Retention management - employee retention and employer attractiveness

Optimize staff recruitment, reduce fluctuation, increase productivity, reduce costs

This training is held in German.
Reducing fluctuation and increasing attractiveness as an employer: two key factors in times of skills shortages and labor shortages. Which retention management measures have a lasting effect? Get to know useful tools for strengthening employee identification, motivation, staff retention and loyalty. Find out how to successfully use your retention management trump cards in recruitment, recruitment, HR marketing and employer branding. Learn methods to increase your company's profile as an employer, improve your employer image and attract the best applicants .

Contents

Consequences of low employee retention - Effects of employee retention

  • Arguments for internal company persuasion.
  • Securing viability and competitive strength.
  • Impact on commitment, productivity and company performance.
  • Use retention measures for personnel recruitment and recruiting.
  • Business management and psychological aspects.

Approaches for optimal employee retention

  • Employee loyalty relationships and their effects.
  • Rational, legal, perspective, habitual, normative and emotional employee loyalty.
  • Analysis of the degree of employee retention.
  • Strategic management of fluctuation.
  • Design of employee surveys to increase loyalty.

Retain and win over important target groups

  • Analysis of performance and potential.
  • specialists: Employees with skills critical to success.
  • Shortage of skilled workers and labor shortages.
  • Key employees: Strategically important functions.
  • High performers, high potentials and talents.
  • Practical examples: Best practices and use cases.

The best measures for employee retention

  • The best measures to increase employee satisfaction.
  • Effective benefits, tangible and intangible measures.
  • Structural and individualized bonding measures.
  • Organization of working hours, place of work, working environment.
  • Effects of work organization, home office and work-life balance.
  • Specialist careers and management careers as retention tools.

Image and attractiveness as an employer

  • Employer of Choice: The path to becoming an employer of choice.
  • Do good! ... and talk about it!
  • Importance of remuneration and benefits.
  • Recognize strengths, identify unique selling points, create an employer brand.
  • Image as an employer, name recognition and public image.
  • Innovative employer branding, personnel marketing and recruiting.

The role of managers

  • Transparency of goals, tasks, responsibilities and expectations.
  • Leadership behavior, appreciation, participation and feedback.
  • Employee retention and retention management at an individual level.
  • Achieving employee enthusiasm with simple methods.
  • Shaping team climate, working climate, working atmosphere.

Optimization of own concepts

  • Own situation, goals and options for action.
  • Company-specific tailoring of the packages of measures.
  • 500 proven employee retention measures and benefits.
  • Responsibility of company management, executives and HR.
  • Ensuring profitability: Return on Employer Attractiveness Investment.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

  • Get to know concrete measures to optimize retention, loyalty and motivation of employees and to increase attractiveness as an employer.
  • Recognize whether and which deficits exist in the company and develop sensible packages of measures.
  • Know several options for implementation in the company, taking into account cost and profitability aspects.
  • Benefit from targeted exchanges with experts and colleagues .
  • Receive helpful checklists and work aids that can be adapted individually and company-specifically.

Methods

Input from the experts, individual and group work, checklists, practical cases from the participants, selected example cases, collegial advice and exchange of experiences.

Recommended for

HR Management and corporate management decision-makers and designers who want to design and implement effective measures for employer branding, employee retention and employer attractiveness.

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