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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

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You have to understand your customer so you can provide a product people want. However, have you considered an often untapped source of new productivity and savings : Employee Retention. Employee retention is important because employee turnover costs time, money and productivity. According to the U.S. percent this September. .

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3 Business Reasons for Employee Engagement Program

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1) Productivity rises: Gallup performed a meta-analysis across 199 studies covering 152 organizations, 44 industries, and 26 countries – which was featured on the Harvard Business Review blog – and found that general productivity was 18% higher at companies where employees were more engaged than not.

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Cutting Costs/Curtailing Services Can Produce Crappy Customer Service

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When a business shortchanges their labor or quality – its products, services, or level of customer service can suffer. When surveyed customers preferred a quality service or product over faster turnaround time or even a better price. Here are four principles to keep you on track: Hire the right people.

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Four Ways to Grow Your Business

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The website, which became widely available in 2006, was ranked the most visited website after Google by Nielsen Media Research in 2011. Find businesses that couple well with your service or product and exchange advertising on each others’ websites. The trajectory of Facebook is equally astonishing. They all benefit.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

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Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). By Daniel H.