To Have and to Hold

Are you looking for employee engagement ideas that are easy to implement and make sense for your team? Do you want to increase employee commitment to your organization and make sure that you keep your top talent from becoming someone else's? Can you use some ideas to help with retention strategies? If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, this book is for you. So, let's consider the similarities between the employee engagement process and the pre-marriage engagement process. Recruiting/The Hunt: When you decide to hire someone, perhaps you'll visit Monster.com or attend a job fair to find your ideal candidate. When searching for a life mate, you may sign up for Match.com (like my brother) or scout out the local gym (like I did) to find someone with whom you'd like to spend your time. Interviewing / The Date: When interviewing, you take the time to assess the candidate's skills, abilities, personality, and culture fit. You may ask them about their skills, strengths, ask them behavior-based questions and test their competencies to see if they would be a good hire. When dating, you consider the other person's habits, likes, dislikes, personality, and how they will fit in with your friends/family. You'll ask about their history, weigh their value system, and study their reactions in various situations to see if they are a good potential mate. The Offer / The Proposal: You make the job offer / "pop the question" and hope for a "yes " Onboarding / the Honeymoon Onboarding can be done in one of two opposite ways: 1). You focus on creating an enjoyable experience for the new employee - introducing them to their peers, training them, and preparing them for success. OR 2). You hand them a pile of paperwork, have them sit in an office by themselves and let them fend for themselves when it comes to meeting people. The honeymoon can be a time when the couple celebrates their new union, leaves the technology at home, and focuses on starting their marriage off on a positive note. OR The couple can ignore the honeymoon for financial or time constraints; focus on their email, work that needs to get done, of anything else that is NOT their new union. Retention / Anniversary In the workplace you can use the tips in this book to show employees you appreciate their talents, skills, and abilities and you show them they are an important part of your company. On the home front - always put "first things first" and focus on the people that are most important. Show your spouse/partner that you appreciate, love and respect him or her. Inside this book, To Have and To Hold: 101 Proven Strategies to Engage Employees, you will discover what it takes to connect with your staff and build loyalty, engagement, and commitment to your organization. This book is not necessarily designed to be read from cover to cover - although you can do just that Open the book to any page and see how you can incorporate the ideas contained in your workplace. You now hold in your hands 101 ways to keep your top talent from becoming someone else's.