Understanding why employees leave and what keeps them at your organization can impact your success as a business.

1. Employee Retention

2. What are the two to three most important
qualities that keep you at Group Dekko?

3. Why do people leave?

4. Poor relationship with manager/supervisor or
co-workers

5. Bored or unchallenged at work

9. Company stability

11. Company and culture not a
good fit

13. NationalAverage – 1.8%

14. Why do people leave?

15. Top 5 reasons we lose employees
(Voluntarily quit)
1. Higher paying job/New job opportunity
2. Perception of instability of the company
3. Not enough training and development
opportunities
4. No opportunity to advance
5. Not getting along with boss/problems with
co-workers

16. Why should we care?

18. Why people Stay?

21. What do you think would
improve our employee
engagement?

22. Team Activity (45 minutes)
• Draw a category from the hat
– Benefits/Wellness
– Workplace Culture/Employee Morale/recognition/engagement
– Job performance/Career Planning/Training
– Improving Manager/Co-worker work relationships
• Research and develop one best practice/idea for
your category
• Prepare a 5 minute presentation on your best
practice

24. Employee Engagement…
“…is about how we create the conditions in
which employees offer more of their capability
and potential.” – David Macleod

25. Research claims “disengagement”
(burnout, boredom, lateness,
lackluster performance and
workplace conflict) affects as many
as 9 in 10 employees.

26. Gallup pegs the cost of lost
productivity due to absence,
illness and stress-related work
problems in excess of $350
billion per year nationwide.)

31. 24 hour employee gym
Nap area’s
Massage Chairs
Video Game Stations
Movie Breaks
Paid trips
Shuttle Service
Creativity Time
Car Care (Oil Changes, Car Washes)
Child Care
4 day work week
Employee Sabbatical

32. Choosing 2 Ideas
Come to a consensus as a group
on which ideas we think we can
implement in the coming year
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