Stay Interviews Archives - Page 7 of 10

Conducting Stay Interviews in African Gold Mines Eliminates All Excuses

February 16, 2021
Richard Finnegan
Articles

Several years ago, AngloGold Ashanti invited me to help them lower their turnover rates in African gold mines…for jobs a full four kilometers underground. AngloGold Ashanti’s turnover situation was just like many of ours. Too few workers available, the jobs had their shortcomings, and their workers didn’t stay.

The Wall Street Journal Stunner Fact About Employee Retention

February 9, 2021
Richard Finnegan
Articles

Remember way back when, before the pandemic, when it was hard to find qualified candidates for most jobs? That was February 2020, exactly one year ago, when our unemployment rate hit its floor of 3.5%. Consider the off-setting turbulence that same market will face in 2021 if unemployment falls to 3.2% within a year.

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.

Yes, Stay Interviews Cut Turnover in Lithuania

January 19, 2021
Richard Finnegan
Articles

The bottom line is PEPCO’s Baltic states’ turnover has decreased by 67%...and PEPCO has yet to leverage the full power of Stay Interviews as they have taken them to the Area Manager and Store Manager levels only. Kristina tells me the likely next step is to implement Stay Interviews to include all PEPCO employees.

The Newest Thing I Learned About Stay Interviews

December 15, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

We have a client with very high entry-level turnover where we are implementing customized solutions to fix it. And we WILL fix it. But this story is about the top of the organization rather than the bottom.

The Big COVID-19 Surprise: How Many Employees Are Quitting Their Jobs?

December 1, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

Trained as an economist, Bill Conerly writes a column for Forbes which I always look out for, in part because he once wrote an article about my work.

This is a time when not only top performers can go anywhere, but all employees are taking stock of their own happiness, their families’ health and stability, and asking what matters to them most. Connecting, communicating, and applying Stay Interviews has never mattered more.

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.

Straight Talk for CHROs for Retaining Nurses & Other First-Responders

September 8, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

SHRM and I are collaborating on a new book, aiming to re-direct companies to build entirely new cultures and identify new benefits coming out of the pandemic.

The Indecision About Work From Home

July 13, 2020
Richard Finnegan
Articles

How popular is working from home during the pandemic? See if you can connect the dots through these numbers...