Employee Retention Tips and Strategies

Are You an Employer of Choice?

If you’re doing business in Connecticut today—and plan to in the future—becoming an employer of choice is a strategic imperative.  Hiring the right employees, developing your employees, and retaining them are essential core competencies of a competitive organization.

10 Ways to Become an Employer of Choice

1. Devise an excellent recruiting process that not only identifies talent, but also positions your company as an employer of choice.
2. Give your new employees a comprehensive orientation.  Employees that voluntarily leave a company within the first six months of employment often do so because of the way they were treated during their first week of employment.
3. Assess your existing people to make sure their current skills and desires are deployed appropriately. Job match is crucial.  And matching a person's behaviors, motivators, as well as personal talents are all very crucial.  Excellent employee and candidate assessment tools exist - see this sample candidate assessment tool.
4. Give your supervisors leadership training and coaching on how to manage their people, in good times and in bad.  Leadership and communication coaching are essential especially when times are challenging.  See this sample leadership and communication coaching tool.
5. Define performance goals for your organization and for all employees. Then hold people accountable for performance against the plan.
6. Develop employee retention plans.  Pay attention to star performers and average performers alike. Be sure to monitor those employee retention plans in a proactive way.  Don’t notice your steady, reliable people only after they leave.
7. Focus on creating and nurturing a “great place to work” culture.
8. Instill pride in your organization—its mission, products, and people.
9. Recognize, value, and respect your employees.
10. Provide constant opportunities to do meaningful, challenging work.
    
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