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…
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If you’re a business owner in the skilled trades, you’re probably used to feeling like you’re constantly chasing a revolving door. Employees come and go as the wind blows, and skilled trades talent always seems to be in short supply, to say the least. As senior employees start to retire, you need to have people ready to take their place. Many of you might be thinking that this is just…
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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,…
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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…
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It’s nearly the end of 2020, and what a year it’s been. The entire world has changed the way we interact with friends and family, work, play, shop…and so on. For many business owners, this global shift has made 2020 a year of reactivity rather than productivity. It’s been hard for many employers to look beyond maintaining their cash flow, dealing with fewer staff and customers. Plus, they have to…
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Whatever the size of your organization, over time people are going to come and go. And, it doesn’t matter if an employee has been at your organization for 10 months or 10 years; conducting an exit interview is an invaluable way to get honest feedback before he or she leaves. Here are a few stats from Gallup: Ninety-one percent of Fortune 500 companies conduct exit interviews Seventy-one percent of employees…
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