Employee Retention

Retaining top talent and reducing turnover is a huge challenge for many employers. Check out our selection of resources to discover what you can do to keep your people.

Blogs

Healthy workplaces make for happy and effective employees
  • CEO Concerns
  • Healthy workplaces make for happy and effective employees

    It’s official – the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the UK body that looks after public health, says that if you look after the wellbeing of employees…

    Prêt a manger finds a happy team means great results. Image by Justin Goring, Flickr CC
  • CEO Concerns
  • A happy team makes for tasty results

    If you were listening to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning you may have heard the chief executive of Pret a Manger sounding very happy about the…

    Will your performance review software see trouble coming?
  • CEO Concerns
  • Too much of a good thing? Will your performance review software find it?

    Can you have too much of a good thing?  That’s the question being asked in the employee engagement group on LinkedIn just now.  It’s an intriguing question, because employee engagement…

  • CEO Concerns
  • How WeThrive prevents performance appraisal process mistakes

    Number 2 in Eric Jackson’s top ten list of performance appraisal process mistakes on Forbes is: everything’s perfect – until it’s not and you’re fired.  The unfortunate employee carries on doing…

  • Employee Engagement Blogs
  • How do you motivate sales people and set the right targets?

    How do you motivate sales people?  Tradition holds that money is the way.  Forget all the research showing high-value rewards make people stupid, reduce productivity and encourage dishonesty – sales…

  • Employee Engagement Blogs
  • Team leadership and employee engagement

    What is team leadership and how do leaders nurture employee engagement? For leadership to work, the leader has to be someone the others will follow. So how do you become…

  • Employee Engagement Blogs
  • Negative feedback and Employee Engagement

    When is it right to give negative feedback, if you want to preserve employee engagement?  Here’s a humdinger of a problem – you want your people to learn from their…

  • Employee Engagement
  • What is the current state of employee engagement

    I hate the way the word ‘around’ is used, even in official documents, when basic work has not been done. “We’re doing some work ‘around’ x at the moment” often…

  • Employee Engagement Blogs
  • Employee Engagement : How Is It Defined?

    It’s official – employee engagement is low, and getting worse.  If your company is able to work out how to improve it your employees put in more effort, are more…

  • Employee Engagement Blogs
  • Employee Engagement – 1 in 3 Are Truly Engaged!

    Did you know that social media use at work costs employers over 2.25 Billion dollars a year in lost productivity?  Or that employees who smoke are away from their workstations…

  • Employee Engagement Blogs
  • What is staff engagement and why is it such a mystery?

    Browse the web for ideas on ‘staff engagement’ or ‘how to motivate a team’ and you’ll come across a lot of phrases like ‘discretionary effort’ – the extra enthusiasm and…

  • Employee Engagement Blogs
  • What do the Olympics tell us about what motivates people?

    Of all the thousands of hours of broadcasting and millions of words written about the 2012 Olympic Games, I think one paragraph stands out as having something really important to…

    Webinars

  • Employee Retention
  • Thurs, 2nd Dec 2021 at 14:00 – 14:40 PM GMT

    5 Steps to Prepare for the Looming Retention Crisis

    Retaining top talent has been a significant challenge in financial services during the last decade, with trust, engagement and happiness on the decline.

  • Employee Retention
  • Why your people leave company, and what you can do about it

    The average employee costs an SME £12,000 to replace, so what can your business do to ensure you retain key staff who are critical to business success in 2020 and beyond?

  • Employee Retention
  • Becoming the employer of choice to attract top talent

    Business psychologist Piers Bishop of WeThrive and Strategy Director Belinda Gannaway of Fathom XP, will discuss what employers can do to become the employer of choice as well as strategies and insight on how to make it happen.

    White Papers

  • Employee Retention
  • How to protect your business from “The Great Resignation”

    Download our white paper to learn what causes turnover and the steps you can take to fix it. Resignations are at a 20 year high with employees quitting in droves,…

    one on one meeting remote
  • Employee Experience
  • Accounting for people

    This Whitepaper analyses the problems faced by the Accounting industry and how you can help your staff enjoy their work so they want to stay.

  • Employee Retention
  • Why your people leave, and what you can do about it

    The average employee costs an SME £12,000 to replace. What can you do to ensure you retain key staff who are critical to business success in 2020 and beyond?

    Guides

    employee engagement barriers
  • Employee Engagement
  • Employee Engagement Barriers During Covid-19

    Employee engagement barriers should be concerning for all employers. Anything that hinders your people from doing their job effectively will have ultimately have negative consequences. During Covid, we’ve seen many…

  • Employee Experience
  • Personal and Professional Development Guide

    The way we work has been shaken up for good and personal and professional development is on the rise. Covid-19 has forced people to develop new skills, or risk being…