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Staff Turnover can be a costly hassle!

Pissed off, annoyed, and apathetic employees suck. They suck profit. Most staff members will not — repeat, not! — bother to let you know the real reason why they've quit working for you. They'll just disappear, and you'll never know why.

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Manage for
Employee
Retention

The most effective turnover reduction techniques for managers.

12 pages

Turnover is a silent business killer.

Or they'll slowly fade away as they are less and less satisfied with their jobs. Or they'll grin and bear it — because they have to make rent, pay the bills, etc. — and cost you loads of cash in poor production and crummy customer service, eventually bringing down the morale of the other staff members.

And unless you can read their minds from your chair in the office, you'll never know what's coming. Turnover is a silent business killer, sucking up time and profits unless it's managed properly.

This is the way things have always been, and how they'll stay as long as you continue doing the same things, over and over again. What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results.

We get it — you are a great boss. An awesome manager, a business extraordinaire, and an amazing leader. But sometimes the numbers just aren't working and you need to find a new way to do things.

You're not alone.

If these problems hit a little too close to home, don't worry. You're certainly not alone. In fact, you're in great company. There are big companies with millions of dollars in revenue who subject their customers to disgruntled employees or don't mind selling half-baked products to customers. Apparently, they're so flush with cash that it's just fine for them to drive customers away.

But you can't afford the kinds of losses caused by pissed off employees and dissatisfied customers.

And you should know that for every employee problem, there is a solution.

Unfortunately, despite a web full of blogs and wikis, you'd have to spend hours and hours tracking down these solutions – even if you already knew how to isolate the problem in the first place. And for the stickier problems requiring you to overhaul your entire labor management system? Hours is absolutely an understatement.

There's not even a comprehensive book on the subject.

Or should we say, there wasn't.
Until now.

Manage for Employee Retention

To the rescue.

Turnover will suck money from your business if you let it. In fact, most businesses don't realize how badly their bottom line is hit from turnover, much less know how to combat those losses.

We'll help.

We've included some ideas and explanations of the most effective turnover reduction techniques to help you understand the main reasons employees quit and the importance of maintaining employee job satisfaction.

Inside the eBook

  • The most effective turnover reduction techniques
  • Main reasons employees quit (the ones they won't tell you)
  • How to maintain employee job satisfaction
  • A handy-dandy turnover calculator
  • Hidden costs that aren't easily calculated
  • Easier labor management options
  • Technology solutions for staff turnover

The questions this eBook answers

Learn why you want your newly satisfied employees to stick around.

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Do you know what percentage of turnover is preventable?

02

Do you know the secret to reducing turnover costs by 3%?

03

Great employees make you money. But if an employee only sticks around for a couple of weeks, do you actually make any money from their work? Hmmm… probably not!

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Why do your new employees seem to leave after a few months? Why do you care? There's a dozen other high-schoolers looking for a job.

05

How do you keep your good managers from going across the street to the competition, where they'll get paid $1.00 more per hour?

06

Why did your last assistant manager leave?

Manage for Employee Retention is ideal for the brand new, kind of experienced, or even super experienced manager.

Just give me a hardcopy!

We feel ya. Most eBooks suck. They're organized stupidly, with pages and pages of text that's hard to read and gives you a headache.

So we made our eBook easy to read, specifically designed for use via computer screen. In fact, you'll find it reminds you of a PowerPoint presentation — lots of important information in a compact format.

We prevent the dreaded "E.T. Finger" because each page is built as a clean, self-contained slide — one clear idea at a time, so you're not scrolling through endless walls of text. You can even move page to page just by pushing your "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys.

We won't bombard you with tiny fonts and a bunch of text that's just "filler". We used proven design tactics to present the text in the most eye- and brain-friendly manner possible, using large, sharp fonts and clearly presented ideas.

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Clean, slide-style pages. No endless scrolling.

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Keyboard friendly

Move page to page with Page Up and Page Down.

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Designed to read

Large, sharp fonts. No filler. No headaches.

So no stupid DRM. Ever.

And that's why we refuse to cripple our eBook with any stupid DRM. Feel free to print, copy/paste, and back them up. You don't need to stress about remembering some obscure password just to reference the damn thing.

We aim to please. We're not going to create a bunch of annoying problems for you.

We hope that by treating our customers with respect, and delivering a truly outstanding product for an excellent value, that we will help people absolutely be able to justify paying for what we produce. In your business, you know that cutting corners gets you nowhere fast, so we won't insult you with a product that is anything less than excellent.

About the Authors

Erik van Gilder

Erik van Gilder

Founder, TimeForge

One of the founders of TimeForge.com, Erik has been at the forefront of helping managers and staff members remember that they want the same things. He works with upset managers and frustrated staff, and helps both groups see the light by upsetting and transforming the labor management processes in organizations. Smoothing communication between experienced managers and staff is what he does.

It's possible that you may know him from his previous projects at Resolution Software, where Erik ran a consulting company that helped transform human beings from mind-numbing dead-end jobs into awesome customer-driven employees who have a customized computer program to help them do their job.

Erik's a native English speaker, which doesn't hurt. And, he loves History. Like, really, really loves History.

Anthony Presley

Anthony Presley

Founder, TimeForge

Another founder of TimeForge.com, Anthony works daily with the brains (the customers!) behind the best labor management software on the planet. Anthony's primary role is to ensure that the software TimeForge produces does exactly what customers need — and that usually means modernizing the way HR and operations teams handle scheduling, time and attendance, and labor compliance. It ain't easy.

Anthony and Erik have worked together for over two decades, managing a variety of software projects for customers to keep their businesses humming along. The one unifying factor for these customers? Staffing problems, turnover, over-time, and labor issues plague each and every one. It didn't take long for the light bulb to click on, and TimeForge has been at the forefront of ensuring that employees of all generations get along just fine with the management.

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