Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business: 24 Ways to Hang On to Your Most Valuable Talent

In Keeping The People Who Keep You In Business, Branham Offers Battle-fatigued Managers A Plan For Victory In The Talent War. Critical To His Plan Are 24 Compelling Strategies For Keeping Good Employees. These Strategies Are Grouped Under Four Keys: (1) Be A Company That People Want To Work For, (2) Select The Right People In The First Place, (3) Get Them Off To A Great Start, And (4) Coach And Reward To Sustain Commitment. In Addition, Branham Identifies Dozens Of Companies With Outstanding Employee-retention Programs And Provides Hundreds Of Examples Of What These Companies Are Doing - Ranging From Low- Or No-cost Activities To Major Initiatives - To Hang On To Their Most Productive People.--jacket. Introduction: Why You Are Fighting The War For Talent -- Truths About Turnover -- Why Good Performers Leave -- Who Are The People Who Keep You In Business? -- Keys To Keeping The Right People -- The First Key: Be A Company That People Want To Work For -- The Second Key: Select The Right People In The First Place -- The Third Key: Get Them Off To A Great Start -- The Fourth Key: Coach And Reward To Sustain Commitment -- Selective Retention: Planning To Keep The Right People -- Keeping All The People Who Keep You In Business: Special Groups And Situations. Leigh Branham. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 321-332) And Index.