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5 Companies Tell Us
How They Retain Their Best Talent
Sara Sutton Fell
The 2015
job market outlook is unequivocally positive.
Even with a dip in February employment numbers from
severe weather across the nation,
the overall prospects for job seekers are the best
they’ve been in over a decade,
with job openings at their highest level in 14 years.
That’s why employers need to improve
their old strategies to retain the best and brightest in
their workforce.
With 5 million open jobs in the market,
professionals -- even those who seem happily employed -- may be tempted to seek
greener pastures in a new job. When looking at why people are leaving their
jobs in 2015, the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
finds that “voluntary quits” are far outpacing layoffs. Fifty-eight percent of
those leaving jobs right now are doing so voluntarily, compared with only 35 percent
being laid off.
From 2007 to 2011, these numbers were almost identical.
What does this mean for employers? Retaining your
workforce will be harder this year
but adopting new retention strategies can ensure your
grass is just as green
as what lays on the other side of the fence.
Representatives from five companies discuss the
interesting ways
they attract and retain employees.
Equip your teams to collaborate seamlessly from anywhere.
What is the daily experience of your typical employee
when it comes to collaboration?
Whether in the office or working remotely, communication
delays, malfunctioning software
and less-than-intuitive systems, leave employees feeling
frustrated. Companies should focus on upgrading and streamlining communication
processes to make collaboration fun, not frustrating.
Terilyn Monroe, director of global employee and community
engagement at Inuit,
says the goal of collaboration support should be “to
foster high-performing teams
by enabling them to collaborate from
anywhere...increasing engagement and satisfaction.”
Kaplan Test Prep’s COO, Lorin Thomas-Tavel, recommends
putting forth a “greater effort
in fostering communication, developing and keeping teams
connected and cultivating our culture. The effective use of technology is
critical, as technology platforms, channels and tools
serve as the underpinning for enabling these
connections.”
Focus on training and equipping your managers as coaches.
A common HR theory is that employees don’t quit jobs or
companies, they quit managers.
How does your management team compare to your
competitors? Having well-trained managers
will go a long way towards retaining your best employees.
Focus some of your retention efforts
on helping managers be the kinds of leaders that people
want to work hard for.
This may be a shift from managing to coaching.
“A manager shows someone how to do something, such as the
day-to-day tasks for his job
and a coach goes a step further to help an individual
realize his full potential
and maximize positive outcomes,” says Clifton Harski, the
director of training
and national head coach at Fitwall and an Entrepreneur contributor.
How does this help with retention? Says Harski, “People’s
self-worth is often derived from
the importance of what they do for a living, and the
ability to positively affect others
is hugely important and rewarding.”
Offer work-from-home options for your current employees.
Once viewed as a perk, remote work is becoming a normal way of doing
business.
With much of the Northeast still buried under snow,
tornado season beginning in the South
and hurricane season following shortly thereafter for the
Atlantic states, working remotely
is an emergency preparedness requirement for many
companies. At the same time,
from an employee’s perspective, the option to work from
home is a hugely desirable benefit.
Data from Intuit found that 79 percent of full-time workers want
to work from home
at least part of the time. And in 2011, 59 percent of
companies offered telework options
to employees, up from 13 percent in 2006. That’s a huge
increase--is your company keeping up?
World Travel Holdings, a leading cruise company, allows a
reported 70 percent of its employees
to work from home full time. “We place a strong value on
creating an environment
where our employees can work from home, which has been
instrumental in us being able to hire
and retain top talent,” says Debbie Fiorino, senior vice
president of human resources.
And healthcare company Aetna says, “Aetna has used
telework to retain valuable employees
for roughly 20 years.”
As the balance of power in the job market shifts from
companies to professionals,
employers should proactively make changes within their
companies that will directly impact,
and improve, retention efforts. The cost of implementing
these strategies is far less
than the cost of replacing one of your top performers.
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