“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 …
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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!
Read More »A Tidal Wave Of Vacation Requests Will Soon Reduce Productivity And Retention
Few managers are prepared for the overload of post-COVID vacation requests to become their #1 operational problem soon Alert: Expect a high volume of pent-up and overlapping employee vacation requests this summer. Because one survey showed that 92% of Americans didn’t take or postponed a vacation last year due to …
Read More »A Job Impact Statement – A Tool For Showing A Job Makes A Difference
A “job impact statement” motivates disengaged employees and top candidates by showing them how their job really does make a difference. Knowing Key Motivators Is Essential In Our Work Environment Who wouldn’t utilize a simple no-cost motivational tool that makes it clear to employees specifically how their job makes a …
Read More »High-Touch Tools For Remote Onboarding (Parts 1 & 2)
The focus of this article is to provide a “toolkit” of effective intuitive high-touch tools that should be used at the team level when every new worker must be onboarded remotely.
Read More »Half of Top Performers Quit Last Year — and It’s Likely Happened to You
Perhaps the most alarming statistic of the year comes from recent research by The Predictive Index (TPI) revealing that “on average, 47% of high-performing employees left their company last year.” What could be worse news to your executives than learning that nearly half your firm’s high-performing employees quit? The loss would be …
Read More »Let Employees Do What They Do Best By Stopping ‘Responsibility Creep’
Responsibility creep is where top performers (because of their success record) continually get new responsibilities piled on them. Eventually, they don’t spend much of their time “doing what they do best.” They end up spending as much as 60% of their time doing work that they don’t like doing and …
Read More »Stay Interviews and Other Powerful Retention Tools by Dr. John Sullivan
One of the most powerful retention tools available is the "stay interview." Not only is it inexpensive and easy to implement, but conducting a stay interview with your top performers is one of the highest ROI activities that ANY manager can utilize.
Read More »A Buddy Hiring Program Attracts, Retains, and Increases Productivity
Working with your best friend shouldn’t be ignored. It carries three simultaneous benefits. It directly contributes to attracting and retaining talent, but it also significantly increases productivity.
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