Keeping your employees engaged in their work is an ongoing component in the employee life cycle. This directly leads to their retention and success in the organization. Retaining your employees and how that impacts overall culture are important to stay on top of. For many organizations, conducting exit interviews has been a consistent practice in gaining useful knowledge as to why employees chose to leave. While the details obtained in exit interviews can assist in making appropriate adjustments or changes, they are not proactive in retaining top talent. By the time you are conducting an exit interview, it is too late. One important strategy to implement that will assist in collecting valuable information from employees is stay interviews. Stay Interviews Let’s look at the stay interview process in detail. You’ll want to start with a predetermined list of questions. Such as: Job Satisfaction What keeps you working here? What would…

More employers are turning to workforce planning to provide the necessary information to better manage their talent pool to meet their organization’s strategic needs. The events of the past two years have encouraged more organizations to pay attention to workforce planning as they prepare for the opportunities and possible disruptions ahead. A 2021 survey by McKinsey & Company found 33 percent of executives planned to spend more resources on workforce planning this year, ranking it as a higher priority than recruiting or training initiatives. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) defines workforce planning as a process for organizations to analyze their current team members and determine what steps are needed to meet current and future staffing needs. The process also seeks the most cost-effective and efficient approaches to recruit new employees and retain existing staff members. Most organizations conduct annual workforce planning as the end of the year draws…

Fostering Company Culture in a Remote Environment It has been a challenging year for all of us, to say the least. Many businesses were forced to make the move to a remote environment, while others have maintained in-person operations with serious restrictions on gatherings. While business as we know it has changed significantly since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, there is one thing that has not: the human need for social interaction. No matter where your company is in this process, here are some ideas to re-build team engagement while working remotely. Host a Virtual Game Virtual games might feel overdone at this point but there are still plenty of ways to make them feel fresh! If you plan to host the game yourself, take advantage of the features available to you within the virtual meeting software you are using. For example, we’ve found that there is an increase…