An early start for our South Yorkshire Partner event with Glu Recruit.
Our key speakers for the event included: Rob Shaw MD of Glu Recruit, Toby Pochron Senior Associate from Freeths and Reem Naylor Health and Wellbeing Consultant of Westfield Health.
Retention
The morning began with Rob giving an introduction around how staff can be retained and what to look for around staff who may be ‘flight risks’, and looking to leave.
A key fact was that 52% of leavers said that their employer didn’t try anything to retain them, and that 94% of leavers would stick with a company if they invested and developed their staff.
Rob spoke about giving staff praise and focusing on their first 45 days, making sure they receive a full induction into the business.
He outlined key attractions to a new job included:
Whilst the key reasons people left were:
Rob finished his section outlining Glu’s Top 10 Employee Retention Tips.
Employee Culture
The baton was then passed to Toby Pochrun from Freeths who explained culture in an organisation.
Toby detailed that a workplace wellbeing culture is key as it helps to avoid burnout, reduce retention issues and increases flexibility without reducing value.
He explained how organisations need to define what wellbeing means to them, and embed this firstly in policy and procedure, and then how this must be lived from top down, ensuring wellbeing is constantly lived.
Wellbeing
Reem Naylor from Westfield Health, then detailed how Sheffield compares to other areas of the UK in terms of wellbeing and that the main barriers were:
And how mental health and fitness sit side by side.
Reem then discussed elements which drain the lifestyle battery such as; working late, not planning and skipping breakfast. Things are can all be guilty off.
She then explained what can be done to recharge the lifestyle battery including; planning our diaries better, going home on time, taking a lunch break away from our desks and moving more.
Reem also discussed what employers can do to support their staff, by encouraging staff to take lunch breaks, engaging with an EAP and utilising other services where necessary.
The event gave a lot of food for thought and how we can not only look after ourselves, but how we can look after staff better.
