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Hiring top talent is only the start. Now you have to work hard to keep your very best talent. Most companies stink at structured and systematic retention of their top performers. Discover how to prevent turnover and keep your best people.
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Employee Happiness Doesn’t Hinge on Salary Increases

Employee Happiness Doesn’t Hinge on Salary Increases | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
Learn more about employee happiness in a new report
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Interesting research once again confirming employee satisfation and happiness is not tied to compensation - which is the gut first impression answer by most CEOs, executives, and managers. Learn more about some of the key elements that drive retention around engagement, happiness, and job satisfaction.

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40 Employee Recognition Ideas For Your Praiseworthy Staff - Capterra Blog

40 Employee Recognition Ideas For Your Praiseworthy Staff - Capterra Blog | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
The human brain thrives on praise, but coming up with ways to achieve that can be tricky. Here are 40 employee recognition ideas that can help.
Barry Deutsch's insight:

Some great ideas in this article on employee recognition. Study after study has proven that employee recognition is one of the most important elements of employee engagement and satisfaction?

 

Give a few of these a spin - let me know which ones worked great and which ones didn't. Vary them quarter by quarter. Try something new for once. Experiment, innovative, challenge your traditional thinking about what employees want for recognition.

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8 Signs an Employee Is Exceptional (Which Never Appear on Performance Evaluations)

Many are good. Some are superior. And a few--just a few--are exceptional. Here's how to tell the difference.
Barry Deutsch's insight:

Great article by Jeff Haden. His point about the characteristics of an exceptional employee not appearing on the performance evaluation - it should be on there. I do agree with his point about proactivity and initiative - this is the number ONE stand-out trait of high performers.

 

Jeff claims these high performers can turn on and off their unusual personalities easily - that they can "self-moderate", or to use an overworked term, they have high emotional intelligence.

 

My experience has been that most of these high flying star employees can't self-moderate and typically have low emotional intelligence. Many times the team is forced to tolerate their behavior (which is a direct conflict with the culture) because the boss is in love with their performance and blind to the chaos they create on the team (or perhaps the boss likes the idea that the employee is their surrogate for shaking things up. Either way, having this lone ranger on the team is not only dysfunctional, but many good employees will not put up with it.

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Sheila Talks Coaching for Results Video Engaged Employees

Hi, I'm Sheila Kamuda with coaching advice for the office and beyond. playniceadvice.blogspot.com Hope you enjoy, leave comments, subscribe, like, share.
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Shelia Kamuda has a nice blog and great little video series about employee engagement, satisfaction, culture, and workplace behaviors. I recommend reading and watching the content she shares.

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At the Heart of Culture: Work That Matters

At the Heart of Culture: Work That Matters | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
To most of us, the phrase Work that Matters infers job satisfaction. Our intended outcome is a workplace culture characterized by lower stress, lower turnover, an
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A large part of employee engagement and satisfaction is work that matters - employees derive a high value from what they do. Do you look closely at these issues for all jobs - particularly those on the front line?

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The benefits of recognizing your team success and the 3 rules of celebration

The benefits of recognizing your team success and the 3 rules of celebration | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
Building a great team is a challenging job. You should take pride in your
team’s success. Take time and efforts to celebrate success with your
people. 
Barry Deutsch's insight:

Very few companies do a great job recognizing and rewarding individual and team performance. I liked this article because it reinforces some very simple ideas about recognition.

 

If you're recognizing outstanding performance, why would your employees continue to go above and beyond the call of duty for you?

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B2B: Using Gamification to Grow Employee Engagement and to Encourage a Culture of Employee Recognition

B2B: Using Gamification to Grow Employee Engagement and to Encourage a Culture of Employee Recognition | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it

I've been exploring how gamification might work in areas like referrals, but had not yet considered it around employee engagement and recognition. Interesting comparison to LinkedIn's gamification strategy of trying to get you to complete your profile.

 

I'm curious if anyone has started to use gamification on the retention side vs. hiring side?

Barry Deutsch's insight:

I've been exploring how gamification might work in areas like referrals, but had not yet considered it around employee engagement and recognition.

