Like this article? PLEASE +1 it! Evan Signature
Evan Carmichael Top Header about About Home Profiles articles Tools forums inspirational quotes About facebook Twitter YouTube Blog

staff retention Tagged Articles



Tea and the Secrets of Staff Retention
Staff retention a concern? That’s particularly a challenge for frontline jobs that are considered to be boring. Today’s employees do indeed want something more – and it isn’t just money. According to the landmark studies in employee motivation spearheaded by Dr. Kenneth Kovach at George Mason University, the number one motivator for employees is interesting work. The real trick is how an employer makes a boring job more interesting. The secret lies in the tea ceremony…

Assessing Your Nonprofit's Culture - Seven Questions To Ponder
Have you ever taken a careful look at the culture of your nonprofit organization? Is the culture positive or negative? Do people enjoy working there, or would they rather be somewhere else? The culture of an organization impacts staff retention, client satisfaction, and the organization's overall effectiveness and success. This article provides seven elements that need to be examined, to help your organization develop and retain a positive, healthy, and thriving culture.

Competing motivations creating confusion
How to incentivise and reward sales people has long been a contentious topic. Too many times I have seen businesses set up incentive programs that reward the wrong behaviours which can affect team morale, client relationships, sales, staff retention, and so on. For instance, I recently met the managing director of a medium sized software business who asked me why would his sales people keep selling one version of their product when they had been instructed to also sell in a newer more comprehensive version of the product.
Are you creating competing motivations in your sales force?
I recently met the managing director of a medium-sized software business, who asked me why would his sales people keep selling one version of their product when they had been instructed to also sell in a newer, more comprehensive version of the product. It turned out that his sales people earned more commission by selling in the older version than the newer version of his product. And the sales people made the bulk of their income from their commissions rather than from their salaries. There you have it. What makes perfect sense to the sales person does not always work for the organisation or the customer.

Other staff retention Related Articles

Clutter
This strategic approach works in any size business and cuts advertising clutter to shreds, resulting in increased margins and staff retention, reduced customer attrition, radically decreased cost of sales and risk and exponential growth.
Solving the Staff Retention Puzzle
Never before have companies been so severely challenged in the area of staff recruitment and retention. Not only are associated costs skyrocketing, and growth and development being hampered, but in some cases a company’s very survival is at risk!
Stellar Supervision Enhances Company Productivity
Looking for a framework to use to provide stellar supervision for each of your staff members? Proactive, collaborative supervision is a key to enhancing each staff member's competencies, commitment and optimum personal productivity. It enhances staff loyalty and reduces turnover because staff members feel their career success is a top priority of their leader. Read on to discover the things you can do to help your staff members excel.
Effective Leadership = Business Success
Leadership plays a vital role in the building of any business and can have a direct effect on the attitudes of colleagues and staff which in turn affects products and services. The attitude and influence of the leader is also reflected in aspects such as staff satisfaction and retention.
Retention: What Can I Do?
Has the market turned on us? Are we actually in a recession? Then why is retention still such a huge issue for all of us? This is one of the most amazing economic states that we have experienced in quite some time. Although there has recently been a huge number of layoffs, there is still a labor shortage. This means that companies are still battling the retention issue. But, we are all quickly learning that having an effective retention program is the right thing to do in any economy because it provides us with a competitive advantage.

Leadership and Keeping Your Customers
This article presents a brief real situation, case study which illustrates the critical importance leadership plays in customer retention, employee retention, customer loyalty and profitability.

Three Ways To Reduce Conflict And Improve Volunteer Retention In Nonprofit Organizations
Http://www.corevalues.com. Volunteer retention, which is not unlike employee retention with an obvious twist involves three strategies for reducing conflict and maximizing volunteer effectiveness.

Pay Attention to Retention
It is imperative to pay attention to retention because when there is turnover, it saps the organization in numerous ways. This article offers some ideas on how to improve employee retention.

Employee Training for Retention
Much is made of training employees to keep them around, but whether employee training for retention works or not remains to be seen with any long-term data. Keeping good employees is tough for business owners, so the carrot of training and improvement is often used to retain quality staff. But is this a cost-effective way to ensure a superior staff or is it too uncertain?
RETENTION OF STAFF
Why is retention of staff such an issue these days? Surely staff are lucky enough to be employed in a full time job without you having to worry about whether or not you’re going to keep them? Retention of staff is an issue that should be ranked priority number one. Regardless of the current economy - we do not have enough skilled staff with the appropriate skill base to fill all the available jobs – and it’s not going to improve. Simply put, the workforce growth rate is declining. In the long run there will be more jobs than workers. The future will be that there is increased competition for fewer qualified workers, which will necessitate an enormous emphasis on the need to retain the workers we already have.

Featured Article

Bottom Footer



Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!
Name:
Email:
Popular Articles

Sales is a Flawed Model

Sales Courage and Resilience

What should your free giveaway be?
Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.