Employee Turnover Archives - Page 4 of 6

How Much Do Managers’ Spans of Control Influence Turnover Rates?

February 2, 2021
Richard Finnegan
Articles

There needs to be a new-found mathematical equation that says (1) if you have high turnover that impacts productivity and (2) you have high spans of control and (3) you have a clue about how much turnover costs, then (4) maybe you should rethink your high spans of control.

How to Measure Employee Engagement

January 26, 2021
Richard Finnegan
Articles

Employee engagement is a fuzzy concept that usually generates a fuzzy metric. Most of us conduct employee engagement and we assume the results never vary, that somehow a one-time snapshot on the third Thursday in March reflects how our employees feel about their jobs every day.

Attention CEOs: Help Your HR Professionals Save 20 Hours Each Month

November 17, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

Never waste your time again asking an employee why she’s leaving. Never analyze a vendor’s data regarding why your employees leave. Never compile data into a report to tell your top team why your employees are quitting. Never report the top 5 reasons why employees quit ever again.

Ready to Lose Good Workers Who Quit to Stay Home With Their Children?

October 27, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

There is a new bug going around and I’m afraid we are all going to catch it. The bug is you will lose several high-performing employees because they will choose to stay home to teach their school-aged children. Given the…

Suffering from High Turnover & Low Engagement?

October 20, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

What does science tell us about cutting turnover and improving engagement? Do scientific studies mention exit interviews? Employee surveys? Focus groups? Salary surveys? Benefits benchmarks?

Fool-Proof Methods To Improve Employee Engagement Every Time – Guaranteed!

October 13, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

Does any metric across your entire company matter more than employee engagement? Or employee retention? Unless you are creating revenue entirely with robots, the answer is no. As you consider this, also consider that top-performers generate as much productivity as four workers, so it is essential that you know what each of them thinks about...

Employees Still Quitting and Companies Still Hiring During Pandemic

September 22, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

people are still quitting and business are still hiring during the pandemic

There continues to be a lot of action on the job-changing front. The data doesn’t lie

Want to Know the Massive Missing Piece Regarding Supervisory Training?

September 15, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

Choose any one of the hot current supervisory training programs, say Emotional Intelligence or Situational Leadership or Constructive Confrontations, and you’ll find they all hit the wall in practice due to a very easy-to-grasp reason.

The Very Good News Tucked Inside

April 27, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

The Washington Post recently combined with the University of Maryland to survey on Covid-19 issues and released their results regarding political approval ratings and predictions for when businesses should re-open. At first this looked to me like more of the…

Telling Employees the Truth About COVID-19 Builds Trust

April 14, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

Employees who are still coming to work are rightly fearful and are listening to management’s every word as though it is coming through a megaphone. Today is the day to communicate truths as we know them, both frequently and compassionately.