Employee Performance | Jeff Kortes

Upgrading the Bathrooms

by Jeff Kortes | May 20, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

Recently, this employee retention speaker and employee retention author was reading a Wall Street Journal article about recruiting and retaining employees in the manufacturing sector. For those of you who know me well, I work heavily in the manufacturing sector, so...

When they Quit and Don’t have a Job

by Jeff Kortes | May 15, 2019 | Careers, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Goal Setting, Job Satisfaction, Leadership

This employee retention speaker and employee retention author has been hearing a lot about people leaving the labor market. That is unprecedented and has caused concern because organizations are scrambling to find talent. Many experts believe it is because people...

Write Your Strategic Employee Retention Plan

by Jeff Kortes | May 13, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance

This past week, this employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer spoke at a regional SHRM conference in North Carolina. When I asked the audience how many of the attendees had a written strategic employee retention plan, not one hand went up in the...

Why EAP Drives Employee Retention

by Jeff Kortes | May 7, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

As an employee retention speaker and employee retention author, I am a major advocate of employee assistance programs or EAP. This employee retention trainer developed this appreciation for EAPs as an HR Leader. I saw first-hand how the EAP was a critical part of my...

Flexibility Matters

by Jeff Kortes | May 2, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

This employee retention speaker and employee recruitment speaker placed a candidate with one of his clients about a year ago. Prior to coming onboard, this person was adamant that they wanted to work one day a week out of the house or they would not take the...

Dealing with a Flood of Newbies

by Jeff Kortes | Apr 30, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Goal Setting, Leadership, Learning, Recruitment

As an employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer, I regularly see my clients go through tremendous periods of growth where they have an infusion of new people into the organization on their production floor. You walk out onto the floor and see ALL...