Retaining Employees

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What can you, as a manager, do to attract top talent and keep your company's high-performing employees In Retaining Employees, you'll learn ways to stay competitive in the war for talent by using creative and effective retention strategies, including:

Managing or removing common obstacles to retention, such as burnout and work-life imbalance
Developing programs to better meet employees' diverse needs and interests
Hiring the right employees in order to improve retention

Author Bio

James Waldroop is a principal and co-founder of CareerLeader, LLP. Until 2001, he was Co-Director of MBA Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School. Jim's work focuses on two areas of interface between psychology and the world of business: individual management development (executive effectiveness development) and career development assessment and counseling. Timothy Butler is is a Senior Fellow and Director of Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School. His research interests focus on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction in particular. Waldroop and Butler spent many years helping business people work through the career planning and development processes, including developing the Internet-based interactive career assessment program CareerLeader(R) currently used by over 400 MBA programs and corporations around the world. Waldroop and Butler are also the authors of four Harvard Business Review articles and two books: Discovering Your Career in Business (Perseus, 1997) and Maximum Success: Changing the 12 Behavior Patterns That Keep You from Getting Ahead (Doubleday, 2000).