Nearly half of employees are looking for other jobs. Employees are quitting their jobs far more frequently than before the pandemic. There are currently more than ten million open jobs. The likes of the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, and record levels of employee burnout haven't been experienced in our lifetimes.
Yet, notwithstanding the desperate need for employee retention, most organizations and their leaders are making serious mistakes. We've studied more than 1,000,000 leaders, and we've identified the Deadly Sins of Employee Retention. These are the 7 mistakes that can destroy an organization's employee retention efforts. The bad news is that they're so harmful. The good news is that they're easily corrected.
This book will challenge some of the most entrenched and misguided beliefs about employee retention. We'll show you how to avoid the Deadly Sins of Employee Retention and teach you seven elegantly simple strategies for keeping and inspiring your best people.
Mark Murphy is a New York Times bestselling author, Senior Contributor at Forbes, and the founder of Leadership IQ, ranked one of the Top 10 Leadership Development Firms in the world. Mark's books include Hiring for Attitude, Truth At Work: The Science of Delivering Tough Messages, Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your People to Give It Their All and They'll Give You Even More, and HARD Goals: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and U.S. News & World Report. Mark has also appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, and ABC's 20/20. Learn more atwww.leadershipiq.com