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Targeting Turnover Blog

Think It’s Hard to Find An Electrician Now? Just Wait.

Think It’s Hard to Find An Electrician Now
Rebuilding our infrastructure is just a matter of time, measured in months. I wonder, though, if anyone in Washington is wondering where the needed workers will come from because I can’t find an electrician now. But “The American Jobs Plan” is about more than electricians. It’s about 19 million Americans with various work histories getting new jobs.
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Alarming Realities Regarding Employee Engagement

Alarming Realities Regarding Employee Engagement
How hard is it to understand that employees do want recognition, communication, and career coaching…but they want it from their boss? Yet we persist to believe one-size-fits-all programs are worthy substitutes for our managers performing their jobs. So there is no mystery why employee engagement has been stuck for 20 years.
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Connecting Dots Between Benefits, Employee Turnover, & Netflix

Connecting Dots Between Benefits, Employee Turnover, & Netflix
We learned a new trick at home this past weekend, that when we turned on the captions the shows got better. It cleared up jumbled dialogue and we paid more attention to the background notes. Things didn’t notice before that add to the experience but still don’t compete with the primary story line, the continuously-developing plot, and the stars of the show. And the stars of your must-cut-turnover show are your first line supervisors.
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7 New Statistics on the Road Record-Level Turnover Coming

Record-Level Turnover Coming Your Way
So now comes new information in the past seven days that drives home that this wacky idea of 3.2% unemployment by year end is real. And as hard as it is to retain your best current workers, retaining is a better strategy than recruiting…against the headwinds of all that is listed above. How does one recruit better when unemployment is becoming 3.2%? And maybe even worse in your local market?
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