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4 Reasons to Stick with Stay Interviews
“She sighed. Mark, her best performer, was resigning. She knew that he had some issues–didn’t everyone? But she didn’t realize the extent of the
4 Ways You Can Motivate Drivers to Improve Efficiency
Successful trucking organizations understand that operational efficiency depends on many factors, including driver motivation. Efficient operations require not only top-quality equipment, expedient systems, as
5 Best Practices for a Successful Exit Interview Survey Strategy
Employee turnover is a vital metric in every organization’s workforce planning. If you don’t measure and address it, it won’t improve. Exit interview surveys
7 Interviewing Tips to Improve Cultural Fit
Today I searched #culture on LinkedIn, and there were over 450 results posted in the last 24 hours. This is not at all surprising;
All About Manager Feedback: 5 Tips & Best Practices
Managers have a critical impact on engagement and retention in the workplace. At their best, good managers know how to support their employees and
An Overview of Workplace Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace creates an environment where all people can feel accepted and valued. When people feel accepted and valued, they
Are Your Driver Managers Dictating or Managing
It’s no mystery that quality driver managers pay off in the form of productive, safe drivers who will stay with your company. But how
Benefits of Confidential Surveys vs. Non-Confidential
When you want to measure the thoughts and opinions your employees have about their work experiences, you’ll want to consider conducting employee surveys. Employee
Benefits of Effective Leadership Communication
Taking action to improve your organization can often require a significant investment of time and money. However, there are some opportunities that are relatively
Benefits of Exit Interviews through a Third Party
Why are My Employees Leaving? The Benefits of Exit Interviews So many of our employees are leaving and we need to find out why.
Best Practices for Pre-Survey Success
So much needs to happen before sending out the first invitation of an employee survey, and following the proper steps means fewer headaches down
Best Practices for Survey Question Writing
Employee Surveys You want to measure the quality of your employee experience, but aren’t sure where to start. Writing and administering a survey is
Best Time to Reach Out to Exiting Employees
Employee turnover. It’s one of those things nobody wants to talk about but says so much about the overall health of your organization. Tracking
Build Trust with Your Direct Reports
The relationship between a supervisor and their direct report is one of the most important in your organization. How you manage (or mismanage) this
Building a Better Bond with Your Drivers
With the day-to-day focus on meeting goals and the bottom line, the personal component of our jobs is often left behind. Think about the
Cascading Your Engagement Survey Data
Communicating Employee Engagement Survey Data Your employee engagement survey has closed, and you have your data, you have come up with an action plan
Communication Best Practices for Exit Interviews
Imagine a supervisor is contacted by one of the best employees they’ve ever had who recently left the organization. The former employee informs them
Communication is Key to Engagement Survey Success
When it comes to having a successful engagement survey project, a strong internal communication plan is critical. For an engagement survey to be effective
Communication Tips for New Hire Surveys
When your company commits to having a successful new hire onboarding survey project, you need to commit to having a strong internal communication plan
Continuous Listening [Part 1]: Definition and Benefits
Raise your hand if you love it when someone starts an article or a speech with “Webster’s Dictionary defines….” Right. Me neither. Instead of
Continuous Listening [Part 2]: Building and Executing on your Strategy
In my last article on continuous listening, I provided clarity on the concept of continuous listening and gave examples of what a solid strategy
Continuous Listening [Part 3]: Transforming Survey Data into Action
Three steps to an effective continuous listening strategy: Ask, listen, and act. Such a simple concept, right? Easy to talk about, easy to understand…
Continuous Listening Tips for Survey Success
Organizational success depends on agilely responding to the wide variety of factors in the business world. Market conditions, regulations, competitors, customers, suppliers; each of
Determining the Cause of First-Year Nursing Turnover
The average hospital loses between five and seven million dollars a year due to nursing turnover costs. This Ohio Travel nurse agency says that
Developing Employees Along their Growth Curve
As a manager, I’m in charge of a variety of departmental responsibilities. Given my role, these can include anything from financial oversight to compliance
Do Those With an “Axe to Grind” Skew Exit Data
Employee Exit Interview Myth As the leading provider for retention strategies and exit interview surveys, we occasionally hear prospects object to exit interview surveys
Employee Well-Being and Mental Health Driving Down Employee Productivity and Engagement
As we approach almost a year since the start of the pandemic, a lot of things have happened to help address its impact at
Establish Employee Roots in Your Organization for Better Retention
Improving Employee Engagement and Retention It’s no secret the employee retention rate for engaged employees is higher than that of less engaged employees. According
Gaining Real Results from Your Employee Engagement Data
Everybody is talking about employee engagement. It’s no wonder why: the statistics and research around engagement aren’t very positive. In fact, according to some
Get Them Back: How to Rehire Employees with Ease
Most employers would agree that employee turnover is one of the largest issues they face year in and year out. With total replacement costs
Healthcare Compliance and Integrity Issues: How you can be the First to Know
Compliance issues can be problematic in the healthcare industry —HIPAA violations, Medicare fraud, drug diversions, falsifying records, ethical issues, and work environment concerns are
High Job Openings and High Quit Rates Further Tighten Labor Market for Employers
The most recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics was released last week, and its findings make it clear that if employers
How New Hire Check Ins Reduce Turnover
I don’t include the second “real job” I had on my resume. I’d worked there for five days when I turned in my resignation.
