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Saturday, April 23, 2011

About Human Resources: Four Tips to Reduce Turnover - Quickly

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From Susan M. Heathfield, your Guide to Human Resources

Vol. 12 No. 52 - ISSN: 1533-3698 April 23, 2011

Dear People:

Attending a local chapter American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) seminar on conflict resolution and mediation this past week, I was reminded about how much I enjoy doing training. I was also reminded of another rule of training, seminars, and presentations that I have followed without fail throughout my career. If a seminar is less than 90 minutes to 2 hours, the effective facilitator owes it to her audience to provide the content, a real opportunity for attendees to share the facilitator's broad knowledge about the topic. This facilitator had it wrong. She spent the majority of her hour and a quarter with the attendees doing a conflict resolution role play. She then debriefed the role play. I have no problem with role plays in a different venue, but I didn't pay my admission fee to do a role play with a colleague with whom I work so closely every day that we could have recited each other's next lines.

In the facilitator's second error, except for a couple of attendees, her audience was made up of seasoned facilitators who had presented hundreds, perhaps thousands, of seminars and training sessions themselves. Such a waste of talent and knowledge that could have been drawn out for sharing in the group! But, fundamentally, if you do presentations and facilitation and you have just an hour or so, you owe your audience an hour of information. The attendees didn't pay and take the time and the travel time to attend the seminar to hear themselves speak.

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Regards and wishing you and yours the best this weekend,

Susan


Four Tips to Reduce Turnover - Quickly

Turnover is a useful measurement, a finger on the pulse of employee satisfaction within your organization. Turnover is also a testimony to how effectively the recruitment process you employ is functioning. Turnover rates give you insight into how well your managers are interacting with employees. Turnover is a window into your organizational culture, the environment you provide for employees in your workplace. Find out more.


Believe What You See When Hiring

Have you ever made up your mind about a candidate based on the body language he exhibited in your lobby? How about that clammy, wet, limp handshake? Or, how do you react to the candidate with dirt under her fingernails when she folds her hands on your desk. I've learned to pay attention to nonverbal communication. It communicates loudly and wisely.


360 Feedback: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Want to make people happy? Make people sad? Care to create an uproar in your organization that rivals in ferocity any change you've ever introduced? Want to stir up all of the dormant fearballs hidden just below the surface? I know; you think I'm talking about laying off half your staff. Right? Wrong. I am talking about organizations that do a poor job of implementing 360 degree feedback - and even ones that do it right.


Pitfalls to Avoid in Human Resource Recruitment

One of the most serious errors an employer can make is failing to give adequate consideration to the cultural fit of a potential employee within your organization. In fact, when I think back over the employees that client organizations have fired over the years, cultural fit - or lack thereof - was almost always a factor in the employee and the organization parting ways. Heed these other red flags and hiring mstakes.


 


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