When a senior executive is ready to quit because their boss berates them in public you know it’s pretty bad. This employee retention speaker and employee retention consultant often hear from attendees at conferences where I speak about how their boss is treating them poorly.  However, this particular incident really amazed this employee retention trainer ..read more

A major lack of leadership will soon be upon us in both the private and public sectors. As part of my employee retention process, this employee retention trainer often finds himself in a position where I have to conduct basic leadership training.  This is often because supervisors and managers have never been trained or have ..read more

Recently, this employee retention speaker and employee retention author heard about a YouTube video that went viral about the termination of an employee. When this employee retention consultant heard the details, I was appalled.  In this day of technology, it has become more and more common for employees to tape the termination/separation discussion that takes ..read more

Why is it that organizations wait for employee turnover to be a major issue before they start to act?  I have no clue.  This employee retention speaker and employee retention consultant do know that one of the key elements that can truly help is how you communicate with your people.  Unfortunately, organizations see communication as ..read more

All too often we take first-line supervisors and managers for granted. This employee retention consultant and employee retention speaker sees organizations taking their first-line supervisors and managers for granted.  This is a major mistake.  I was taught by my second boss that these people were worth their weight in gold.  It was reinforced by subbing ..read more

With text and email being used so much we have forgotten the power of face-to-face communication. Most organizations are at a danger point because of a lack of face-to-face communication in the viewpoint of this employee retention speaker and employee retention author.  Frankly, I even find myself doing this.  This is scary because only 7 ..read more

Unfortunately, we tend to get caught up doing grinding sort of tasks like paperwork and lose sight of what really drives the organization toward success and lowers employee turnover.  This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert wanted to emphasize what is important for any boss but particularly for an HR Leader.  Fortunately, I learned ..read more

I regularly speak to employees in a wide variety of jobs.  One of the common themes I hear with these employees is often times their employer gives them a hard time about a variety of different little topics.  They include things like flexibility in work hours, time off, overtime etc.  Having been an HR leader ..read more

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert was eating a peaceful lunch and then I heard this major commotion from across the courtyard.  There were people laughing shouting and having a great time.  As most of you know who read the blog of this employee recruitment expert, I’m naturally curious and was not afraid to ask what was going on.  When my waiter came by, I asked him what was going on and he replied, “That’s just Bobby the Director of Housekeeping and his team.”  It didn’t sound like most team meetings I have attended.  Because I wanted to le ..read more

This employee retention speaker and employee retention expert hears this type of comment when I am doing employee retention workshops or when speaking on employee retention to associations.  This problem has been going on for ages.  Generally, organizations work around the difficult employee.  This creates animosity amongst good employees and destroys the credibility of  HR and the leader of the difficult employee.  So, it’s time to deal with these types of issues because one of the main reasons people quit an organization is their teammates.  Dealing with the dif ..read more