How to Get Better Results from Action Planning
Creating transformative change within an organization can be a business leader’s most important and most difficult job. At People Element, we’ve recently started using
How to Get Managers to Act on Survey Data
Employee surveys have become common practice in today’s workplace. Typically, employers use employee surveys with hopes of boosting engagement, improving retention, and increasing workplace
How to Keep New Employees from Leaving in their First 90 Days
Do I stay or do I go? That’s the question employees are asking themselves within their first 90 days. Sure, there’s a point in
How to Provide Professional Development Opportunities When Advancement is Limited
Employee Retention, Satisfaction & Professional Development Opportunities When it comes to employee satisfaction and retention, many companies who work with People Element struggle with a
Improve Engagement with Effective Leadership Communication
Taking action to improve your organization can often require a significant investment of time and money. However, there are some opportunities that are relatively
Know Before They Go
Too Little Too Late Too many companies attempt to save an employee after they have already made the decision to leave. At that point
Leadership as a Factor in New Employee Onboarding
Leadership’s Role in Employee Onboarding The employee onboarding experience is the one of the greatest opportunities in the talent acquisition process to put your
Leading Exit Factors in Healthcare
Healthcare Turnover Are you facing high turnover and trying to determine the root causes of why people are leaving? If so, you’re certainly not
Learning Something New About Your New Hire
New employee onboarding can be overwhelming. There are a number of items you need to “check” off the list to ensure you set up
Making the Most of Your Exit Interview Data
Exit interviews are used by approximately 75% of companies, but as is often with HR programs, they have the tendency to become a “check
Managing a Hybrid Workforce
With the nationwide vaccination rate of adults now above 50%, more of the workforce is making the transition back into the office of their
Managing Generational Differences in the Workplace
Seemingly every student, teacher, employee and manager has an opinion on generational differences and what it means for your organization. Generational differences certainly exist,
More Than An Employee Feedback Platform
Today’s employees want to be heard and have their feedback turn into meaningful change by their company leaders. For employers to get to the heart of
Orientation Alone Isn’t Enough: You Need an Onboarding Process to Keep New Hires
The Importance of Employee Onboarding We frequently hear “We already have an employee onboarding process.” in our discussions at People Element. By digging deeper,
Out of sight shouldn’t mean out of mind: Keeping remote workers engaged
The workplace has changed a lot in the last five months. And while some companies are now having employees return to the office again,
Perceptions of Healthcare Leadership
What are exiting healthcare professionals saying about their former employers? At People Element, we investigate this by looking at how exiting employees rated leadership
Six Steps to Meaningful Change
Data is pretty easy to come by these days. When it comes to employee feedback, it seems like the challenge has shifted from “How
Staying or Leaving: Learning From Driver Feedback
Ideally, trucking companies would retain most of their drivers, and not have to worry about things like a strong exit interview process. While some
Strengthen the Supervisor-Employee Relationship with Regular Check-Ins
Regularly meeting with your staff can easily drop to the bottom of the list, especially with how many responsibilities supervisors have these days. The
Supporting Your Workforce Through Employee Feedback Surveys
People Element sits down for a conversation with the Director of People Engagement at Forward Air to discuss their success through Employee Feedback Surveys.
Taking Your Workforce Data Into Action
If you’ve been listening to the news lately you’ve most likely heard that data in itself is the holy grail for businesses everywhere. However,
The Administrator’s Guide to Retaining Nurses
The demand for nurses is rising every year. The American Nurses Association estimates that by 2022, there will be a need for 3.44 million
The Evolution of Employee Engagement
Now that we have entered a new year, it’s often customary to reflect upon the year being left behind. Many things can be said
The Great Resignation’s Fallout: What Happens Next?
Inc. recently published an article on the Great Resignation, or “The Big Quit” as they aptly named it. So many companies and HR teams
The Hidden Cost of Nursing Turnover
Turnover can range in severity from a nuisance to a business crippling problem. When it comes to healthcare, turnover is a critical issue. Having
The Impact of Baby Boomers on the Nursing Shortage
The nursing shortage in the U.S. has been at a near-crisis stage for several years. The largest portion of the healthcare workforce are America’s
The Power of Listening
What if you could read people’s minds? Imagine the power you would have with that information. Better yet, what if you could easily access
The Real Reasons Drivers Quit
Are you facing high driver turnover in your trucking organization and trying to determine the root causes of why people are leaving? Understanding what’s
Tips for Managing Compliance Issues
Your organization may have defined processes and outlets for employees to share compliance issues with your HR team. If so, you’re already on the
Using Inboarding to Develop and Engage Your Employees
There is a lot of focus and effort on the employee onboarding process, but an often overlooked and vital step to employee retention is
Using New Hire Check-Ins to Improve Early Turnover
First impressions are important since they are impossible to reverse and set the tone for everything that follows. The first few months on the
Ways to Improve the Onboarding Experience
How to Improve the Employee Onboarding Process Resumes were reviewed, candidates screened, interviews conducted, job offer made and accepted. The open position has been
What Can You Learn from Drivers Who Don’t Take the Job?
Nothing is more frustrating than spending time, money, and resources on recruiting a driver, taking them through the application process, running the proper background
What Makes Your Employees Want to Stay?
Why do people decide to stay in their job? There are many answers to this question – almost as many as people employed. Everyone
Why Do Great Employees Quit
Healthcare executives are never happy when they learn that someone is leaving their job and a replacement needs to be found. After all, the
Why Driver Feedback Alone Isn’t Enough to Lower Turnover
Hear this lately? “We guarantee we will lower your turnover by 10%!” “On average our clients lowered their turnover by 15%!” Given current driver
Why Employee Engagement Increased in 2020
For many businesses, the biggest win in 2020 was simply staying in business. Not everyone got to celebrate this, and those who did should
Why Employee Engagement Matters in Healthcare
Employee engagement seems to be the latest buzzword in healthcare and beyond. Many have jumped on the bandwagon, claiming that an engaged workforce is
Why Money Won’t Motivate Your Nurses
It’s another one of those days. Kathy has more patients than she knows what to do with, and each one is demanding in a
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