Some of these are used as part of a workshop and/or on a stand alone basis – available in hard-copy and on-line versions.
A-Z Retention Assessment Cards™ and Think Pak
Provides 12 activities for managers and supervisors to use the A-Z cards with groups and in one-on-one meetings. They also can help measure the engagement and retention temperature at an organizational, departmental, or team level.
Invest in Your Values®
This unique approach to values clarification uses a game-board setting for fun and insightful learning. In addition to it's use in the engagement and retention arena, it can also be a helpful tool for teambuilding, redeployment, diversity training, and one-on-one discussions.
Love 'Em® Coupon Book
There are 26 practical and simple engagement and retention strategies you can use to keep your stars. This on-line coupon book gives you a way to implement these strategies immediately, and with a personal touch! (also available on-line).
Retention Deficit Disorder®
Based on the "JERK" chapter, this interactive tool helps managers recognize key behaviors that if changed, could significantly increase their ability to engage and retain talent.
Retention Focused Manager™
Unique 180 degree survey, based on the A to Z strategies from Love 'Em or Lose 'Em ®, this instrument package measures a manager's talent-focused behaviors and identifies opportunities for improvement. By comparing the self-version to those of the direct reports, managers have an opportunity to see their potential to become a talent-focused leader realistically and start taking action where it has the biggest return.
Run the Numbers®
An interactive, real-time and practical tool for managers to recognize the actual costs of lost talent (build the business case), calculate the costs of what it would take to keep them, and experience the return on investment from the actions taken.
Talent Risk Assessment Matrix™
The Talent Risk Assessment is an electronic tool that, upon answering 25 questions, helps managers assess each of their direct reports on two related dimensions:
The direct report's level of impact on (value to) the organization (and the cost/pain of disengagement )
– In tandem with –
The level risk of his/her disengagement/departure.
The result is:
A 2X2 matrix that “plots” the risk for each direct report assessed
A customized list of actionable strategies for lowering or eliminating the risks of disengagement (the custom list is determined by analyzing their answers to the questions).
Talent Risk Assessment Matrix® (TRAM), an excellent pre-or-post-workshop online assessment tool, the TRAM assesses managers' talent as to their risk and impact of individual departures and offers tips and strategies to retain and re-engage.
Love 'Em or Lose 'Em® Coupons: Practical coupon book with 26 simple "gifts" to give to employees based on the Love 'Em® strategies (also available on-line) that provides an easy way to implement engagement and retention strategies immediately and with a personal touch.
Thursday Thought Provokers: Weekly communications to remind and sustain learnings from Love 'Em or
Lose 'Em® workshops.
Munch & Learns/Mini Modulesbased on the specific needs of an organization following the initial learning experience.
Consulting: A consulting partnership offers an opportunity work with Human Resources, Senior Leaders and/or initiative sponsors to understand the business goals and alignment with your talent initiative. This partnership will evaluate results, assess additional needs, and recommend/implement additional experiences to sustain the learnings.
Coaching: Managers who participate in Career Systems' learning experiences gain an overall perspective on how to keep talent, while employee participants learn how to take control of their satisfaction. Both leave with a process to follow and a plan of what actions they will take.
Career Development: Career Systems offers a variety of its award-winning career development solutions for both managers and employees, to apply a more directed effort into strengthening the development strategies for the engagement and retention initiative.
Mentoring: Career Systems offers several mentoring solutions to meet multiple learning needs. By adding mentoring to your engagement and retention initiative, you can strengthen the culture of learning, and define roles, goals and tasks for both the mentors and mentees.
Internal Marketing and Communications continue to be critical as participants practice their new behaviors and continue taking actions towards building a development culture. We provide an internal marketing and administrative kit to support our clients.
