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Best Employee Engagement Gauge: 1-Day Survey or 1-on-1 Conversation?

Best Employee Engagement Gauge: 1-Day Survey or 1-on-1 Conversation
As important as engagement is, what do you think provides the best data? A one-day snapshot survey or a regularly scheduled one-on-one manager to employee conversation. To truly know how our employees feel about their jobs every day, we know conducting Stay Interviews are the best way to ask, listen, probe, and respond to individual problems and needs. That’s how to truly gauge employee engagement and improve employee retention.
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Pay or Disrespect – What Drives High Performer Turnover?

Pay or Disrespect – What Drives High Performer Turnover
A recent Harvard Business Review article provided convincing data that top performers are the first to quit when new hires are getting paid more than they are. Overall salaries are projected to increase another 4% this year, causing even more salary compression. And importantly, the increase in online-everything makes it far easier for employees to know how much peer employees are getting paid…especially new hires whose pay is blasted across Indeed and other hiring sources. So yes, everyone knows.
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How Employee Turnover Is Like Losing a Marriage

How Employee Turnover Is Like Losing a Marriage
“The things that destroy love and marriage often disguise themselves as unimportant. They’re not bombs and gunshots. They’re pinpricks. They’re paper cuts.” The common thinking about why employees quit is usually pay, benefits, career paths, and other broad one-size-fits-all expressions. The reality though is that many employees are quitting their jobs today because of the hundreds of paper cuts by their direct supervisors.
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