With the War for Talent back on it’s time for you to target employee retention, or risk losing top talent to the enemy.
Read Full Article about Batten Down the Hatches! The War for Talent and How It Impacts Your Employee RetentionNo business can sustain itself without qualified and well-trained employees who are motivated to perform their jobs. Managers are always looking for ways to retain their best employees and keep them motivated. Employees leave employers behind for better opportunities when they feel under-valued, under-compensated, or unappreciated. As a manager, it is your job to make…
Read Full Article about 10 Tips for Motivating EmployeesIs your company struggling to retain key staff members? Is this hurting the long-term stability of your organization and making it difficult to execute against and achieve long-term goals? If so, your company may not be properly assessing the costs of employee turnover and may want to reconsider its employee compensation strategy. In today’s labor…
Read Full Article about Is Your Company’s Compensation Strategy In Line with Its Corporate Goals?You and the team worked extremely hard to turn an idea into reality. You may even think it is time to breathe a sigh of relief. The company is up and running now. However, your employees may have different ideas. Do you know what your employees are thinking, and are you worried about keeping them?…
Read Full Article about 10 Tips on Retaining EmployeesThis past weekend I was in Penn Quarter, the historic East End neighborhood of Washington, DC, searching for a venerable cupcake store called Red Velvet Cupcakes (highly recommend the vanilla bean cupcake, by the way). En route, I stumbled across the Gallup Organization’s global headquarters. Quite possibly most well-known for their accuracy in analyzing the…
Read Full Article about The 12 Keys to Employee RetentionCorporate social responsibility is a big buzzword in business today with lots of companies claiming that they are great community citizens. However, the reality is that few really go the extra mile to give back to their communities. What these companies don’t realize is that community involvement and corporate social responsibility are highly correlated with…
Read Full Article about Corporate Social Responsibility: Is Your Company a Good Corporate Citizen?Today, I sat down with Rebecca Jacobs, OpenView’s events and organizational guru, to talk more about our own firm’s onboarding process. We quickly realized that the onboarding process is not just about processing paperwork. What it’s really about is successfully orienting and incorporating your newest employees to your organization and your company culture. Truthfully, onboarding…
Read Full Article about Onboarding New Employees — GET ORGANIZED!As a recruiter at OpenView, my favorite part of a phone interview is when the conversation shifts to letting the candidate ask me questions. It’s the part of the interview that can really help me to understand what’s important to the candidate (and if they really want the job I am peddling). I’ve interviewed hundreds…
Read Full Article about Performance Management: It’s Not Just About the Performance ReviewAnd Why You Should be Implementing Them NOW. Every entrepreneur understands that, to be successful, their idea must be unique and creative. But what happens when that idea takes hold? Does every entrepreneur understand the importance of building a culture on these very fundamentals? It’s a very basic idea, but one that seems often forgotten…
Read Full Article about The 4 Basics of Establishing an Innovative CultureGood customers are hard to come by, but when treated right they will reward your business with unconditional loyalty. So why then do so many companies take these customers for granted and elect to disregard and/or de-prioritize customer expectation management in their sales processes? The reality is that too many companies have sales teams that think…
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