Human Resources
Improve Your Communication, Improve Your Employee Retention
In manufacturing, one of the biggest and most frustrating challenges is employee retention. For HR leaders in the field, their job requires constant energy spent in recruitment, onboarding, and communicating… and re-communicating. When the labor pool is small, employee retention is all the more critical: when you find good, qualified employees, you want to keep…
Human Resources
3 Reasons It’s Harder Than Ever To Communicate With Your Factory’s Employees
If you’ve been in manufacturing for any length of time, you’ve noticed: it’s harder than ever to get the message across to your team. In the communication age, what should be easier – communicating – feels frustrating and it’s wasting a lot of time in your week. Why is it so much harder to communicate…
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Four Great Ways to Express Your Gratitude to Your Team
The greatest asset of any business is the people who work there, but it’s easy to lose track of opportunities to show your team how much they matter in the day-to-day hustle and bustle. While expressing gratitude and appreciation to your team feels like a soft HR concept, it actually has a significant impact on…
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3 Tips for Communicating More Effectively With Employees
It hasn’t always been such a challenge to communicate well in a corporate setting. Before the days of automatic deposit, there were physical paychecks that employees took home, and you could put the most important messages inside. People weren’t as distracted, either, but with a cell phone constantly in hand, it’s hard to get the…
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The 4 Best Ways to Train Your Staff Using Digital Signage
We have run a small business for the past 35 years, and we’ve learned that when it comes to onboarding staff, you’re never quite done. Once you get someone trained and settled into their role, it’s time to hire and train someone else – either thanks to growth or due to typical turnover. Most small businesses don’t…
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Ensuring Success for New Hires
The first 90 days of a new appointment is make it or break it for your new employees. Your company’s communication strategy is a critical element of your company’s onboarding process if you want to retain the great people you’ve recruited. “Your goal in every transition is to get as rapidly as possible to the break-even point,” writes Michael D….
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Three Secrets to Keeping Your Best Employees
Finding great people, and keeping them, is paramount to your business’s longterm success. Too often, it seems like the conversation on employee retention is mostly directed at salary, and while it’s important to pay your people competitively, there’s more to the story when it comes to employee retention. Have you ever known someone who was stuck in…
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Building a Team: 5 Tips for Effective Onboarding
We’ve written about how expensive it can be to your company to lose your valuable team members to employee turnover. It’s equally important to remember that onboarding a new employee is one of the most important steps to building a successful team. More often than not “bad hires” are actually good employees who weren’t well-integrated into your team. A successful employee onboarding…
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The Real Cost of Employee Turnover
Your business’ most important asset is your employees. Recruiting the right people to your team is one challenge, but keeping them there requires a strong communications strategy and commitment to employee satisfaction. When you do lose an employee, you probably think about the costs of hiring someone new as advertising for the position, possibly contracting a recruitment service, or paying a temporary replacement. In reality,…
Human Resources
Celebrate Your Team!
When you have the right team assembled, you want to keep them. We all already know that its significantly more expensive to hire a new employee than it is to retain a good one, and we’re convinced you can retain your great team without expending tons of extra time, effort, and money. Here are three great ways…