 

I'm curious if anyone has started to use gamification on the retention side vs. hiring side?

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Kill the Traditional Performance Appraisal

Kill the Traditional Performance Appraisal | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
  An article in INC magazine recently reminded me that companies are still committed to annual performance reviews. One of the points of the article was that you should be able to adjust a per...
Barry Deutsch's insight:

Another article by a Vistage Chair, David Belden, who indicates the work of Dr. Elliott Jaques is another reason for killing the traditional performance appraisal.


As if there is not enough evidence yet that the traditional performance appraisal is a useless and sadistic tool of management, the work of Dr. Elliott Jaques appears to put another nail in that coffin of a tribal tool used ineffectively and used simply because in many companies that's the way it's always been done.


Wow - what a great argument for continuing one of the most demotivating, life force sucking, turn-offs most employees encounter.


Instead of doing an annual performance appraisal, I agree with David Belden that the communication process around expectations and performance should be more frequent - and the goals, objectives, outcomes, and deliverables should be matched to their capability.


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When was the last time you did a check-up on your culture?

When was the last time you did a check-up on your culture? | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
Employee engagement is all the rage in HR. Multiple studies have shown the correlation between engaged workers and a healthy employee culture.
Barry Deutsch's insight:

I teach a workshop called "You're the Person I WANT to Keep" which is focused on retaining top talent. One of the core elements of that program is understanding how your culture impacts employee satisfaction, happiness, and engagement.


This article refers to a Booz and company study on culture and engagement. Here's a synopsis of the article:


"According to recent research by Booz & Co., employees and managers greatly value company culture, but their organizations are failing to effectively shape the workplace environment. The study revealed that 60 percent of respondents, including executives and employees, believe that culture is more important than their company's strategy or operating model, and 84 percent think it's essential for business success. Unfortunately, over half think that their organization needs to overhaul company culture and only 35 percent believe it's currently managed effectively."



84% think it's critical for success, yet only 35% think it's managed effectively. Is there a disconnect here?


Does someone at your company take responsibility for driving culture or is your culture one of accepting what you tolerate?


Are you about to start losing some of your best talent because they are disgusted by your culture?


Barry Deutsch

Master of Hiring Accuracy

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Prognosticator of Radical Hiring Improvement

 

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Do Nice Managers Finish Last?

Do Nice Managers Finish Last? | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
Bad news for bosses who take an interest in their employees’ emotional well-being: their employees won’t work any harder as a show of gratitude for their support
Barry Deutsch's insight:

I disagree with a couple of assumptions in this article. First, if you care about your employees the article infers you're a "nice manager" and you'll finish last.


You're drawing a correlation between caring about your team  and being "too nice". Wrong assumption. Basic and fundamental to team success is a manager who cares deeply about each person on their team. 


Secondly, "being too nice" has nothing to do with caring. You infer managers overstep their boundaries of professional/personal in caring about their people - and by being too nice might play favorites or overlook work related expectations.


Research going all the way back to Maslow shows that employees want recognition and support from their boss. They need a pat on the back for doing a great job, and deserve it. They need to know their boss is empathic and cares about their success and well-being. The extensive work done by


Gallup on employee satisfaction, engagement, and retention, shows managers who care about their people get better results.


Finally, it doesn't appear to be age related - you can't claim dramatic differences between recent graduates and baby boomers. I can take my own high school girls basketball team that I've been coaching for almost a decade and see the same things: performance goes up when team members know their boss (coach) has their back, and is there to support them. It goes without saying that bosses/managers have to set limits or boundries on professional support vs. personal support.


Working in a sterile, 100 percent task driven environment where it's just about completing the tasks is what drives good people to look for greener pastures.


The problem is that most managers have never been adequately trained in the emotional connection side of working with team members. many times they see their role as nothing more than ensuring completion of the task. They see personal feelings, concerns, and emotional states as not having a place in the work environment. This is just plain unrealistic. As a result, many employees are disgusted, turned-off, and disappointed in the people they work for. One of the major reasons candidates leave companies is because of their boss.


The study appears flawed and does not reflect real world work environments.


