Culture | Jeff Kortes

Intervention Time

by Jeff Kortes | Jan 13, 2020 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

A part of your employee retention strategies should be to be prepared to intervene when you hear an employee is dissatisfied and thinking about leaving the organization. This employee retention speaker and employee retention author was working with an organization...

Meaningful Work

by Jeff Kortes | Jan 11, 2020 | Careers, Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

This past week, this employee retention speaker and employee retention author was meeting with a colleague that shared an article from WorldatWork that indicated that in a study of 3,500 workers in the US, United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland that “meaningful work beat...

Interview for my current job…are you serious?

by Jeff Kortes | Jan 6, 2020 | Careers, Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

This employee retention speaker and employee retention author was shocked when a colleague mentioned to him that his employer wanted him to “interview for his current job” because my colleague’s organization had two divisions that were being merged so everyone was...

Simple…Not Easy

by Jeff Kortes | Dec 18, 2019 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

Last week, this employee retention speaker and employee retention author presented to an organization on how to build employee loyalty by giving your employees C.R.A.P. (Caring, Respect, Appreciation and Praise). I took them through the fundamentals that are...

I Won’t Put Up with it!

by Jeff Kortes | Dec 16, 2019 | Adversity, Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Job Satisfaction, Leadership

This past week, this employee retention speaker and employee retention author was having a conversation with a person he knows and this person mentioned that the organization they are with is being realigned and that they were hiring a new/additional supervisor into...

My Favorite Culvers Restaurant Gets It!

by Jeff Kortes | Dec 9, 2019 | Careers, Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

The other thing this employee retention speaker and employee retention author likes about this particular Culvers is the crew that works there. Virtually everyone that works there is a millennial or a Gen Z. This crew is incredible. I hear SO many people whine...