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The Power of Stay Interviews for Employee Engagement & Retention

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  • Who Is C-Suite Analytics?Bring broad reach working with scores of US Companies and across 6 continents, with targeted retention techniques for many industries

    Business-driven by translating turnover %s and survey scores to the language of CEOs which is Dollar$

    Improved retention 20-70% based on our founders top-selling, industry-changing books

    Endorsed by Chief Executive Magazine, Consulting Magazine, and BusinessWeek which said, Offers fresh

    thinking for solving the turnover problem in any economy

  • Todays Map

    The Power of Stay Interviews First-line leaders roles in engagement &

    retention Building trust is essential competency The Stay Interview Tool-Kit Bonus: What makes people happy?

  • The Power of Stay Interviews

    A Stay Interview is a structured discussion a leader conducts with each individual employee to learn the specific actions she must take to strengthen that employees engagement and retention with the organization

    Stay Interviews

    Bring information that can be used today

    Focus on individual employees including top performers

    Put managers in the solution seat

  • StructuredFive defined questions

    that will help you to yield needed information

    Stay Interviews are always conducted by each employees immediate

    supervisor in order to build trust

    Leader

  • Reduce Cost of Turnover Improve Employee Engagement Improve Revenue & Profitability

  • U.S. Voluntary Quit Percentages, Post-RecessionU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

    Young U.S. workers will hold 10-14 jobs by age 38

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  • Employee Engagement Stuck In The Mud Gallup/Bersin

  • CEO, our turnover is 12% and the benchmark is 20%

    OR

    CEO, our turnover is 12% and its costing us $2.2 MMeach year

    TRUE

    BUT ALSO TRUE

    CEOs Want Worthless Benchmarks

  • How Much More Do Engaged Employees Produce?

    Gallup: 22% more profitability/lower turnover (TO)/higher earnings per share (EPS)

    GPTW Institute: 20% more productivity/lower TO/higher EPS

    Hewitt: % engaged correlates with higher shareholder returns (S/H)

    Kenexa: double S/H returns

    WorkUSA/Watson Wyatt: 26% more revenue per employee

  • Reduce Cost of Turnover Improve Employee Engagement Improve Revenue & Profitability

    Goals

  • Retention Programs are driven from the side like town hall meetings, employee appreciation week, newsletters

    Business Accountabilities are driven by executives from the top like sales, service, quality, & safety

    86% of the time

    Are Your Engagement & Retention Efforts Driven by

    Accountabilities Programs

  • Poll Question #1

    How do you solve engagement & retention?

    With Accountabilities

    With Programs

  • If you have a turnover problem, look first to your managers Gallup

    Employees stay for managers first and co-workers second salary.com

    Employees levels of engagement higher when their supervisors had higher levels of engagement DDI

    When employees stay, it is because of their immediate managers National Education Association

    Employees who stay primarily for their supervisors stay longer, perform better, and are more satisfied with their payTalentKeepers

    Supervisors Impact on Engagement & Retention

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  • The Real Power of Supervision

    A global consulting firm interviewed 1,000 recently-quit employees and asked about pay, benefits, development, advancement and relationships with supervisors and found supervisor relationships influenced all other opinions, concluding

    Offering a higher salary or developmental/advancement

    opportunity may not be enough to retain employees

  • First-Line Supervisors Impact on Engagement

    Data per Gallup

  • The Incredible Power of Accountability & First-Line Retention Goals

    Strategy AGroup of hospitals solved nurse turnover with onsite child care & flexible scheduling

    Strategy BOutlier hospital assigned retention goals to managers and reported progress monthly

    One Year Later: A turnover % identical, B down 41%, saved millions of $s

  • Introducing the Power Of

  • Why Was Your Best BossYour Best Boss?

    And Why Was Your Worst Boss Your Worst Boss?

  • The Fortune Top 100, 2012 - 2016

    Baby bonding bucks100,000 hours subsidized massagessubsidized wash & foldvirtual doctor visits3 prepared organic meals a dayartisan tea & coffeeonsite oil changes/haircuts/spa truck/bike repair trucknap podsvolunteers to Ghana & India7-acre sports complexhorseshoe pitsfree eyebrow shaping

  • Two-thirds of a companys score is

    based on the results of the Great

    Place To Works Trust Index Survey

    Any company can be a great place to work. Our approach is based on the major findings of 20 years of research that trust between managers and employees is the primary defining characteristic of the very best workplaces.

    The Great Place to Work Institute

  • Building Trust 1-1 Builds Profits

  • One Big Lesson Learned

    Its not what you give them, its how you treat themand first line supervisors most influence employees relationships with managers, colleagues, and duties And MUST build trust

    Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

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  • Reduce Cost of Turnover Improve Employee Engagement Improve Revenue & Profitability

    Stay Interviews

  • The Power of Stay Interviews

    A Stay Interview is a structured discussion a leader conducts with each individual employee to learn the specific actions she must take to strengthen that employees engagement and retention with the organization

    Stay Interviews

    Bring information that can be used today

    Focus on individual employees including top performers

    Put managers in the solution seat

  • 3 Stay Interview Success Stories

    Novo 1 Call CentersAgent turnover down 20%

    Florida Hospital ZephyrhillsAll turnover down 37%Nurse turnover down 70%

    Burcham Hills Retirement CommunityNurse turnover down 70%100% retention first 180 days

  • Top-down, Cascading Implementation

    Stay Interview Process Key Ingredients

    Executives w/ Managers

    Managers w/ Supervisors

    Supervisors w/ Ind.

