive Changes

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert has personally experienced corporate buy outs as a former HR Leader.  I have also seen this as an employee retention expert.  Employees observe these happenings and wonder if the new owners know what the...

Why People Quit

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert tells audiences I speak to that there are three main reasons that people quit their jobs.  It’s rather simple but often complex when you scratch the surface.  The three main reason people quit are their...

Think Like an Employee

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert is often amazed at how some leaders treat their employees.  When I work with clients, this employee recruitment expert advises HR Leaders to remind other leaders in the organization to “think like an...

They Don’t Tell Us Anything!

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert has seen the impact of poor communication and how it fuels the grapevine as it drives fear and builds stress in the workforce.  It also leaves an opportunity to have employees who bitch and moan to...

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Tenure Matters

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert has always felt that organizations with a mix of short- and long-term employees were somehow more in tune and did better than those without.  It was just the feeling of this employee recruitment...

Nobody Wants to Work with Them

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert hears this type of comment when I am doing employee retention workshops or when speaking on employee retention to associations.  This problem has been going on for ages.  Generally, organizations work...

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Off the Bench and Into the Game

This employee retention speaker and employee retention author read a WSJ article where they were discussing the practice of brainstorming and whether or not it was worthwhile.  The biggest complaint on brainstorming was it often does not produce any really good...

If You Don’t Like it…Leave

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert was shocked when I heard that comment.  It was made by a supervisor to the wife of a friend of mine.  The organization she works for is currently undergoing some turmoil and they are looking to...

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Change Your Mindset – Look for the Good

'Let's catch people slacking off' This mindset is a mindset that has prevailed forever.  Before I became an employee retention speaker and employee retention author, I used to love “strolling” through the facility and catching people doing things RIGHT!  Not the...

Ah.. Where’s the Bathroom?

Recently, I met a person who had just started a role in a new organization that’s huge in size.  They have over 5000 people employed at this facility.  You would think in a large organization like this, the onboarding process would be very buttoned-down and...

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