Employee Performance | Jeff Kortes

Recruitment vs. Retention…the Chicken or the Egg

by Jeff Kortes | Jul 22, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

This employee retention expert and employee recruitment expert often works with organizations that are struggling over the dilemma as to which to concentrate on first. Employee recruitment usually wins out. Although I am also a professional recruiter, i.e. a...

Give Everyone C.R.A.P.

by Jeff Kortes | Jul 18, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

As this employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer goes to various events, I get to interact with a lot of people. I always make it a point to get to learn about the people in the hotels I stay in be it the housekeepers, wait staff or bartenders. I...

Be Selfish

by Jeff Kortes | Jul 16, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

As an employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer, I often work with groups of supervisors in organizations to help them gain an understanding of what is driving their employee turnover and what employee retention strategies to use to improve their...

The Nameless, Faceless Corporation

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

Early in my career as an HR Leader, this employee retention speaker and employee retention author had a very wise boss who told him, “People quit nameless, faceless corporations.” This was one of the most profound things that this employee recruitment speaker ever...

Spinning Out of Control

by Jeff Kortes | Jul 1, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Motivation, Open For Business, Uncategorized

This employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer was driving home from conducting a workshop in northern Minnesota this past winter. The temperature was -15 degrees and the snow was blowing and drifting across the interstate so I decided to stop for the...

Know When to Get Involved

by Jeff Kortes | Jun 27, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

As an employee retention speaker and employee retention author, I often speak about how it’s important to help people in your organization to be successful. With the labor market is as tight as it has been in 50 years (Wow…that’s even before my time!), finding people...