Employee Performance | Jeff Kortes

Adapt What Worked Before

by Jeff Kortes | Sep 23, 2020 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Employee Satisfaction, Goal Setting, Job Satisfaction, Leadership

Things that this employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer heard as a member of a discussion group he was invited to at a local chapter of a national association were: We don’t celebrate success like we used to. Even though we used to celebrate success...

Email and Zoom Don’t Cut It

by Jeff Kortes | Sep 21, 2020 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

This employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer was a member of a discussion group he was invited to at a local chapter of a national association and it became clear…email and Zoom don’t cut it. Not that they don’t work but leaders have not found...

Messaging Matters

by Jeff Kortes | Sep 14, 2020 | Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Job Satisfaction, Leadership

This employee retention speaker and employee retention trainer was speaking with a President of a company at an association event after the President had mentioned how they were messaging in their organization about the Covid-19 pandemic. Many organizations have done...

I Want More Flair

by Jeff Kortes | Sep 10, 2020 | Adversity, Careers, Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

The Covid-19 pandemic has served to highlight the fact that people love appreciation and praise. How do I know that? More people tell me at events that they aren’t getting appreciation and praise like they used to because it seems everyone is “grumpier” and, for...

They Just Didn’t Listen

by Jeff Kortes | Sep 9, 2020 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

This employee retention speaker and employee retention author listened intently as the guy explained that he has essentially been doing the same thing every day for the past year. They have him making calculations on projects that are the equivalent of doing math...

Use the Summer Blahs to Advantage

by Jeff Kortes | Aug 27, 2020 | Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention

All too often when I was an HR leader, it was time to take a deep breath and to relax a bit because you simply didn’t have the volume like normal. The week between Christmas and New Year is often like this as well. Things tend to be a bit slower…or at least slower...