Jeff’s Employee Retention Blog, Tips and Advice
Enough is Enough
When this employee recruitment expert talks to potential candidates about jobs I’m looking to fill for client organizations, one of the questions I automatically ask is, “Why would you think about leaving your current organization?” The responses I get are all...
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 Serve the Customer
As part of my normal routine, this employee retention trainer asks, “How long have you been here?” and “Why did you leave your prior job to come here?” In 90% of the cases, I hear horror stories about how leaders treat their people. This was no different. Mike,...
Change Your Mindset
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 old “catch people doing things...
Taking the Human out of Human Resources
This employee retention consultant has noticed that particularly in the area of communication on employee benefits to employees. In many cases, HR Leaders know it! I got a call recently from an organization that asked me to help them develop a communication plan...
What’s the Plan?
Even though he and I had not worked in the organization at the same time, we discovered in one of the conversations that we had both, at some point worked for this particular owner. My young colleague still stays in touch with many of the people from the...
Want the Best…Expect the Best
As much as I hate to say it, get used to it! It’s not going to change! The key to turning the corner is to change your philosophy and want the best for your employees but also expect the best from them. When I watched my two sons wrestle in high school, this...
An Email From the CEO
As she got into the details, this employee retention trainer was impressed. She had not even started and she was in the notice period after accepting the job but had not started working for her new employer yet. She came home one day from work and was checking...
You Don’t Track Employee Turnover?
We tend to use data for many of our decisions and that is a good thing in many ways. The first step of course is to actually track it. It just amazes this employee retention trainer that some organizations that reach out to me to conduct workouts for their...
Are Your Employees Burned Out?
If this employee retention trainer is asked what can be done to encourage people to be more positive, I tell them that leaders have a huge impact on whether the work environment is positive or not. Leaders need to be more positive if they want others to act that...
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