Few know that the sports and entertainment industries have essentially ended key talent turnover. And because corporate retention is currently at a record low, it makes sense for corporate talent managers to more closely consider their approach, which reduces voluntary turnover to near zero. This “most effective” retention tool that …
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Read This Rant – Your Current Retention Effort Is A Joke (And why this travesty must be stopped with a data-driven approach)
Note: your team’s current nonscientific effort likely has a zero chance for complete retention. Yes, you read it right, a zero chance of keeping all of your teammates through the end of the year. And this retention travesty continues at almost every company, despite these five startling facts that should …
Read More »Inflation – Low-Cost Ways To Counter Its Impacts On Recruiting And Retention (Steps for convincing applicants not to worry about low base compensation in their new job)
This action piece… is a scannable list of alternatives to raising employee pay during high inflation. This article covers a list of compensation selling approaches. They are designed to minimize potential applicants’ fear about whether the compensation in their new job will allow them to maintain their current living standards …
Read More »Gender Pronouns – Understanding Their Many Hidden Problems (And how this program’s downsides may outweigh its benefits)
A think piece – for increasing awareness of the potential negative problems associated with using gender pronouns. Encouraging or requiring the use of gender pronouns has recently been enthusiastically supported by many corporate DEI leaders. Unfortunately, I have found that their enthusiasm has not been tempered or supported with sufficient …
Read More »Predict Each Candidate’s “Time To Turnover” Before Making A Hiring Decision (A checklist of the factors that predict both short and long retention)
With record-high turnover, it pays to predict which finalists will likely become early turnover. Improve Your Hiring Results By Predicting Each Candidate’s “Time To Turnover” Amazingly, some companies predict current employee turnover with a 95% accuracy rate. However, I suggest that it’s time to expand our turnover predictions to the …
Read More »Because Not All Turnover Is Equal, Focus Retention On Your Highest-Impact Employees
Losing Michael Jordan hurts but losing Homer Simpson rates a party, so avoid lumping all turnover together.
Read More »Staff Shortages And Turnover May Be Caused By Your Pre-Omicron Sick Leave Policies
Antiquated sick leave policies can wrongly encourage sick workers to come in or staff shortages because healthy workers stay home.
Read More »They Wouldn’t Be Quitting… If They Had Been Doing The Best Work Of Their Life
“What % of your time is spent doing the tasks that you do best?” Sadly most top performers say < 30%. And you wonder why your team is having a turnover problem? Learn to utilize the “Doing the best work of your life” retention tool Yes, it’s true that many …
Read More »What’s Wrong With The Retention Effort At Your Company… Pretty Much Everything!
The #1 CEO challenge is retention, but few know how many likely quits were identified and prevented.
Read More »Predictive Retention – Identifying Remote Workers That Are About To Quit
Preventing turnover is doable. You can ID 95% of those likely to quit and then prevent 78% of likely quits!
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