    Contributors

    Time

  • Stay Interview Process Key Ingredients

    Conducted by supervisors vs. HR

    Separate from Performance Review

    Repeat at least 1X/yr for all existing employees / 2 times a year for new hires

    Script opening, questions, probes, closing

    Create individual Stay Action Plans

    Managers Forecast RetentionTop-Selling SHRM-Published

    Book in History

  • Stay Interview 5 Questions (1) To Build Trust & (2) Gather Data

    1. When you travel to work each day, what things do you look forward to?

    2. What are you learning here?

    3. Why do you stay here?

    4. When was the last time you thought about leaving our team? What prompted it?

    5. What can I do to make your experience at work better for you?

  • Poll Question #2

    In Stay Interviews, what do employees ask for the most?

    More pay Development Work/life balance Better work processes Promotions

  • What Do Employees Ask For The Most?

    Better work processes!

    Please eliminate this report/improve equipment/get others to be more accountable

    Employees most want to be more productive & eliminate sacred cows

  • Reduce Cost of Turnover Improve Employee Engagement Improve Revenue & Profitability

    Forecast

  • Managers Forecast Retention

    Likely to leave in a 6 months or less

    Might leave in 6 12 months

    Likely to stay greater than 1 year

    Can be changed at any time if new information

  • Retention Forecast HeatMapLeader: Rodriguez

    Perf Rating/5 Hi, 1

    Lo

    Green 1+ yrs

    Yellow 6-12 Months

    Red 0-6 Months

    Retention Plan

    Kim Johnson 4 Provide mentor for

    Burt Brown 5 Develop skills for possible promotion to

    Cindy Stone 3 Pleased with current role & circumstance

    Ralph Jimenez

    2 Coaching for performance

  • The Power of Retention Accountability

    MANAGER RETENTION GOALS YTD ACTUAL TURNOVER %COST OF

    TURNOVER

    Bob Jones All T/O 15% 13% $105,378

    1st Yr T/O 5% 3% 31,254

    Sue Michaels All T/O 15% 10% $71,598

    1st Yr T/O 5% 5% 49,560

    Ray Murphy All T/O 15% 22% $221,369

    1st Yr T/O 5% 11% 88,321

  • How To Build Stay Plans

    Development New Role/Promotion Pay

  • Subject Probes SolutionsDevelopment If you could learn about

    one additional topic related to your job, what would that one topic be?

    How do you learn best? By reading? Listening? Observing? Doing?

    How can I know that our plan is working, that you are learning what we both want you to learn?

    Assign a mentor for a specific number of hours each week for a specific period of weeks

    Ask employee to identify relevant books and websites

    Recommend internal and/or external courses

  • Subject Probes SolutionsNew Role/Promotion Tell me the perfect job for

    you

    Why is that job so appealing to you?

    What SKILLS do you have that qualify you for that job? What SKIILLS would you have to build?

    Ask employee to meet with/shadow incumbent and report back on 5 most important SKILLS

    Give employee specific feedback on her SKILL levels and SKILLS needed

    Build plan to develop SKILLS via mentoring, coursework, and feedback

  • Subject Probes SolutionsPay How much money do you

    think you should be making?

    What actions do you see that you can take to increase your pay?

    What SKILLS can you build that would make you more valuable to our company?

    Check employees pay against same-performing peers to verify it is right

    Design development plan that is targeted toward a different role for more pay if employee has talent to qualify

    Ensure employee knows all incentive opportunities that might provide shorter-term rewards

  • Vado Stay Interview ToolKit Contents

    1. Introduction to the Stay Interview2. Preparing to Conduct Stay Interviews3. Essential Stay Interview Skill #1: Listening4. Essential Stay Interview Skill #2: Taking Notes5. Essential Stay Interview Skill #3: Probing6. Essential Stay Interview Skill #4: Taking Notes7. Managing the Stay Interview8. Developing A Stay Plan9. Closing & Moving Forward10 12. Avoiding Stay Interview Traps

  • Gallups 100 Year CommitmentSurveying citizens of the world to learn what brings most happiness over 100 years. So far the answer is which

    a. Good health?b. A good job?c. Love and respect from others?d. Money for needs and more?e. Better life for your children?

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  • Poll Question #3

    Which is the greatest driver of global happiness?

    Good health

    A good job Love and respect from others Money for needs and more Better life for your children

  • Gallups 100 Year Commitment

    a. Good health

    b. A good jobc. Love and respect from othersd. Money for needs and moree. Better life for your children

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    Slide Number 1The Power ofStay InterviewsFor Engagement & Retention by Dick FinneganWho Is C-Suite Analytics?Todays MapThe Power of Stay InterviewsSlide Number 6Slide Number 7Slide Number 8Employee Engagement Stuck In The Mud Gallup/BersinCEOs Want Worthless BenchmarksHow Much More Do Engaged Employees Produce?Slide Number 12Are Your Engagement & Retention Efforts Driven byPoll Question #1Supervisors Impact on Engagement & RetentionThe Real Power of SupervisionSlide Number 17The Incredible Power of Accountability & First-Line Retention GoalsIntroducing the Power OfWhy Was Your Best BossYour Best Boss?The Fortune Top 100, 2012 - 2016Slide Number 22Building Trust 1-1 Builds ProfitsOne Big Lesson LearnedSlide Number 25The Power of Stay Interviews3 Stay Interview Success StoriesTop-down, Cascading ImplementationSlide Number 29 Stay Interview 5 Questions (1) To Build Trust & (2) Gather DataPoll Question #2What Do Employees Ask For The Most?Slide Number 33Managers Forecast RetentionRetention Forecast HeatMapThe Power of Retention AccountabilityHow To Build Stay PlansSlide Number 38Slide Number 39Slide Number 40Vado Stay Interview ToolKit ContentsGallups 100 Year CommitmentPoll Question #3Gallups 100 Year CommitmentSlide Number 45