Jeff’s Employee Retention Blog, Tips and Advice
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.
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...
When HR is MIA
I am also a staunch critic as well. This employee retention expert WANTS the best for the profession but also EXPECTS the best from the profession. As mentioned in my last blog, there were two people that were given a PIP’s (Performance Improvement Plan). My...
My Job is Overstuffed
In the article, they discuss if job descriptions have become moot because of the Covid-19 pandemic. What has apparently happened is that employers have loaded a host of extra/different duties into many employee’s roles. So, roles that used to have a somewhat...
I Met the President
The task force was in the process of looking at how to assimilate new hires into the workforce to cut down on the turnover of new hires during their first six months on the job. This is an initiative that, if successful, will put a huge dent in their employee...
Paperwork or People
She is relatively new to the profession and was talking about how incredibly busy she is and even though she is new in her role she already noticed that she was being consumed by an avalanche of paper. As this employee retention expert told her, “Welcome to HR!” ...
Bring Back Fun
This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert loved being an HR Leader because I loved to have fun. Don’t get me wrong, I was serious about my job and believed in driving performance, but we always had fun in the organizations where I worked. ...
My Job’s Not Enjoyable Anymore
Like most conversations, this young guy and this employee retention expert got talking about work. As we talked and he found out I was an employee retention speaker, he said to me, “I’m going to start looking for a new job because “my job’s not enjoyable...
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