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How to Develop an Employee Retention Strategy Part 2

You need to consistently try to receive employee feedback, including lost employees, to adjust it further based on what works and what doesn’t. Only then can you hope to have a strategy that will maintain the best employees in the organization. Read more…

Sick Days Rewards – A Small Change for a Big Difference Part 1

If your company is one that uses the “use it or lose it” strategy for sick days, there can be several benefits to changing it to something more advantageous for the employee. The greatest benefit is the ability for it to aid in employee satisfaction. Read more…

How to Use Twitter to Improve Employee Satisfaction

You can have employees bookmark your Twitter page or create work-only accounts and suddenly Twitter becomes more than a piece of social media. It becomes a news-board that is informative to all employees and can go a long way to improve employee morale and satisfaction. All through a simple platform that won’t take much time to use. Read more…

Will Your Employees Tell You if They’re Being Underused? Will You Listen?

If you want to improve your ROI, you have to not only be willing to find out if employees need more work – you have to give it to them. Use what they your employees tell you to your advantage, and see if you can find a way to utilize their abilities elsewhere. Don’t be afraid to challenge employees as well, or give them work to do that isn’t part of their traditional tasks. Read more…

Potential Flaws of Matching Employees with Productivity

Regardless, these all represent potential flaws with matching performance and loyalty – flaws that are almost entirely due to poor performance metrics. Before you can consider launching employee loyalty efforts based on productivity scores, you first need to make sure that all of your productivity and performance metrics are measuring the employees fairly and accurately. Only then can you hope for the data you collect about loyalty to be worthwhile.
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How Useful is an Employee Review? Part 2

It’s clear that the way evaluations take place need to change, both for employee loyalty/satisfaction and for your company to spot the truly great employees. Semi-annual or annual evaluations had their place, but there are better ways to evaluate talent that need to be in effect to ensure that your company is valuing the right people. Read more…

How Useful is an Employee Review? Part 1

For years, businesses have used semi-annual reviews to evaluate employees. A supervisor or several supervisors sit in a room and discuss what the employee did or didn’t do. Often they even ask the employee to fill out a self-evaluation, which is a curious thing to ask an employee to do in its own right, and they sit awkwardly and discuss what the employee has done over the past year. Read more…