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Hewlett, Syvia, 2/17/12
The Labor Department has reported that there has been a small increase in the number of Americans who are quitting their jobs.
Gen X (also referred to as the “middle child”) is one of the generation that will be leaving their current positions. Generally speaking, they are either in the prime of their career, or approaching it and want to lead. With Boomers delaying retirement and so much attention on Gen Y, they have been passed over for promotions and will leave their current company to round out their resumes, and seek leadership positions. We have heard higher numbers than this, but according to the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), 37% of Gen X have “one foot out the door” and are are looking for new positions.
Here are 4 Steps to Help Retain Qualified Gen X Employees:
1.) Job Rotation: Gen X’ers report once they have learned their role, they want something new and fresh. A Sibson Consulting survey shows that more than 1/2 of Fortune 500 companies have begun shuffling potential leaders to provide them with broader experience within their organizations.
2.) Offer Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Gen X is self sufficient (does the term latchey-kids ring a bell?). 70% of Gen X prefers to work independently and 34% would like to become an entrepreneurs. Offer then entrepreneurial opportunities within your company, instead of loosing them-provide them the chance.
3.) Promote Partnerships: Understanding what motivates each Gen X on an individual level will help your organization promote a healthy, productive culture, as we ll as engage, retain your Gen X employees who drive results.
To Learn About The Employee Engagement Workshop: Engaging the Different Generations, Click Here.
Engaging the Generations Workshop
When: Tuesday, March 27, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (7:30 breakfast and check-in)
Where: Forefront Conference Center, Waltham, MA
The Employee Engagement Group, in association with New England Human Resources Association (NEHRA), will deliver its Engaging the Generations workshop. Facilitated by Bob Kelleher, this workshop is a fast-paced, highly interactive day. We will examine the similarities and differences of the four generations and how to engage each for high performance.
The workshop will be held at the Forefront Conference Center in Waltham, MA. There’s plenty of free parking, and both breakfast and lunch will be provided. This workshop is approved for SPHR credits.
Click here for additional information and to register for Engaging the Generations. If you can’t attend this session we can bring this workshop to you! To schedule Engaging the Generations for your organization, contact Stephanie Hogan (781-239-8713).
1/24/12, Palmer, Alex
Incentive interviewed Bob Kelleher, author, keynote speaker, and founder of The Employee Engagement Group. The Employee Engagement Online Library consists of hundreds of trainings, tools, resources, and forms for organizations to deliver to their employees to help bolster employee engagement and focus on talent management.
“It gives them access to training and information that isn’t going to charge them piecemeal every time they want something….The vast majority of HR generalists can do a great job of facilitating any kind of workshop, but they are not program designers, says Kelleher. “You can put your logo on the presentation, change the color template, and presto, you’re rolling out a change management course that the audience thinks took you weeks to put together”.
The library covers such topics as engagement, performance improvement, recruiting, and a whole suite of talent management topics that organizations can utilize to boost engagement and drive business results.
Together, you will:
1. Find out if your current HR professionals are doing their job the right way or if there is more they could be doing
2. Learn how to identify and prepare your internal firm employees to take over your position once you’ve retired (and ensure the future success of your firm by doing so)
3. Find out if you are getting the most out of your training budget (or if you are just throwing good money out the window)
4. Learn how to identify the ideal behaviors and traits for your company employees that can bring in more clients and more profit
5. Meet other firm leaders who are facing the same problems you are, and what they are doing about it
6. Learn the latest HR survey information to see how your firm stacks up against others of similar size, practice areas, markets and geographic locations
7. See how others are linking compensation to performance (and if you should be doing it too)
8. Find out how other firm leaders are dealing with rising health care costs
9. Discover the hidden talents of your Millennials in such areas as social media and firm culture development
10. See if your firm is one of the “Best Places to Work” and if not, how to become one to help boost recruitment and retention rates
The A/E/C Industry Human Resources Summit is a senior level HR-oriented event specifically designed to address the increasing needs and demands of senior leaders of HR, as well as other key executives, like firm CEOs, who deal with the critical employee and firm issues on a daily basis. Through panel discussions and best practices presentations, you will be able to experience successful real-life case studies, and get actual A/E/C survey results, in addition to being able to network and ask your peers for their proven solutions to problems just like yours.
