Filling the Role & Keeping It Filled: How to Retain Good Employees

Why Might You Be Losing Good Employees?

Does it feel like you are constantly on the hunt for an employee to fill a role? Businesses who see their best employees consistently moving on to other ventures may be experiencing one or more of the following:

Compensation and benefits have not been reviewed in many years or do not account for the area’s cost of living

Employees lack incentives to stay (bonuses, growth opportunities, raises)

Bad leadership (lack of accountability, poor communication)

Poor working conditions (bullying, harassment, toxic workplace culture)

The professional consultants at Pivot HR work with you to create a custom plan to help you retain your best employees. We work with you to first increase employee engagement and then work to provide value to keep them happy.

First: Employee Engagement

The first step to retaining top talent is through employee engagement. Giving employees a method of communicating feedback is an important step to job satisfaction. Open communication in a business is a giant step towards retaining your best employees. Here are a few ways you can start the process of creating a dialogue:

Online suggestion box for anonymous submissions

Poll employees when making decisions that involve them

Standing meeting slots available to employees to give feedback or ask questions

Set up an open-door policy

Let your employees be heard. Staff who feel they are not just another body will have a higher likelihood of staying in place.

Second: Retention

Retaining your employees can be achieved by increasing benefits, implementing a merit-based compensation plan, and paying a living wage for your area. Especially in Californian cities with an extremely high cost of living, like Santa Barbara, employees need to be paid substantially enough to cover housing costs.

We are seeing an increase in people moving away from Santa Barbara due to the cost of living. When was the last time your company’s compensation plan was reviewed? Your compensation plans should be reviewed annually to account for inflation and the area’s living expenses. If increasing employee salaries is not an option, adding benefits can be the right move. Paid sick leave, additional vacation, free parking, and reimbursing gym memberships are just a few ideas.

Custom Solutions to Keep Your Best Workers

Pivot HR works with businesses of all sizes to come up with personalized retention strategies that fit; sometimes, this includes evaluating service costs and budgets. We never hand out a one-size-fits-all solution for employee engagement and retention strategies, as each business operates differently.

Partnering with a third-party HR firm like Pivot HR can make it easy to find the strategy that works best for your organization and retain employees you deem valuable. Contact our team today.

What Our Clients say about us

“Robin and Mia were both exceptionally professional and responsive and understood our needs. Their work was of great quality. We are a small non-profit organization and we found them very easy and wonderful to work with. Great value and highly recommend.”

~ Joy Masuhara , Co-Chair Women Transforming Cities International Society

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~ Monique Cotton, Firm Administrator, JFK Law Corporation

“As a medium size business with over 100 employees working in very different areas of our operation, Pivot was able to quickly understand our HR needs and offer practical solutions. Robin and the Pivot team worked closely with our Leadership group to implement effective turnkey solutions on time and on budget. We will continue to use Pivot for our ongoing HR needs and would highly recommend their services.”

~ Adam Zubek, General Manager, Point Grey Golf & Country Club

Pivot HR Services provides personalized solutions for our organization’s human resources needs. By engaging their services, we have been able to successfully outsource our HR function, as the Pivot team has demonstrated their ability to understand the HR priorities of our workplace culture and industry.

~ Areef Abraham, Chief Executive Officer Community Power

“Robin developed our employee policy manual with the goal of engaging and retaining our current staff as well as attracting new ones in this highly competitive marketplace. Her in depth knowledge of current legislation and HR policies proved to be of significant benefit. I would highly recommend Robin and the team at Pivot HR Services.”

~ Christopher Soles, President, Nextgen Technologies Ltd.

“Robin has been and continues to be an outstanding resource for our organization to navigate HR issues as we grow. She always approaches problems with professionalism and a keen eye for our best interest. I’d certainly recommend Robin to anyone looking to elevate their HR processes.”

~ Karim Abraham, CEO, Kambo Energy Solutions

“Our firm turned to Robin for advice and guidance at a time when we faced a period of serious difficulty in managing our human resources. She assisted us through the process of putting our relationship with our staff on a stronger, more stable footing and helped us implement a complete overhaul of our human resources policies. We could not be more pleased with the work she has done and continues to do with us.”

~ Robert Janes, QC, Managing Principal JFK Law Corporation