"A war rages in today's workplace, pitting company against company in the fight to find and keep good employees. The losses are high, and battle-weary managers are desperate for talented reinforcements. They've learned that bonuses, stock options, and other financial rewards aren't enough. To win this "war for talent," they need more. Help has arrived in the form of Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business. This compelling new book gives readers a battle-plan for victory, offering 24 strategies for retaining valuable people. The strategies are grouped in four basic "keys": 1) Be a company people want to work for 2) Select the right person in the first place 3) Manage the joining-up process 4) Coach to maintain commitment. These practices will help readers: Make their organization an "employer of choice" * Clearly define the talent needed * Make new employees feel welcomed, valued, prepared, and challenged * Facilitate employees' career growth and advancement, and more. Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business is also loaded with specific examples, how-to guidelines, models, and planning aids--proven tools from an expert who knows that money alone won't keep the employees you can't afford to lose."
Leigh Branham is Principal and Founder of Keeping the People, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas. Leigh has been researching and speaking about best practices in employee engagement and retention since 1995. He helps companies analyze the root causes of employee disengagement and turnover, then develop and implement strategies to grow revenues and profits by becoming better places to work.
Leigh is the co-author, with Mark Hirschfeld, of Re-Engage: How America's Best Places to Work Inspire Extra Effort in Extraordinary Times (McGraw-Hill, February, 2010). Leigh's previous two books--The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How to Recognize the Subtle Signs and Act Before It's Too Late, were selected by The Library Journal and Executive Book Summaries among the top 30 business books of the year.
He has consulted with multinational companies and spoken at human resource and leadership conferences in China, Poland, Canada, Argentina, Paraguay, and Malaysia. Leigh has been interviewed on National Public Radio, and widely quoted by the Associated Press and in publications such as Business Week as an expert on employee engagement and retention. His commentary on why companies lose good people appeared in the June, 2008 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Leigh also publishes a quarterly free subscription e-newsletter--Keeping the People Report, available at www.keepingthepeople.com.