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The Next Big HR Trend? Maybe It Should Be More Employee Recognition

The Next Big HR Trend? Maybe It Should Be More Employee Recognition | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
I was in Berlin last week, chairing day one of a HR conference on employee engagement. The quality of presentations were truly exceptional, with a wide variety of insights as HR peers shared …
Barry Deutsch's insight:

In my experience of talking with more than 25000 CEOs and Senior Executives over the last 10 years through our workshops, seminars, and presentations on hiring and retention - most companies in the sub-$100 million level don't get retention.


I'd have to say it's probably less than 1% of all companies in this category. A few do it very well and most stink at it. Why is there such a poor adoption of employee recognition and engagement programs?


1. Even though the research overwhelmingly supports things like employee recognition, most CEOs put it at the bottom of their list of HR/Culture initiatives.


2. There is an arrogance coming off this last job market recession that our employees should feel lucky to have a job with us - why worry about things like recognizing them.


3. Most CEOs and Senior Executives are very task oriented and focusing on the people oriented side of their business - things like having empathy for their employees regarding their need for recogition is foreign to them.


4. Managers and Executives are not compensated or measured on their ability to drive employee satisfaction, retention, or engagement. If I don't get compensated on it, I'm not going to spend time on it.


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How to Avoid Costly HR Mistakes

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People are often a company’s greatest asset. This is especially true for small businesses that count on employees to pull their own weight
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One of the key points the author mentioned in this blog article deserves special praise:


"You also want to reward your employees. Recognition of good performance is essential to a healthy workplace; without it, your business could face retention issues. “Employee turnover can be costly; avoid this issue by providing a unique system of rewards for your best employees,” Huhman says. Rewards don’t always have to be expensive. It can be simple recognition: a thank-you note, an email, a public acknowledgment, a day off, or a gift certificate to a restaurant, etc."



In the hundreds of workshops, keynotes, and talks I give annually, I am always astounded at the small number of companies that have a structured systematic and rigorous process around non-monetary rewards and recognition.


Study after study has proven the importance of implementing these programs to improve employee satisfaction.


Now that the job market is coming back (more opportunities for your subordinates to seek greener pastures), and employee satisfaction is hovering near depression era historical low points, turnover is about to explode in most companies. Now more than ever, you should be RACING to implement these programs.


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How a bad boss is born - lack of training

How a bad boss is born - lack of training | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it

"If you asked all your friends, your family and - I regret to say - your co-workers to talk about their jobs, I think you'd conclude that there is no shortage of bad bosses in this world."

Barry Deutsch's insight:

One of my major soapbox issues that affects retention of top talent is bad managers. The issue is not as much that these managers are toxic or dysfunctional (although we've all worked for those types before), it's more along the lines of poor training and development.


Most newly minted managers and supervisors are ill-equipped to be effective at transitioning from individual contributor role doing technical work to supervising others doing the work. The company did nothing to groom, educate, prepare, test, challenge, simulate what it would be like to be a manager.


It's a catch-22. If the only managers who are effective are those that have proven the ability to do it in other companies, how do new managers get a chance to prove themselves.


We will not solve this dilemma until you decide to start investing heavily to prepare the next generation of supervisors/managers to take on the responsibility of management. Just because you are outstanding at doing the technical work, doesn't mean you're ready or prepared to manage others.


The traditional process of promoting people into management roles without training because they were good at doing the individual work is a GIANT FAIL.


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Disappointing news about employee engagement from Gallup

Disappointing news about employee engagement from Gallup | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
According to Gallup, "51 percent of U.S. employees say they are actively looking for a new job or watching for openings." Think about that for a minute. A little more than half of your employees have at least one foot out the door.
Barry Deutsch's insight:

Gallup just confirmed through their research the statement I've been making for years - that at least 50% of your workforce at any given time is open to a new opportunity.

 

According to Gallup, "51 percent of U.S. employees say they are actively looking for a new job or watching for openings." Think about that for a minute. A little more than half of your employees have at least one foot out the door.

 

What does this say about your current weak efforts at retention? Is it time for a check-up on how your retaining not just your most talented (they leave first), but also everyone else?

