If You Need Another Reason to Do Stay Interviews, #MeToo Is It
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…
Take 3 Steps…Literally…To Fix Turnover and Engagement
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…
The Missing $ Piece: How HR Can Ask Finance To Help With Cutting Turnover
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…
Yes, HR, You Were Always Right: You Cannot Solve Turnover By Yourself
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…
What Is Employee Turnover? A Complete Overview
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…
How Bad Managers Drive Turnover
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…
The Link Between Biology and Employee Turnover
I was a strong high school student but faked my way through the sciences. While decades ago, my memory of walking into sophomore biology class is frighteningly clear, seeing a…
The New Phrase for Stopping Turnover: Business-Driven
Everything we’ve been taught about employee retention is wrong. Turnover keeps ramping up, now at its all-time high. Engagement keeps keeping on, a nice way to say our workers haven’t…
Can Washington Legislation Make Turnover Even Worse?
I can’t think of a time when decisions made in Washington have so much impact on whether your employees stay or leave. Three areas of legislation come to mind that…
How to Fix CEOs’ Top Worry: Employee Turnover
The picture is clear but bleak. Historic low unemployment plus a continuing growing economy means current employee turnover solutions are obsolete. Sprinkle in a new tax law that flushes companies…