Do Managers Create as Much Stress as Spouses?
The answer is “yes”, according to a new SHRM study that covers the overall impact of managers on employees’ mental health.
Is Recruiting Today a Doom Loop for Tomorrow’s Turnover?
What is the best two-word description for recruiting today? Doom Loop “a painful cycle of decline”. The recruiting doom loop can be overcome with proven smart retention practices.
CVS Waives the White Flag on Turnover
CVS and Walmart announced last week they would cut pharmacy hours “in the midst of a pharmacist shortage.” There is a “canary in the coal mine” situation happening here.
Exit Interviews – More Like Autopsies or Toe Tags?
Exit interviews are often constructed so poorly that the most common leave reason is “better opportunity”. How can HR possibly quantify what “better opportunity” means? Perhaps managers should be asking their current employees why they stay.
How a Governor’s Law Could Improve Recruiting and Retention
On his first day in office, Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania signed into law that 92% of state jobs will no longer require a college degree. Implementing the “Pennsylvania plan” helps improve recruiting and retention efforts through the change of developing careful language and screening processes to match candidates with real job qualifications.
How Much Can Pay Fix Turnover?
Companies that believe retention is based on pay, benefits, or any other traditional reason are dogs chasing their tails. They will never out-pay their competition for talent…but they will irritate and lose top performers by constantly raising starting pay without addressing pay compression for others.
I’m Thankful for This One Career-Changing Day
This story is the genesis of my completely re-directing my career by taking one idea…how to cut turnover…and launching my second-half entrepreneurial work life.
Last Thursday and Retention Accountabilities
Two things happened last Thursday that will juice anyone’s interest in cutting employee turnover…and both were about getting c-suite executives to support moving retention accountability out of HR to the frontline managers where it belongs.
What Did My SHRM22 Speaker Scores Say About Retention?
The feedback from my SHRM22 Annual Conference concurrent session tells me participants were starving for real retention solutions, at a time when all U.S. companies were facing 11 million open jobs and 3.5% unemployment.
Clifton Says Team Leaders Drive Retention Success
Jim Clifton is CEO of Gallup one of his book’s contains a most interesting subtitle that uses the phrase, “team leaders.” Jim’s use here is very purposeful, as he makes clear in the book, and from work we’ve done, I can tell you organizations that leverage team leaders cut turnover by greater than 30%.