Book Summary : Retaining Employees Pocket Mentor Series

As a manager, what can you do to attract top talent and keep you companys high-performance employees? In Retaining Employees, youll learn ways to stay competitive in the war for talent by using creative and effective retention strategies, including: Managing or removing common obstacles to retention, such as burnout and work-life imbalance Developing programs to better meet employees needs Hiring the right employees to improve retention. About the Author Timothy Butler is the Director of Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School. His research interests focus on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction in particular. James Waldroop is a principal and co-founder of CareerLeader, LLP. Until 2001, he was CoDirector of MBA Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School. Jim's work focuses on two areas of interface between psychology and the world of business: individual management development (executive effectiveness development) and career development assessment and counselling. Waldroop and Butler spent many years helping business people work through the career planning and development processes, including developing the Internet-based interactive career assessment program CareerLeader currently used by over 400 MBA programs and corporations around the world. Waldroop and Butler are also the authors of four Harvard Business Review articles and two books: Discovering Your Career in Business (Perseus, 1997) and Maximum Success: Changing the 12 Behavior Patterns That Keep You from Getting Ahead (Doubleday, 2000).

What can you, as a manager, do to attract top talent and keep your company's high-performing employees? In Retaining Employees, you'll learn ways to stay competitive in the war for talent by using creative and effective retention strategies, including: (1) Managing or removing common obstacles to retention, such as burnout and worklife imbalance, (2) Developing programs to better meet employees' diverse needs and interests, (3 Hiring the right employees in order to improve retention. About Pocket Mentors: The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.

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What can you, as a manager, do to attract top talent and keep your company's high-performing employees? In "Retaining Employees", you'll learn ways to stay competitive in the war for talent by using creative and effective retention strategies, including: managing or removing common obstacles to retention, such as burnout and work-life imbalance; developing programs to better meet employees' diverse needs and interests; and, hiring the right employees in order to improve retention. "The Pocket Mentor" series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.

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An overview of employee retention -Understanding the challenges to retaining employees -Retention strategy 1: hiring right -Retention strategy 2: making your company an employer of choice -Retention strategy 3: retaining a multigenerational workforce -Retention strategy 4: cultivating the right culture -Retention strategy 5: helping employees avoid burnout -Retention strategy 6: strengthening your retention skills -Tools for retaining employees -Test yourself -FAQs -Key terms -To learn more -Sources for retaining employees.