Cut Early Turnover! Seven Ways to Cut New-Hire Turnover in Half
New-hire turnover is the doom loop for healthcare, manufacturing, food processing, call centers, distribution centers, and other industries. Continuous hiring results in wasted training time, increased errors, and more on-the-job injuries - along with supervisors coaching new hires or even worse, abandoning their supervisor roles to perform open jobs. This session offers seven fresh-thinking ways to improve new-hire retention that span from developing realistic job previews to implementing supervisor accountability for achieving retention goals.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to measure new-hire turnover by location, job, manager, and length of service in order to develop new-hire retention goals.
- Learn techniques to implement new-hire retention accountability such as Hilton's 91-day accountability meetings after each new-hire class date and Great Dane's weekly new-hire retention check-ins.
- Learn research-based methods that increase new-hire loyalty including developing realistic job previews, doubling employee referrals, and applying loyalty-enhancing job offers.
Dick Finnegan
Dick Finnegan is THE global turnover expert, having cut turnover by 30% and more for healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, distribution centers, call centers, and other industries…and on all six inhabited continents.
Dick has authored the top-selling SHRM-published book, The Power of Stay Interviews, along with four other books. BusinessWeek magazine has said “Finnegan offers fresh thinking for solving the turnover problem in any economy”. He has been similarly cited by Forbes, Chief Executive Magazine, and Consulting Magazine.
He holds bachelors and graduate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and lives in Orlando, Florida.
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