The Employee Engagement Group is passionate about providing free webinars on topics that our clients ask us about the most. These webinars can be found on our Events page, but below is a listing of upcoming January and February. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact John Konselman at jkonselman@employeeengagement.com.
Employee Engagement Resource Library Tours:
January 26th, 1:00-1:30pmET Click Here to learn more and Register
February 8th, 2:00-2:30pmET Click Here to learn more and Register
February 22nd, 1:00-1:30pmET. Click Here to learn more and Register
Other Webinars (as Requested by Clients & the General Public)
Engaging Employees to Drive Results (sponsored by SilkRoad Technology), February 23, 2:00-3:00ET. Click Here to learn more and Register
Coaching for Engagement, February 16, 2:00-3:00ET. Click Here to Learn more and Register
Embracing & Managing Change, March 8, 2:00-3:00ET. Click Here to Learn more & Register
Motivating for High Performance, April 17th, 1:00-2:00ET. Click Here to Learn more & Register
YAHOO News reported on our (TEEG: The Employee Engagement Group) On-Demand, Employee Engagement Library.
Years of experience in OD, Operations, and HR, Kelleher envisioned this solution a few years ago. Today, it is a reality for EEG (Employee Engagement Group) and clients. The on-line, library is a collection of hundreds of award-winning talent management tools, templates, and resources. It includes slide shows, quick guides, facilitation notes, handouts, exercises and all in MS Word, Excel, or PowerPoint so you can easily customize your organization’s look and feel.
Consider this fact: One hour of training requires over 40 hours of design, effort and a price tag of $5,934 per hour of training. Subscribers to the library will save tens of thousands of dollars every year as they have access to these tools.
Perhaps the most intriguing part? After an annual, membership fee, your company owns the materials.
Kelleher states, “Employee development is the cornerstone of employee engagement. Infact, Gen Y believes that career development is 3x more important than the money“.
Cataldo, Pat, UNC Kenan-Flager Business School, 2011
At TEEG, we bleed Employee Engagement! We always seek updated, statistics. Some of the most recent employee engagement statistics include:
Accclaimed employee engagement author, and thought leader, Bob Kelleher reinforces the key steps necessary to build and sustain an engaged culture, and capture the “discretionary effort” of your employees (effort that drives business results!).
Bob is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Louder Than Words, 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results! Bob will outline his 10 essential steps of engagement which are culled from his years of experience working as an award winning internal practitioner, leading engagement initiatives that transformed corporate cultures. These best practices will help firms minimize disengagement while also putting in place steps to maximize employee engagement.
To Learn More and Register, Click Here
In our efforts to engage our employees, we tend to forget that their spouses have huge influence on how they feel about the firm. Spousal influence can make the difference between keeping a valued employee and losing her. Spousal influence can also make the difference between having an employment offer accepted or rejected. Here are 5 specific things you can to do engage your employees’ (and prospective employees’) spouses:
1. When an employee works late into the evening or weekend, send a hand-written note to their spouse thanking them for donating family time to the firm and emphasizing the critical role their spouse had in accomplishing something important for the firm.
2. When an employee helps land a big job, send the spouse a handwritten thank-you note expressing your firm’s appreciation for the spouse’s efforts.
3. When you get an “attaboy” letter from a client expressing extolling the virtues of one of your employees, send a copy of the letter to the employee’s spouse, along with a handwritten thank-you note from you.
4. When interviewing a potential employee from out of town, invite the spouse to come also. In addition, arrange for a local realtor to show the spouse around the town, including some possible areas to purchase a home.
5. When making an offer to a local potential employee, hand-deliver the offer letter to the person’s home on your way home from work.
These seem like small things but they can make a huge difference!
Thanks to David Burstein, our guest blogger from PSMJ Resources.
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Louder Than Words – 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps….That Drive Results, BLKB Publishing released the first edition of Bob Kelleher’s much anticipated book on employee engagement, September 1, 2010. Available now on Amazon.com
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