Let's Plant More Seeds Today. A Bountiful Harvest Will Result!

Friends:

Here are today's "four ways" which, if followed imaginatively, will help retain key employees and slow down the brain drain:

Seed #9: Conduct "stay" interviews regularly. Great employees like to hear about what they can do to make the company even better. Regular "stay" interviews provide a great opportunity for leaders to compliment their high performers on their great work and also to
inspire them to do more to take the company to the next level.

Seed #10: Create the kind of environment where people can do their best work. Is your work environment restrictive and stifling or is it freeing and innovative? To show its appreciation for innovation, Google allows their engineers to spend 20 percent of their time on independent projects.

Seed #11: Help employees to achieve work/life balance. In today's high-tech world, it is easy to set employees up so that they can work from home. Employees in today's workforce saw their parents give their lives to companies .... only to be laid off at age 55 without much hope for finding other employment! Today's working generation seems to share the sentiment of we're not going to let that happen to us! .... "Providing flexible hours or allowing your employees to work from home shows them you value the lives they have outside the office," says Sujansky.

Seed #12: Insist that your employees take vacations. .... Several studies show that employees who take vacations
are less stressed, lead a healthier lifestyle, and are even at lower risk of having heart disease. All of that means lower healthcare costs for you. .... "Here's a great opportunity for you to lead by example," says Sujansky. "Take time off to show them how important you think it is, and when they are enjoying their own time off don't call them with problems that can wait until they return. .... If they are able to completely disengage, they will come back with renewed spirits—which, in turn, will help them reach their company goals."

That's it for today! Plant these seeds, and the harvest will be abundant and bountiful!

We look forward to your visit tomorrow, and to your comments. Thank you!