Author: Dr. Dana

Did you know that an employee often decides to stay (or not) within their first 30-90 days on the job? There’s also a statistic that 33% of employees know within the first week if they will stay with the new job long term. What if I told you, it’s possible to get a head start on retaining a candidate before they even arrive on day one? Here I’ll offer three simple actions you can take before you onboard your new hire. This month we’ve been talking about retention. We’ve talked about strategies managers can lengthen an employee’s time at...

For the most part, agencies aren’t actively trying to retain employees. Worse is that there’s no efforts to retain the highest performers. There’s tons of advice and strategies available to retain government employees that I won’t rehash here. But I wanted to offer you a strategy you may not have considered before. One that will work for high performers. And, one that will neither cost you money nor require special approval from your leadership. The employee retention strategy is as simple as this.  If you want to retain an employee, you need to create a situation where they plan...