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5 Warning Signs to Watch for Healthcare Employee Turnover

5 Warning Signs to Watch for Healthcare Employee Turnover

Has your hospital or healthcare firm been hit by the mass exodus of healthcare workers happening right now? If not, then you are the lucky one. That doesn’t mean that you should relax and wait until you lose your best staff. As we see from the exit interviews we conduct here at Retensa, someone is always waiting to hire them. As travelling healthcare boomed, turnover increased by double-digits across the US Healthcare industry in the last 2 years. Fullow along [...]

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Launch the right strategic workforce strategy with employee surveys to improve employer-employee relationships.

5 Signs You’re in a Dead-End Relationship With Your Employees and What to Do About It

Paul Simon knew, there must be “50 Ways to Leave your Lover”. But painful relationships are not confined to romance; they occur in today’s workplace, surfacing as disengagement and apathy in the daily grind of work. They also can be avoided. If we recognize the signs of a dead end employer-employee relationship and what workforce strategies employers can launch, we can bring the magic back. Bringing the Magic Back to Workforce Strategy Unless you’re from the future, you employ people not [...]

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Employee surveys are necessary for a remote work environment. Measure productivity and engagement to drive culture success.

How to Keep the Love Alive in a Long Distance Relationship with your Workforce

The advent of remote work brings with it a set of challenges. As speed, flexibility, and collaboration become the bottlenecks of today’s workplace, a whole new set of norms exist now. Companies looking to build a high performance culture confront the challenge of sustaining employee motivation without face to face interaction. How can employers make sure their employees stay in love with their work and the company, despite being in a long distance, remote relationship? Employee surveys that measure [...]

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Practice employee retention strategies to foster company culture, employee recognition, and hiring the right talent.

5 Talent Retention Strategies We Learn from Cinco de Mayo

While most people associate Cinco de Mayo with carne asada, mariachi music, and a zesty tequila, there is a powerful allegory about the employee retention strategy behind all the festivities. These five enchiladas of wisdom revealed by the underdog victory at the Battle of Puebla offers strong insights intro talent retention strategies. Talent Retention Strategies Hot Tamale #1: Know what You’re up Against When the Mexicans triumphed over the French, it was a major upset. Not only were the French an [...]

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If aliens are 1480 light years away, their employees are very happy

In case you have not heard, there is a star behaving oddly in a nearby chunk of our milky way. Let’s call it an “odd star,” since it’s known by twelve people as KIC 8462852, and may or may not be a “god star,” or one with highly intelligent life around it. The intelligent life debate and details of the situation are well covered by the Royal Astronomical Society, or reviewed by Time Magazine, and are not the focus in this [...]

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Ineffective Ways of Engaging Employees

Engaging employees in desired work-related behaviors: focus on strengths. In a recent survey the Gallup Organization found that 58% of respondents cannot say, “I know what is expected of me at work.” Clarifying how an employee’s position and performance relates to the organization’s goals allows employees to grasp how their roles directly impact the organization’s success.

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