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The Benefits of Corporate Team Building - People Development Network

The Benefits of Corporate Team Building - People Development Network | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
   
Barry Deutsch's insight:

This infographic struck a chord with me - it got me thinking and wondering why more companies don't focus on team building. Everyone seems to assume that if you're working in our company, you've got all the "team knowledge" you need to be successful. We all know that's not true - yet our investment in team building seems woefully inadequate.

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The Pursuit of Employee Happiness 

The Pursuit of Employee Happiness  | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
Learn all about Gusto's latest and greatest HR feature — Employee Happiness Surveys.
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Is anyone conducting employee satisfaction or happiness research, surveys, studies in their organization? What tools are using and how effective are these in improving employee happiness? Check out this tool I stumbled across called Gusto - would love to hear your feedback on what looks like a SaaS approach to employee surveys

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The Best (And Amazingly Easy) Thing You Can Do to Increase Employee Engagement

It's easy to blame employees for lack of engagement, but without a clear, simple, and engaging mission statement and strategy--they won't.
Barry Deutsch's insight:

I wanted to slap myself in the forehead after reading this article. Of course, the mission statement is critical to success. It's one of core elements of culture, focusing employees, and gaining alignment around employee motivation and the purpose of your organization.

 

How strong is your mission statement? Is it a difference maker in hiring and retention?

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The New Rules of Employee Performance Management

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Are you up to date on the new performance management approach?
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Out with the outdated sadistic approach to annual performance reviews. This article talks about how progressive companies are rethinking their approach to performance management and ensuring flawless execution among their employees.

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Employee Recognition: Why Do You Need It?

Employee Recognition: Why Do You Need It? | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
We all hear how employee engagement brings long lasting results, but what exactly are these results and how do you effectively reach them?
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3 Nuances in Employee Recognition Created by Dodgy Brain Reactions - The Human Resources Social Network

3 Nuances in Employee Recognition Created by Dodgy Brain Reactions - The Human Resources Social Network | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it

Interesting take on the application of "neuro" thinking as it applies to employee recognition. How would you apply this in your unique organization as it relates to employee recognition?

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Interesting take on the application of "neuro" thinking as it applies to employee recognition. How would you apply this in your unique organization as it relates to employee recognition?

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Hiring Mistake #1: Your Job Description is Worthless

Hiring Mistake #1: Your Job Description is Worthless | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
In my last post, I mentioned that I would take the Study we did within the Vistage/TEC CEO and Senior Executive Community on Hiring Failure before we wrote our book, and explore the Top Ten Reasons
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I posted this article on the LinkedIn Publishing Platform. It talks about why hiring fails over 50 percent of the time, and why it represents the number 1 reason for hiring failure. Fix it and hiring is simple. Don't define success up-front and be doomed to a hiring process based on luck and hope.


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Prognosticator of Radical Hiring Improvement

 

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Dismal Employee Satisfaction - Can You Fix It?

Dismal Employee Satisfaction - Can You Fix It? | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
Every company wants to know how they can create and sustain a profitable culture that attracts and retains top talent.
Barry Deutsch's insight:

Another blog post reconfirming the studies that show dismal employee satisfaction levels. In my own research I've noted that most of these studies over the last few years peg employee satisfaction, engagement, happiness at sub-25% levels.


This either means an explosion of turnover as the job market heats up - or extremely poor execution, impact, and productivity from your existing workforce.


Here's the comment by the author:


"some studies exposed disturbingly low employee engagement rates. Best companies are figuring how to engage top performers by helping them map their career paths and develop desired knowledge and skills. They do this through professional development classes, executive coaching and training for managers who need to understand how they can spot potential talent and support employee growth."


There were a couple of huge points in this paragraph. First, are you helping your top performers to achieve their work dreams and visions. Are you sitting down with them, discussing their ambitions, desires, expectations, and needs? Are you laying out a career development plan or an annual learning plan?


If you're not having this conversation and being proactive in career mentoring your best performers, I'll suggest that friends, former business associates, and recruiters are having this conversation constantly with your best talent. Wouldn't you rather be driving that bus?


