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Gallup’s Post-Pandemic “Best Friend” Turnover Solution

August 22, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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The G12 is the core of Gallup’s approach to measuring employee engagement by rating 12 highly-researched items on a five-point scale. One of those 12 is “I have a best friend at work”. I confess to initially scoffing years ago regarding this one.

New McKinsey Data Sounds Alarm on Industry Turnover

August 16, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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McKinsey just announced that more than half of the job quitters during “The Great Resignation” did not return to their same industries. We’ve all heard stories of how the pandemic period caused workers to rethink their jobs and their lives, and now we have very hard data that proves it.

“The Great Resignation” Mid-Year Report

August 9, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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Here’s a mid-2022 data update that perhaps best predicts the futures of both “The Great Resignation” and our total economy. Let’s compare three key economic indicators for the period ending December 31st, 2021 to six months later ending in June of this year.

What Rarely Gets Said About Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

August 2, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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DEI has evolved to include the diverse thoughts of our employees rather than just their skin tone, language, gender, sexual preferences, or heritage. Today’s initiatives can then build one-on-one relationship into a trusting relationship, and one where inclinations regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion flow naturally.

There are 2 Ways to Cut Turnover. Which is Yours?

July 25, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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Let's start with, "Which method are you using to cut turnover?" This is a quiz with two possible answers, with one being right and the other being very, very wrong. And as a clue, the correct answer is based on science whereas the wrong answer is based on “best practices”.

4 Missing Pieces From Your Employee Engagement Program

July 18, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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Many companies rely on engagement surveys as the key to improving their employee engagement and retention programs. Although surveys bring in data, they don't provide solutions. Why? There are 4 missing pieces missing that keep you from having an effective engagement and retention process with real measurable results.

Key Stay Interview Question is 3 – “Why Do You Stay Here?”

July 12, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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Stay Interviews Q 3 cause employees to self-search and the reason for doing so is simple. Most employees can immediately tell you why they might leave, but few have actually catalogued in their minds why they stay. And once they announce to you why they stay they also announce it to themselves…and they tend to never forget it.

The Original SI5 and Why They Still Matter

July 4, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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One study says we are spending $1.5 billion each year to fix engagement, while the results would say we are flushing those dollars instead. These are not new problems, but they are screaming for new solutions. The time is right, then, for Stay Interviews.

Let’s Play “The Great Resignation” Game

June 28, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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All games…board games, video games baseball games…are built on foundations of rules, methods, and winners and losers. Let’s build a game regarding “The Great Resignation”.

Employee Retention Secret: Make Your CFO Your Best Friend

June 20, 2022
Richard Finnegan
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A CFO participated in a turnover cost study, and we determined one engineer cost his company $121,450 – and how that fit in with other expenses. The next day that CFO said he couldn’t sleep, that he went in early to extrapolate numbers and determined turnover was their second biggest cost. A game changer.