As the world awakens from its economic slumber, talk in the Australian business community is gradually turning to the familiar topic of the skills shortage.

As you probably know by now, at HRwisdom we are very much focussed on businesses taking a proactive approach to skills shortage issues. This means we regularly encourage our community members to take positive action when it comes to employee retention and reducing staff turnover.

In today’s HRwisdom blog post we have some excellent free HR resources to help you be even more proactive with your employee retention planning.

Employee Retention – Why Is It So Important?

Put simply, an organisation that is bad at retaining talent:

• Loses a lot of new recruits
• Loses a disproportionate percentage of high performers
• Loses an increasing percentage of all staff
• Experiences increasing grievances
• Fields increasing customer complaints
• Records increasing compliance breaches
• Sees an increase in staff sick leave
• Records increases in safety problems
• Takes longer to fill vacancies
• Pays higher recruitment costs
• Attracts lower calibre candidates

To help you become a high-performer in the area of employee retention, we have called upon our friends at Retention Partners who have kindly agreed to share some of their powerful employee retention tools with you.

Click on the following link to download (for free) the highly informative Retention Success Guide: Guide

Click on the following link for free access to the powerful Employee Retention Calculator Tool: Calculator

Finally, if you have friends and colleagues who would benefit from this information, please feel free to share the following link with them: Employee Retention Blog

The link: http://blog.hrwisdom.com.au/2010/07/employee-retention-new-tools/

Kind regards,

HRwisdom Support