I spent part of Thanksgiving reading about poverty, recognizing the irony when most of us are noting our abundances. My reasons were my natural interest stemming from an undergraduate degree in sociology, along with a specific drill-down on how can…
I can tell you scores of reasons why Stay Interviews are right for you and your company, long before crossing the waters toward the #MeToo movement which is loaded with controversy. But let’s muscle directly toward that controversy. All employees,…
Wherever you are right now, please do the following: 1. Stand up 2. Take 3 steps to your right 3. Tell yourself the top 5 things your company is doing to improve retention and engagement 4. Move back to your…
Few sentences produce more HR loneliness than the dreaded direction we receive after turnover or engagement reports are analyzed, specifically, “HR, go fix it”. One way to end that loneliness is to ask Finance to help with solutions, especially your…
800 hands immediately shot up in the air. This was the scene at the SHRM Annual Conference in Chicago last month, when I addressed a large crowd on “Cutting Turnover by 40% and More”. When I said “Raise your hand…
Perhaps the most vexing of all people management challenges, high employee turnover quietly drives every company’s costs up and their productivity down. The “quiet” part is because turnover is generally referred to as just a statistic, a percentage of employees…
Employee engagement is a hot buzz-phrase that rolls easily off the management tongue…in weekly meetings, when conducting surveys, and in various sessions where HR provides updates on new trends. How Important though, really, is employee engagement? The short answer on…
Some managers give a knee-jerk twinge when asked to conduct Stay Interviews, to meet with their individual employees to learn how to make their jobs better. They instinctively fear a rebound response of something they can’t control like pay, promotions,…
Is it just a coincidence that the worst managers usually blame their employee turnover on pay? Not enough staff? HR recruits ineffective workers? That leaders with bad management styles see employees’ reasons for leaving as every possible one but themselves?…