Employee Retention Archives

When a Tagline Becomes a Difference Maker, That Moves All Your People

Jul 21, 2026 | Employee Retention, Leadership, Management, Strategy

Most company taglines are written for customers. The best ones also guide your employees.

While a clever tagline may help people remember your company, a powerful mantra helps your employees run it.

For example, BMW has spent more than five decades promising “The Ultimate Driving Machine.” As a fervent BMW owner, I can attest that the cars deliver on that promise.

Nike built a similar global identity around “Just Do It.”

However, the strongest phrases do more than advertise a brand. They express what the company believes and how it intends to behave.

Here are four landscape examples from companies we have worked with over the years.

Become Your Employees’ Favorite Radio Station

Apr 28, 2026 | Employee Retention, Growth Tips, Leadership, Management, Strategy

There is no shortage of noise and distraction right now.

Your employees hear it everywhere: economic uncertainty, political tension, rising costs, overseas conflicts, and endless social media opinions.

You cannot control what your team hears outside of work.

But you can become the most trusted voice they hear inside your company.

Inoculate your team from outside distractions.

Your team needs more than a once a month memo. They need consistent, engaging and positive communication, every day, like a radio station.

Profit Sharing vs. Bonuses vs. Incentives: Which Actually Drives Performance

Jan 23, 2026 | Employee Retention, Employees, Incentives, Leadership, Management, Productivity, Strategy

I get questioned a lot from owners about their current reward system, and whether they should roll out a bonus, incentive or profit sharing system to boost performance.

They ask me things like “Should we start a profit sharing program?” “Do incentives actually work?” “Should I replace our Christmas bonus?”

What they are really asking is “How do I reward my team in a way that they will buy into, that actually changes behavior––without backfiring and hurting morale?”

The “Up Review”: A Leadership Tool Uncovering Hidden Opportunities

Dec 16, 2025 | Employee Retention, Employees, Leadership, Management, Strategy

Most annual reviews point in one direction: leaders evaluating employees.

Healthy companies flip the mirror and ask a harder question: How are we doing as leaders—and what is it like to work for our company?

That’s the purpose of an Up Review: a structured opportunity for employees to give feedback to leadership about what’s working, what’s not, and what could make the company even better in 2026.

Done right, it increases employee retention and surfaces new opportunities. Done poorly, it backfires.

Happy Thanksgiving – 5 Ways to Be a Generous Leader

Nov 25, 2025 | Blog, Employee Retention, Employees, friendship, Growth Tips, Leadership

Thanksgiving has become a time to enjoy family, food, and football. But it can be much more powerful when you operate with the original intention of the holiday: giving thanks and helping others.

Here are five highly impactful ways to practice generous leadership this week and throughout the holiday season.

Skeletons in the Closet: The Hidden Risks That Haunt Your Business

Oct 28, 2025 | Employee Retention, Financial, Growth Tips, Leadership, Management, Planning, Strategy

Every business has skeletons 💀 in the closet — important issues that leaders know about but no one wants to bring to light.

October is the perfect month to deal with them before they spook your 2026 planning. Just like in horror movies, what you ignore always comes back to haunt you.

Here are four scary situations that we see when coaching owners and conducting roadmaps with leadership teams.

Why These Bonuses Backfire (and What to Do Instead)

Sep 23, 2025 | Employee Retention, Employees, Growth Tips, Leadership, Management

As the year winds down, many owners wrestle with the same question: What should I give my team for a year-end bonus?

How It Usually Starts (The Innocent Beginning)

It begins with the best intentions. You want to show appreciation, so you give a small Christmas gift or bonus as a thank-you. Your team loves it. You feel generous. Everyone wins.

Fire Up Your Next Company Retreat

Aug 5, 2025 | Employee Retention, Employees, Growth Tips, Leadership, Management, Strategy

Our team recently traveled to Cherry Log, Georgia, for a three-day retreat at our mountain house – the same place where we personally go to unwind.

Some of our staff got up at 2 AM to catch their Ubers, because apparently, nothing says “high-performer” like voluntarily losing sleep to go deep in the woods with your boss.

On the first day they arrived, we rented a party boat on Blue Ridge Lake and enjoyed water tubing, competitive horseplay, and cruising in the sun.

We dedicated a half day to pure fun and connection before we got down to business. And it paid off.

Use these tips to fire up your next business retreat.

10 Amazing Benefits of Hiring an HR Generalist

Apr 22, 2025 | Employee Retention, Employees, Management

Years ago, companies would not hire an HR specialist until they reached 100 full time employees.

Things have changed since those “good ol” days!

I am now advising companies to bring in this specialty HR position much earlier in their growth journey–especially when the leaders need the people-management support.

Below I have listed 10 benefits of hiring for this position early on.

4 Ways To Dramatically Increase Honesty On Your Team

Mar 25, 2025 | Employee Retention, Employees, Leadership, Management, Strategy, Training

Lessons from a Leadership Retreat:

I recently led a 2-day retreat for a 5M landscaping firm where the owner wanted to step out of day-to-day operations and fully embrace his role as a visionary.

One of the most impactful exercises we did was a “What I need from you?!” conversation.

Each attendee had the opportunity to express what they needed from everyone else, in order to be successful this year.
We held this exercise at the end of the retreat, after everyone was feeling loose and open.

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