Category Archives: How to Retain Employees

Has it ever puzzled you why people act the way they do? Have you ever been amazed that someone did something absolutely opposite of what you would have expected?

One essential quality to develop effective leaders rests in leaders understanding people. Why do they do what they do? Then working with those personalities and character traits to guide, motivate, inspire, and lead.

How can you understand people?

When others don’t think and act the way we do, we are sometimes stumped about how to motivate and lead employees. Fortunately there are a number of tools to help leaders assess their team and understand their personalities.

Myers-Briggs is the classic test, but many new personality assessments now make it easy to predict how your employees will act and what will motivate them to excel.

Find a good program and have your entire team take the assessment. Then spend time with … Continue reading Develop Effective Leaders →

Use your training—both internal and external—to develop happy employees. These people are motivated and want to build up your company. When everyone is onboard working for the common good, great things happen.

So what steps can you take in developing motivated, productive employees? One key lies with effective training.

Here are 7 keys to training and developing employees Train employees in jobs they like.

Transfer responsibilities from your worker that he or she finds boring, dull, or uninteresting. There are others for whom routine gives security. This frees up your worker to take on new and more interesting work. When your staff finds their jobs exciting and challenging, they will be happier and more productive. Give your employees room to develop more control.

Help your employees self-manage. For some you can simply let them loose. Let them choose work time, break time, and flex-time. You may set the … Continue reading 7 Essentials for
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Accurate employee retention surveys can help companies in many ways. They can show them how many satisfied and unsatisfied workers they have. Or they may bring to light attitudes and the percentages of employees planning to stay or leave.

Surveys can discover what makes workers happy or unhappy so you can give your employees what they need to stay motivated and satisfied with their jobs. And they may build morale as employees have a chance to share their opinions in a confidential setting.

A recent survey on Workforce Retention by the American Psychological Association reported: 60 % of working Americans remain with their current employers because of benefits 59 % stay because of pay 67 % stay because their jobs fit well with the other aspects of their lives 67% stay at their current jobs because they enjoy the work they do 39 % stayed because they didn’t … Continue reading Employee Retention Survey →

In this day and age of high unemployment, some businesses think they have their employees in a headlock. That could not be further from the truth.

They may retain the average, or low achieving employees, but their stellar employees are not deterred by a slow job market. They know they can find work whenever they want.

What do you need to do for retaining your prized employees? How can you can create a business environment that keeps them satisfied?

3 Key Ways for Retaining Employees Nurture Strong Employee/Boss Relationships.

Power corrupts. Sometimes the more power bosses have, the less well they use it. Watch managers and evaluate their management style.

In their book, First Break All the Rules: What The Worlds’ Greatest Managers Do Differently, authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman said people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.

To insure employee retention in your company, check … Continue reading Retaining Employees →