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Employee retention is about more than just keeping your people

Retention is about relationships

As an enlightened business leader you know this. You recognise and value the role of your people, and understand that retention is one of the 5 essential capabilities for business sustainability. You know that good people are hard to keep, and you are aware of the impact (or at least some of the impact) the departure of highly-valued people can have on your business. 

So you have long since moved beyond the carrot or stick approach. In fact you may even think it is now all carrot. Yet you are still losing good people despite all your efforts to improve your working environment and retain them. And you are wondering, "Why?"

You will not properly solve the problem until you accept employee disengagement as the major cause.

Statistics like these portray the scale of the challenge you face. What is more they also show a worsening trend. When you are that far behind the ball it is hardly surprising that your efforts seem so frustratingly unavailing.

The Zealise Assessment Programme (ZAP™)helps you break this frustrating cycle of increasing employee disengagement. It assesses your employee engagement by a business-focused look at retention as one of the 5 essential capabilities of business sustainability. Because it sees retention as more than just employee retention it looks at both customer retention and employee retention and, by looking at the two as a relationship, it assesses employee engagement from:

• The effect on the customer of every role
• The delivery of output as a customer service
• The psychological motivation provided by the satisfaction of providing a good service

Assessment establishes the existence or not of a problem and its scale. It identifies target actions to build and strengthen relationships, and provides more proactive, predictive measures to prevent loss of either customer or employee. But you still need remedies to deliver these.

The Zealise Integrity Programme (ZIP™) offers you these. By accounting for people as human assets and offering universal, no-cost, no-equity employee ownership it offers a people management solution that embeds employee engagement and recalibrates relationships. This inspires permanent behaviour changes that ensure sound relationships and so secure retention. And not just employee retention but customer retention and other stakeholder retention that assures your organisational integrity and hence your sustainability. 

It is impossible to have any relationship without engagement and the greater the energy and enthusiasm the greater the engagement and hence the stronger the relationship. Your challenge is to inspire the energy and enthusiasm you invariably find when people enjoy what they do and give of their best. Do this and you will ensure good relationships and retain your people, because engaged employees are happy people who do not want to move.

ZIP™ enables you to meet that challenge and to transform your corporate culture to create and permanently embed employee engagement. It engenders the ownership and shared interest that creates a sense of belonging and builds the organisational integrity that enables you to be confident of your sustainability.

To create the organisational zeal to dramatically improve employee engagement and retain your people and customers and so transform your bottom line, download our FREE paper "How You Can Assess Employee Engagement Without Conducting An Employee Survey" now or simply contact us directly.