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Do What’s Important

Mar 25, 2026 | Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Employee Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Recruitment

Unfortunately, we tend to get caught up doing grinding sort of tasks like paperwork and lose sight of what really drives the organization toward success and lowers employee turnover. This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert wanted to emphasize...

Poaching the Competitor’s Employees

Nov 19, 2025 | Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Learning, Open For Business, Recruitment

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...

I Met the President

Sep 10, 2025 | Accountability, Adversity, Careers, Culture, Discipline, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Employee Satisfaction, favorites, Goal Setting, hiriing, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Learning, Motivation, Open For Business, Recruitment, Winning

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...

Bring Back Fun

Jul 30, 2025 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, hiriing, Job Satisfaction, Leadership

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. ...

This Lettuce is Slimy

May 21, 2025 | Accountability, Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee Retention, Employee Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Leadership

The stories this employee retention speaker and employee retention expert hears never cease to amaze me. A friend of mine works in food service for a large institution with a huge cafeteria so they serve meals three times a day. He prides himself on serving meals...

Do What’s Important

Poaching the Competitor’s Employees

I Met the President

Bring Back Fun

This Lettuce is Slimy

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