50 One-Minute Tips for Retaining Employees:

Follow Sound Management Advice
Serve First and Lead Second
Establish Your Employee Average Retention Rate
Estimate Your Turnover Costs
Follow All Applicable Federal and State Child Labor Laws
Eliminate Workers Who Won?t
Eliminate Managers Who Can?t
Manage Your Customers

Make First Impressions Count (Orientation)
Understand the Role of Starting Wages
Inform Employees About Their Total Compensation
Explain the Long-Term Benefits of Staying
Share Your Vision
Motivate Entry-Level Employees
Conduct an Entrance Interview
Create Career Ladders

Train! Train! Train! (and Do It Correctly)
Invest in Training
Encourage Employees to Try Your Product or Service
Train Trainers to Train
Reward Your Trainers
Relieve Trainers of Other Job Duties
Conduct Pre-Shift Training

Maintain a Professional Workplace
Strictly Enforce a Zero-Tolerance Harassment Policy
Create a Culturally Diverse Workforce
Make Employee Safety a Top Priority
Ensure Reasonable Accommodations for Disabled Employees
Share Financial Numbers with Employees

Supervise As You Would Like to Be Supervised
Enforce ?On-Time? Policies Fairly and Consistently
Be Careful Not to Over-Schedule
Give Employees a Personal Copy of Their Work Schedule
Seek Out Employee Assistance Programs
Invite ?Fast-Track? Employees to Attend Management Meetings
Implement a ?Catch the Employee Doing Something Right? Program
Conduct an Exit Interview with Employees Who Leave

Encourage Ongoing Communication
Hold Employee-Focused Meetings for Non-Management
Communicate the Benefits of Your Unique Organization
Create an Employee Retention Council
Recognize Employee Birthdays
Make Daily ?Howdy? Rounds

Create a Friendly Workplace
Use Employee Recognition Programs
Build a Great Team and Praise It Often
Write a Personal Letter to Parents of Teenage Employees
Share Scheduling Responsibilities with Employees
Reward Employees Who Work on Non-Scheduled Days
Invite Family Members of New Employees to Visit Your Workplace
Make the Workplace Fun

Help Your Employees Succeed
Identify State-Approved (Licensed) Childcare Options
Reward Success in Each Employee
Recognize Your Employees? Eldercare Responsibilities
Don?t Punish Your Best for Being Good
Go to Lunch
Help Employees Learn About Public Transportation Systems

After completing this course, students will know how to:

To present tips for conducting new-employee orientation and training Describe strategies for maintaining a professional workplace Define ways to maintain positive employee relationships by using ongoing communication and maintaining a supportive and fun work environment Outline the ways in which supervisors can help employees to help themselves become successful Show managers and supervisors how their own feelings, attitudes, and experiences affect their employees and the workplace

Prerequisites