Employee retention strategies

By cultivating soft skills in your employees, you’re ensuring their continued relevance and your company’s continued success.

If retaining valued employees is important to you, ask your people directly what they need to become even more engaged.

Displaying commitment to your staff inspires them to be dedicated as well and reduces unwanted turnover.

Improve how you integrate new members to the team. Here are some of the things that have worked for me over the years.

Are we ever close to finding the answer of what demotivates employees from performing their job?

Companies shouldn’t forget about the employees who might not be considered ‘stars’.

Encourage your employees to be engaged and, in turn, to love working for your company. Here is how:

A chat with Chantal Westgate, Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour at McGill University with more than 15 years of experience teaching students and consulting with numerous large corporations about how to provide effective feedback.

In business, it turns out that making a proper exit is as important as a proper entrance.

When employees believe in you, they tend to be more loyal and productive. Is your workplace trustworthy?

Many companies appear to have trouble identifying the reasons why employee dissatisfaction is so high. Here are some tips to stop turnover and talent loss:

Getting a Canadian to uproot for a job is like pouring thick maple syrup: eventually it’ll move, but it needs heat to speed things up.

There are a slew of resources out there when you’re on the employee side, and you’re looking for signs that you’re about to be let go. We’re flipping the question and looking from the top, down – is your team rock star plotting his or her escape?

Is voluntary turnover at your company high? Then it’s time to get a handle on why people leave their jobs. You may be surprised at some of the reasons.

Economic uncertainty can paralyze a workforce. So before productivity falls (and survival mode takes over), you may want to bolster your staff’s motivation.

Motivating employees in your small business needn’t cost a fortune. You already have built-in advantages such as fewer layers of management to navigate, and a sense of belonging that can be harder to find in bigger companies.