Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business: 24 Ways to Hang on to Your Most Valuable Talent

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Summary: Finally!
Review: Finally an employee retention resource from an outstanding consultant that combines practical step by step instructions with theory AND excellent examples from top companies. Keeping outstanding employees should be a top priority for every business, but unfortunately retention often runs a distant second to recruitment. Leigh Branham takes the mystery out of keeping top employees by providing business owners, managers and consultants proven retention tips. After introducing each retention practice, Leigh provides a questionnaire to evaluate your company's effectiveness. Plus the appendix is filled with surveys, checklists and evaluations you can start using today! As a consultant and coach, I am using Leigh's material with companies and individual clients and getting excellent feedback.

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Summary: Finally!
Review: Finally an employee retention resource from an outstanding consultant that combines practical step by step instructions with theory AND excellent examples from top companies. Keeping outstanding employees should be a top priority for every business, but unfortunately retention often runs a distant second to recruitment. Leigh Branham takes the mystery out of keeping top employees by providing business owners, managers and consultants proven retention tips. After introducing each retention practice, Leigh provides a questionnaire to evaluate your company's effectiveness. Plus the appendix is filled with surveys, checklists and evaluations you can start using today! As a consultant and coach, I am using Leigh's material with companies and individual clients and getting excellent feedback.

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Summary: Do you need your own people coach?
Review: I have known Leigh Branham for 20 years and the book reflects who he is. It is a straight forward, bottom line approach to solving the critical people problems in business today. If you are looking for ways to maximize the contributions of your people, if you are looking for solutions, if you want a personal people coach sitting on your shoulder, then go out and get this book today. Who knows, Leigh might even have an idea or two that will help you. Because if you don't have your best people satisfying your customers, someone else will.

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Summary: VP
Review: I WAS LOOKING FOR A PRACTICAL AND COMPREHENSIVE BOOK ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION WITH IDEAS I COULD START USING RIGHT AWAY--THIS IS IT. THE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH THE AUTHOR PUT INTO DOCUMENTING WHAT THE BEST COMPANIES ARE DOING TO ATTRACT AND KEEP GOOD PEOPLE IS IMPRESSIVE. MY COMPANY HAS BEEN STRUGGLING FOR YEARS WITH THE ANSWERS TO EMPLOYEE TURNOVER, AND NOW I FEEL WE HAVE A GUIDE FOR ALL MANAGERS TO USE AS A PRACTICAL DESK REFERENCE. I LIKE THE WAY "KEEPING THE PEOPLE.."IS ORGANIZED INTO THE FOUR KEYS (REPRESENTING THE EMPLOYMENT LIVE CYCLE) AND THE FACT THAT IT DOESN'T OVERLOOK THE IMPORTANCE OF SELECTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE (NINE CHAPTERS ON THAT PHASE ALONE). YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THE BOOK FROM BEGINNING TO END-YOU CAN DIP INTO THE PRACTICES YOU KNOW YOUR COMPANY NEEDS MOST. I EXPECT TO KEEP REFERRING BACK TO CERTAIN LIST AND SECTIONS- ESPECIALLY THE LIST OF INNOVATIVE BENEFITS, 54 CREATIVE WAYS TO FIND NEW JOB CANDIDATES, AND THE GUIDELINES FOR RETAINING GENERATION X-ERS AND ENTRY-LEVEL WORKERS.

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Summary: Insightful!
Review: If you are fed up with recruiting, training and motivating new employees only to see them ride off into the sunset, you probably need to re-think some of your basic approaches to running your business. You can emerge a winner in the now fully joined war for great talent - the inevitable collision of a low unemployment rate with the corporate world's growing need for skilled workers. Management consultant Leigh Branham has written a lively, thorough guide to keeping great employees. Her book, which is a pleasure to read, is filled with plenty of sound, usable advice and examples from large and small companies. No matter what your industry is or how big your company might be, her guidance is likely to help you keep your best people longer. We [...] recommend this book to executives and managers. Read it before your competition does.


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Summary: How to keep the best employees
Review: In a competitive job world, employers face special challenges in how to hang on to valuable talent, and Keeping The People Who Keep You In Business tells how to keep the best employees. Employees want more than money; they seek autonomy, challenge, and meaningful work - this tells employers how to identify and meet these needs for lasting results.

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Summary: Superb - Insightful Information
Review: Leigh Branham provides insightful and thought provoking information to everyone in today's workforce. All too often, companies bring new employees onboard and then forget about them, only to end up losing them. Taking employees for granted severely impacts the corporate bottom line, not to mention the damage done to that employer's reputation. With the current low rate of unemployment, employees are finding that if one employer doesn't treat them right, another employer will.

This book is a "must read" for everyone - employers and employees alike - a benefit across the board! It is clearly evident - - Leigh Branham has performed extensive research on the subject of retention and is an expert professional.

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Summary: Avoid Brain Drain
Review: Leigh has written a book that should be on the desk of every business person who wants to create a work environment where people do their best because they are valued as the best.

Although change is part of life, a business always wants to keep the talent that makes for success. This book serves as a clear, concise outline as to how to make this happen. It shares down to earth advice that works in the real work world.

What a great addition this would be to the required reading list for MBA students. Many of the problems that are faced daily in today's business world could be prevented if Leigh's findings were put into practice! I highly recommend this book to both small and large business managers.

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Summary: Avoid Brain Drain
Review: Leigh has written a book that should be on the desk of every business person who wants to create a work environment where people do their best because they are valued as the best.

Although change is part of life, a business always wants to keep the talent that makes for success. This book serves as a clear, concise outline as to how to make this happen. It shares down to earth advice that works in the real work world.

What a great addition this would be to the required reading list for MBA students. Many of the problems that are faced daily in today's business world could be prevented if Leigh's findings were put into practice! I highly recommend this book to both small and large business managers.

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Summary: Valuable Business Resource!
Review: This book addresses one of the key strategic concerns for business: keeping their best and brightest employees. Moreover, Branham has done this in a way that combines reasoned concepts with practical examples. Too many business books are long on theory and short on ideas that leaders can easily implement. With the labor shortage only likely to get worse this is an excellent tool for all business leaders, from the CEO to line supervisors.