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Increased Profits with Customer Retention

Courtesy of 3SIXTY Interactive Peter Drucker famously said, “the true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer.” Most businesses are intent on the previous and oblivious […]

April 28, 2022

Working While Caring – A New Employer Initiative to Recruit & Retain Talent

By Heather Nezich and Guest Author, Sara Gleicher, LMSW, courtesy of SBAM Approved Partner ASE Two years into the pandemic, businesses large and small continue to struggle to find employees […]

April 20, 2022

Onboarding is the First Step to Retention

By Heather Nezich, courtesy of SBAM Approved Partner ASE According to a new report from Eagle Hill Consulting, recent new hires indicate that their onboarding did not adequately cover many […]

February 23, 2022

Employee Morale, Engagement, & Retention is Top HR Priority

By Heather Nezich, courtesy of SBAM Approved Partner ASE The new State of the Workplace Study from SHRM evaluates how organizations handled key workplace challenges over the last year and […]

February 17, 2022

Rethinking the Workplace to Improve Recruitment and Retention

By Jason Rowe, courtesy of SBAM Approved Partner ASE New sources of talent and changes in skills required to get work done are needed to address ongoing labor market challenges, […]

August 10, 2021

One Workplace at a Time – Leadership Strategies for Retaining Women Employees

By Beki Fraser, originally featured in SBAM’s FOCUS magazine Business leaders in Michigan and across the country are challenged to recruit and retain women employees—and may need to re-invent their […]

March 30, 2021

Retention Worries

By Sheila Hoover, courtesy of SBAM Approved Partner ASE Businesses closing, mass layoffs, and furloughs equal high unemployment rates – 7.5% in January 2021 in the state of Michigan. Managers […]

February 8, 2021

Retaining Talent in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

Courtesy of Ahola Corporation Who could have predicted the disruption and change 2020 brought to the way we work? Now that we are starting to look ahead, past the loss […]

October 27, 2019

Skill Gaps and Exaggeration Make Positions Hard to Fill

Recruiters are confident, and candidates are high quality. And, yet, around the world, recruiters are struggling to fill positions, according to Monster's 2019 State of the Recruiter survey.

October 26, 2019

The Evolution of Remote Work

A recent survey by Flex Jobs shows that 81% of millennials seek work-life balance over both salary and health insurance. Telecommuting was the top choice for flexible work arrangements for millennials.

May 31, 2019

Ghosting: The new norm

A new social norm appears to be highly prevalent in the employer arena: ghosting.

January 18, 2019

Rethinking hiring and training

Most employers have jobs that have certain requirements that must be met before the job can be filled.

December 13, 2018

Does implicit bias still impact HR?

Unconscious or implicit bias, the unconscious attitudes that influence how people perceive and act toward each other, has tremendous impact on employment.

August 30, 2018

Toxic employees – know how to handle them so you don’t lose your best employees

Toxic employees continue to wreak havoc on the workplace.

June 28, 2018

Is boredom killing your employees?

Jobs that are repetitive are necessary, but can become boring, and even unhealthy for your employees.

March 19, 2018

Be aware of salary increase caps when promoting employees

When promoting an employee to a new position, what pay should be established?

March 8, 2018

7 steps to a market-based compensation program

Having a market-based compensation program is one way to ensure that a company remains competitive.

January 26, 2018

Bored employees are jumping ship

According to a new survey by Korn Ferry of nearly 5,000 professionals, being bored and lacking challenge is the number one reason employees will seek a new job in 2018.