Posts Tagged ‘Retention’
It’s HERE! My New Talent Scarcity Book is ***Free*** For a Limited Time
Over the last year as companies struggled to find good people to hire and fought at the same time to keep their best staff, I knew there had to be a story there. I began digging into the data and found some surprising and potentially alarming details: there is a real talent shortage globally, and…
Read MoreThe Costs and Benefits of Employee One-on-Ones
In most cases, losing weight comes down to eating right and exercising. Creating great relationships means being attentive and caring of the other person’s needs. We know many of these things, yet we struggle with doing them. In an employment context, there’s one thing that we know works, yet it’s not done nearly as often as it…
Read More3 Reasons People Quit (and 3 That Make them Stay)
Research shows that managers believe 70% of the reason people leave a job is due to pay. However, actual data points indicate that nearly 70% of the reasons people quit a job have absolutely nothing to do with pay. This has been true for many years, but it’s been turned upside down in the last…
Read MoreDo People Really Want to Quit Their Jobs? What the Research Indicates
“What do you mean he’s leaving?” I was in a bit of a panic. We were on the verge of delivering a large project to the customer, and I’d just gotten word that one of our senior software engineers was quitting. He was arguably the sharpest person on the entire team, and I didn’t see…
Read MoreDo You Want to Retain the Largest Age Group in Your Workforce?
Data from Pew shows that Millennials make up one in three employees, and based on new data we have from our Great Reprioritization study, we see that this age group has some specific things they crave in an employer that are unique compared to other groups. I have the pleasure of joining Chief Human Resources…
Read MoreTalent Mobility: The Key to Engagement, Retention, and Performance [Infographic]
Our research over the last six years has indicated several practices that set high-performing employers apart from the rest. One of the big ones? Talent mobility. This focus on not just hiring someone for the job they can do today but also for the success they can achieve over time is powerful on so many…
Read MoreHow Guardant Health Leverages Procaire by Praisidio for Employee Retention [Case Study]
In a company staffed with technical specialists, losing even one employee can have an extremely high cost. Software professionals, data scientists, and medical subject matter experts command a high price on the open market, and Guardant Health is prioritizing the retention of these individuals and the rest of its staff through a partnership with Praisidio…
Read MoreTwo Out of Three Employees Want this Talent Practice Right Now
I recently spoke for IAMHR, an event that Phenom put on, and they did a writeup of the session and some of my research. I’m reposting here because 1) it’s valuable and 2) it answers a question you are probably wondering about, which is “how in the world do we keep our people right now?” …
Read More5 Common Challenges with Internal Talent Mobility
One of our specialties at Lighthouse Research is diving into internal talent mobility. We’re talking with vendors that sell the technology. We’re working with companies that are adopting these practices. And in a recent webinar with WorldAtWork, we explored multiple case studies of employers that have innovative or unique approaches to talent mobility. But we…
Read MoreEmployee Retention: Tomorrow’s Recruiting Metric
As HR is increasing its presence as a strategic part of the business, key performance indicators, or KPIs, are becoming a key part of the language for discussing how it is actually performing. Recruiting, in some ways, is actually easier to measure because it is very similar to sales: you either have results or you…
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