Employee Feedback Surveys:
A Valuable Tool for Employers!

 

Creating a rewarding work environment is the key to employee retention. Although employers formulate a variety of strategies to create and sustain this environment, they often omit one of the most important aspects of achieving their goal: soliciting and acting on employee input and feedback. More

 

 

Employee Feedback: Initiating Change

 

After collecting employee feedback through employee surveys, focus groups, or other vehicles, the focus should shift to taking action and initiating change. Too often organizations make the mistake of improperly addressing the ideas, suggestions and input they collected in the employee feedback process. Without properly addressing employee feedback, organizations risk jeopardizing employee trust and fanning employee dissatisfaction. More

 

 

Investing in Manager Development

    

Though it is not uncommon for strong individual contributors to be promoted into management positions, success in the prior role does not guarantee success as a manager. Organizations should not assume that new managers will know or understand their roles. A retention survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that 21% of voluntary terminations are due to poor management. Developing managers will help to ensure that management is not contributing to turnover, but rather that they are directly contributing to employee success and retention. More

 

 

Third Annual Winter Coat Drive

 

Believe it or not, winter is approaching! For the third consecutive year, Helios HR is partnering with Reston Interfaith in collecting winter coats for our less fortunate neighbors. Reston Interfaith is a local non-profit organization which promotes self-sufficiency through support and advocacy for those in need of food, shelter, affordable housing, quality childcare, and other services. Every winter Reston Interfaith, with the help of local organizations and the community, collects and distributes coats for families in need in the Northern Virginia area. The Reston Interfaith Coat Closet is bare and in need of all of our contributions! More

 
Issue 10 | October 2008
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Also This Month...

 

Simplify Your Life
 Purchase the Guide to HR Administration from Thompson Publishing

 

 

Landmark Amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
 Read more important details from Helios partner, Jackson Lewis, on how this affects employers.

 

 

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