Keeping Great People

Thursday, January 20, 2005... 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Featuring Stephen Tweed and Elizabeth Jeffries

Session III of the Winter 2004-2005 Leadership Series -- Communication and Team Building for Performance Excellence

Staff turnover is becoming a major strategic issue for many home care companies. With the current shortage of nurses and home care aides, turnover of competent staff is even more expensive. One research study suggests that "employees don't quit a company. They quit their supervisor." What impact can effective leadership skills have on reducing turnover in your organization?

In this third program in the four-part series, we will discuss …

• Key causes of turnover in home care
• The seven sources of strategic staffing advantage
• How to create strategic focus in your staff retention efforts
• 210 ideas to create an exceptional place to work

Our experience in conducting live seminars for dozens of organizations in a variety of different healthcare organizations suggests that this will be a most provocative discussion. Managers and supervisors don't like to admit that valued staff members leave because of them. And yet research suggests that most people leave a company they like because of their relationship with their supervisor.

In the discussion guide for this program, we'll give you some great discussion questions to stimulate a conversation with your managers about ways to keep good people on your team.