HERE TODAY, HERE TOMORROW   Transforming Your Workforce from High-Turnover to High-Retention   Gregory P. Smith, MS

The Complete Employee Retention Guide on Attracting and Retaining Your Top People

Despite economic changes, the issue of employee retention is here to stay. The labor shortage that plagued employers at the height of the economic boom has not vanished. It may be off the radar now, but it is returning strong as ever.

Successful organizations realize employee retention is integral to sustaining their leadership and growth in the marketplace. Most businesses focus on employee retention when employee turnover starts to increase. However, good organizations make employee retention a core element of their talent management and organizational development strategy. Those that fail to make employee retention a priority are at risk of losing their top talented people to the competition.
 

Here Today, Here Tomorrow shows people how to create work environments that attract, retain, and motivate their workforce to higher levels of performance. The book outlines the eight elements of a high-retention workplace, provides a detailed, step-by-step retention strategy, and shows you how to implement it.

It also offers dozens of case studies and hundreds of tips and ideas from a wide range of industries and businesses. This information will help you reduce turnover costs, improve retention, and increase job satisfaction.

Employee Retention is Less Expensive Than Replacing Them

Two Important Themes Permeate this Book. First, retention matters. A continual effort to replace departing workers—keeping the revolving door full, instead of stopping it altogether—is bleeding businesses dry. It’s expensive to constantly replace people. The cost of attracting, recruiting, hiring, training, and getting new people up to speed is tremendously more costly and more wasteful than most realize.

Second, productivity is directly tied to retention. Companies with high turnover are at risk for low productivity. Studies from the Gallup organization show employees who have an above-average attitude toward their work will generate 38 percent higher customer satisfaction scores, 22 percent higher productivity, and 27 percent higher profits for their companies.

In this book, you’ll read about companies with work environments that attract and retain people—and where people are willing to give their best. These environments aren’t expensive. In fact, they save money.  In most cases, they improve retention and productivity without lavish salaries or bonuses. And they certainly lower the expense of continually hiring and training new people.

Loads of Practical Advice and Tons of Retention Tips at Your Finger Tips

Unlike many books that only offer theory and generalities, this book provides practical advice and ideas from a wide range of businesses and industries. The author is a management consultant and works with hundreds of organizations. Here Today has captured this experience and makes the application process simple for you.

If you are a manager, you will appreciate the many tips provided to you at the end of each chapter. They will help you become a better manager.

Here Today, Here Tomorrow Will Show You How To . . .

• Implement an employee retention strategy to retain your top people

• Use recognition programs to improve motivation and reduce turnover

• Design an effective employee orientation program to reduce new employee turnover

• Improve cooperation and reduce conflict between the Gen X, Y, and the Baby Boomers

• Become an employer of choice organization

• Use creative incentives to get people to work harder and stay with you longer

• Give people more meaning and purpose at work

• Improve communication in your organization

• Use "People Development Charts" to create career ladders in your company

• Use employee engagement programs that energize and engage your workforce

• Understand the critical benefits working parents expect and need from their employers
  and much more . . .