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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 29 – Retaining Your Best Employees

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Given the current economic recession, it’s surprising that 87 percent of employees are considering leaving their organizations. Even more astounding is that recent surveys indicate 54 percent of the American workforce is actively planning to leave their organizations and that this number jumps to 71 percent among 30 year olds.

The dawn of a new year represents one of those few unique times that individuals tend to become more receptive to change. Subsequently, now is the perfect time for organization leaders to act to further enhance their workplace environments such that they become more engaging and more productive; helping to retain the best employees.

Episode 29 – Retaining Your Best Employees explores how to create a workplace environment that retains its best employees and simultaneously improves productivity. During our discussion, Roxanne Emmerich, President and CEO of the Emmerich Group and author of Thank God It’s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love shares her insights regarding:

  • the drivers employees cite as their reason for considering employment elsewhere
  • adverse primary and secondary impacts this condition is having on businesses
  • steps leaders can take to:
    • motivate less productive employees to increase their work output and
    • better engage the 87 percent who are disenfranchised so that they remain within the organization as productive employees

Additional Information

In addition to the exceptional insights Roxanne shares in Thank God It’s Monday! and this edition of the StrategyDriven Podcast are the additional resources accessible from her Thank God It’s Monday website, (www.ThankGodItsMonday.com). Roxanne also offers a free 60-second audio message each Monday to help you and your teammates clean up the craziness in your workplace and focus on getting massive results. Sign up today by clicking here.

Roxanne discussed her insights on creating an engaging and motivating workplace environment with us during our StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 18 – An Interview with Roxanne Emmerich, author of Thank God Its Monday!. Her book, Thank God It’s Monday!, published by FT Press can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Author

Roxanne Emmerich, author of Thank God It’s Monday!, is President and CEO of the Emmerich Group. A member of the National Speakers Hall of Fame, she is listed by Sales and Marketing Management magazine as one of the 12 most requested speakers in the country for her ability to transform negative workplace performance and environments into “bring it on” results-oriented cultures. Roxanne has been featured hundreds of times in leading publications on topics such as leadership for results, employee engagement for bottom AND top-line improvement, profit-rich growth strategies, and a multitude of other workplace breakthrough issues. To read Roxanne’s full biography, click here.

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New Whitepaper Release – Project Size Determination

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StrategyDriven contributors are pleased to announce the release of our seventh whitepaper: Project Management – Project Size Determination.

Project Governance and Management – Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right…

A project’s size often dictates the necessary level of governance and management applied to the initiative. This governance and management typically includes items such as:

  • required authorizations
  • level of planning detail
  • frequency and breadth of communications

Subsequently, accurate estimation of a project’s size during project initiation is essential. But what characteristics should be considered in the project’s size determination and how should the project size criteria for each of these characteristics be identified?

The StrategyDriven Project Size Determination whitepaper provides business leaders with a five step process for establishing project size determination criteria used to establish the amount of project governance and management to apply; ensuring initiatives are well, not over or under managed. These steps are detailed with supporting principles and philosophies; helping users understand the reasoning behind each action.

StrategyDriven Premium Members can access Project Size Determination whitepaper by clicking here.

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Seven Secrets of a “Thank God It’s Monday” Workplace

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What accounts for the difference between “Oh Crap It’s Monday” and “Thank God It’s Monday”? It all boils down to seven habits that can change everything about the culture of your workplace:

1. Go beyond the job description
People aren’t hired because they can do the job. Most of those who DIDN’T get the job could have fulfilled the job description. People are hired because they demonstrate the ability to see what isn’t there but should be, and to make it happen. THAT’S job security. Saying “Nobody told me” or “It’s not in my job description” is a first class ticket to harmonize with the rest of the choir singing the same sad song in the unemployment line. Instead, if you see something that needs to get done, step up and make it happen! Think like a leader. Leadership is not a position – it’s a way of being.

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About the Author

Roxanne Emmerich’s Thank God It’s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestseller. Roxanne is renowned for her ability to transform “ho-hum” workplaces into dynamic, results-oriented, “bring-it-on” cultures in a day. Listen to the free 60-second audio with teammates each Monday to clean up the craziness in your workplace and focus on getting massive results. Sign up today at www.ThankGoditsMonday.com.

Management vs. Leadership Mindset: What Millennial Employees Need to Know As They Enter Leadership Roles

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The confusion between the role of a manager and a leader has tripped up more than one business professional and cost many companies their very existence. Is ‘the person in charge’ automatically a leader? If you’re managing other people, are you also leading them, by default? Just what is the difference between the two?

According to the current wisdom, managers are principally administrators; they write business plans, set budgets, monitor progress, and, yes, they manage people (but sometimes without the concept of an effective leadership mindset).

Leaders, on the other hand, get organizations and people to change. Most business executives and owners have a mix of management and leadership skills. And, quite often, both skill sets are necessary to run a successful business and team.

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Lisa Orrell, The Generation Relations Expert, is an in-demand corporate speaker, consultant, and professional Leadership & Career Coach for Millennials. She is the author of the award-winning book Millennials Incorporated, and her new book, Millennials into Leadership, was just released on Amazon and praised with 5 star reviews. This new book is the ultimate handbook for Millennials aspiring to be respected, effective young leaders at work. And based on her workforce dynamics expertise, she has also been featured by countless media, such as: MSNBC, ABC, NPR, The NY Times, Wall Street Journal, BNET.com, FoxBusiness.com and Human Resource Executive. For more info about Lisa’s seminars, keynotes, workshops, coaching, and books, visit: www.TheOrrellGroup.com. People also follow Lisa’s insights on Twitter @GenerationsGuru.

Leadership Inspirations – Growing Others

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“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

Jack Welch
Respected business leader and former Chairman and CEO of General Electric (1981 – 2001)