Tag Archives: employee management

Inflation Is Affecting Employee Retention. Here’s What You Can Do About It

November 8, 2022

Retaining your best and brightest employees can be difficult, even in the best of times. But when inflation is through the roof, eroding the value of every dollar, employee retention gets even tougher. This is nothing new, though, as the relationship between inflation and people quitting their jobs has been well-known for years. According to an article from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, research has shown that there’s a…

How to Know When You Should Promote Employees (and When You Shouldn’t)

August 11, 2022

When promoting employees, a lot of employers don’t put enough thought into it. From an employer’s point of view, it usually seems like a good idea, and it feels good to give employees more responsibility, recognition, and compensation. At the same time, when employers promote employees, they tend to feel like they’re doing them a favor, and they expect them to be grateful for the opportunity and the perks that…

4 Tips for Dealing with an Unresponsive Employee

May 30, 2022

In an age when everyone seems to be attached at the hip with multiple different devices, you’d think responsiveness wouldn’t be as much of an issue, especially when it comes to your employer. But for whatever reason, people still seem to have a tough time picking up the phone, responding to a text, or replying to an email. Maybe doing most of our correspondence digitally has eroded our ability to…

5 Ways to Improve Employee Engagement

April 8, 2022

One of the biggest challenges for business owners is trying to keep employees engaged. According to a recent report from Gallup, despite a steady rise in employee engagement over the last decade, between 2019 and 2020, it decreased by about two points. This dip is certainly not a surprise, considering everything that’s happened between 2019 and today. But even with the uptick in engagement throughout the 2010s, in 2020, employee…

How To Retain Your Current Employees (and Survive The Great Resignation!)

October 27, 2021

I’ve been working as an HR professional for decades, and I can tell you that my colleagues and I have never seen anything like the ‘Great Resignation’ we’re now experiencing. American workers are quitting their jobs like never before, and can expect this trend to continue into 2022. When this pandemic started, there was so much we couldn’t predict, and I don’t think anyone predicted this ‘turnover tsunami.’ That said,…

How To Attract New Employees With Better Recruiting Processes

October 5, 2021

Building your ‘A’ team is one of the most important jobs you have as a business owner or manager. Get it right and you are well on your way to a profitable business. Get it wrong, and you’ll waste a lot of time and money on recruiting and training new people, adding unnecessary stress and overwhelm to everyone else on your team. There’s no doubt that attracting and choosing the…

How To Use ‘Stay’ Interviews To Keep Your Top Talent

August 23, 2021

Given the looming turnover crisis experts are now predicting, it’s more important than ever to keep employees happy. But in order to keep them happy, you have to know what makes them happy. And the only way to know what makes them happy is to ask them. A picture is worth a thousand words, and since a ‘stay’ interview is a first-hand picture of what your employee is thinking and…

How To Handle Divisive Politics At Work

June 3, 2021

Our world has changed. In 2021, that’s certainly an understatement. And perhaps nowhere is this more visible than in the workplace. If you’ve noticed that office talk has gotten a lot more political recently, you’re not alone. If you’re wondering about your rights as an employee or responsibilities as an employer or manager, keep reading. Talking Politics At Work There’s no doubt we’ve seen a big shift in how we…

How To Handle Difficult Employees and Poor Performance

May 7, 2021

It’s an all-too-common problem for team leaders and managers: dealing with an employee who isn’t performing well. Maybe they’re always showing up late or calling in sick. They require constant supervision and don’t seem to care about their job, turning in sloppy work. And remote working during the pandemic may be exacerbating the problem. This difficult employee isn’t only a problem for you. It’s a problem for your best employees,…

Why SOPs Will Make or Break Your 2021

January 6, 2021

It’s just three letters, but they’re critical ones. If you haven’t heard the acronym SOP (often referred to as SOPs), it stands for standard operating procedures. SOPs are the documented processes that help employees effectively and safely perform their jobs. Every single employee in your organization needs to understand, complete and follow these step-by-step desk procedures—especially right now. I like to use the example of the fast-food chain McDonald’s: Regardless…