Secondly, the vast majority of your executives and manages stink at understanding what the needs are of top performers. They've never been trained how to spot, develop, encourage, challenge, and stimulate the best people on their team. A few intuitively get it and the rest suffer by having great talent "fire" their boss (leave to seek greener pastures). Shouldn't you be training all your executives and managers how to be great at career mentoring and coaching top talent? Why leave it to just a few of your managers - why shouldn't every single one of them possess this skill?


What's your action plan to raise employee engagement, satisfaction, and happiness through improved career mentoring?


Not only is this concept critical to retaining your best employees in the next few years, it's a fundamental element of recruiting great talent.


Barry Deutsch

Master of Hiring Accuracy

Doctor of Hiring Failure and Pain

Prognosticator of Radical Hiring Improvement

 

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Do You Prevent Top Producers from Defecting?

Do You Prevent Top Producers from Defecting? | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
In a low-growth market, aggressive banks are seeking to grow by poaching top performers from rivals. There are effective ways to keep top talent on board.
Barry Deutsch's insight:

It's interesting that the title of the article infers a series of recommendations on how to prevent people from leaving - but instead doesn't offer a single recommendation other than the inference of people getting more money to make a change.


I'll suggest that in looking at over 250,000 potential candidates over the last 25-30 years, my partners and I have identified 3 key reasons why people start looking or are open to "greener pastures" at your competitors - in this sequential order:


  1. Lack of Opportunity which could be defined as learning, impact, and becoming something better
  2. An ineffective, toxic, weak boss. Top performers want to work for top leaders.
  3. A bad company. The company culture is rotten or the company lacks vision to move forward.


The real question for you to consider is:


As the job market heats up and opportunities for "greener pastures" become available, do you run the risk of loosing some of your best performers since you're not paying attention to "engagement" and stuff Abraham Maslowe talked about over 50 years ago.


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Should You Take It Personally When Your Star Employee Resigns?

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Your top employee has resigned. What do you do?
Barry Deutsch's insight:

Illiana Snow raises a very good point in her article about managers taking it personal when employees resign.


The bad news is that they should take it personally. Right behind leaving for a lack of substantive job content - the number 2 reason employees leave is their boss.


Unfortunately, most bosses suck at the process of being a boss. No one gave them training, guided them, showed them best practices, and encouraged a continual development of being a better boss.


Most bosses are just going through each day with a style that they've been using since 1968. Maybe it worked in one environment, but not this one. Their like a horse with blinders on. They have no clue whether what they are doing is effective - it's just "who they are".


In my executive search practice, I will ask managers and executives how they get better at the process of managing their team - the answers border on being downright comical to non-existent. They're stunned:  "wait a minute, you mean I'm supposed to work on being a better boss?"


Is it any wonder why so many candidates leave companies because of their boss? Go ahead and take it personally the next time your star leaves - perhaps it will serve as a wake-up call!


Barry Deutsch

IMPACT Hiring Solutions HIRE and RETAIN Top Talent

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The One Question to Ask in an Exit Interview

The One Question to Ask in an Exit Interview | Retain Top Talent | Scoop.it
Exit interviews can provide useful information for management--if only HR asked the right questions, experts say.
Barry Deutsch's insight:

Employees primarily leave jobs for a lack of opportunity (lack of learning, impact, and becoming something better - we call this the LIB Curve). We could also put this into the context of what Maslow wrote about over 50 years ago.


Being engaged, learning, growing, having impact has not changed in over 50 years. Yet, must companies stink of providing opportunities for learning, impactful work, and helping their employees become something better (realize their career dreams).


Secondly, after opportunity, employees leave because of their boss. When employees lose confidence and trust in their immediate supervisor - one foot immediately goes out the door.


I've worked with thousands of companies over the last 25 years and I've got to admit that I am very disappointment in the basic management capability of the vast majority of companies.


Finally, employees leave because of the culture of your company - not a learning based organization, no fun, dysfunctional co-workers that are tolerated.


Given these 3 elements, which most companies do a very poor job of working on and developing good systems and processes - is it any wonder over 50% of all employees in your workforce in any given month are trying to see if the grass is greener somewhere else?


Barry Deutsch

IMPACT Hiring Solutions HIRE and RETAIN Top Talent

http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/blog

 

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