Retention
How Trust, Clarity, and Conflict Fuel Employee Engagement
Discover how building trust, providing role clarity, and encouraging productive conflict are key to driving real employee engagement beyond workplace perks.
Building a Welcoming Environment for Employee Retention
Discover how to create a welcoming workplace where employees feel at home, leading to better retention and reduced turnover with this approach to onboarding.
Encouraging & Incentivizing Employee Growth & Development
Discover strategies to encourage employee growth and development, ensuring motivation and engagement for those content in their current roles.
Revamp Your Incentive Programs [webinar replay]
In this webinar Jeffrey Scott will review the common problems with incentive programs, then show you how to avoid and overcome them.
Employee Growth and Development Tips
Discover essential strategies for fostering employee growth and development in your organization, from structured orientation programs to continuous learning and feedback.
How di Stefano Landscaping Became a Multi-Million Dollar Company
Chris di Stefano details three crucial lessons he learned while growing his landscaping company into a multi-million dollar organization.
30-Day Development Review Questions
Complete your new employee onboarding with a 30-Day development review using these questions to foster accountability and alignment.
Improve Employee Retention & Engagement with Text Messaging
Improve employee retention & engagement in blue-collar companies with text messaging. Learn effective communication strategies & tips!
5 Keys to Building Employee Engagement for Field Services
A guest post from veteran hospitality leader, Ed Walls, who deep dives into five key strategies for building engagement with deskless teams in the field.
How To Build a Highly-Engaged Workforce
A highly engaged blue-collar workforce results in higher employee retention, higher company earnings, and fewer safety incidents.
9 Ways to Engage Your Drivers
Simple strategies for building a stronger connection with truck drivers, bus drivers, delivery drivers, and more.
Best Practices For New Hires
Keep your employees around longer by following these best practices when you bring them on the team.
How to Raise Your Retention Rate
Save money and time by retaining the great employees you have using simple techniques you can implement today.
8 Ways to Foster Trust & Keep Employees Longer
Fostering trust up and down an organization plays a vital role in keeping employees engaged for the long haul.
Employee Engagement Surveys: Balancing Feedback with Fun
If you want deskless and blue-collar employees to give you feedback, keep it simple and make it easy: ask one question, and ask it via text message.
Building The Right Culture to Build The Right Team
Three strategies for middle and upper management to put in place to build a team that's happy, engaged, and producing quality work.
How to Keep Employees From Leaving
We flipped the script on "The Great Resignation" and discussed how it might be creating an unique opportunity for employers to reconnect with employees.
6 Tips for Retaining Seasonal Employees
If you want your temporary employees to come back next season, it all boils down to recognition for their hard work and regular communication in the off season.
How to Plan Team Building Activities for Blue-Collar Workers
The ideal scenarios for using team building activities, when not to use them & tips on team building activities specifically for blue-collar workers.
9 Ideas for Blue-Collar Team Building Activities
Explore creative blue-collar team-building activities and ideas. Strengthen team bonds and boost morale with engaging, effective exercises.
Keeping New Hires Engaged
Learn effective strategies for keeping new hires engaged. Discover tips and best practices to ensure a successful onboarding experience and long-term retention.
6 Retention Tactics for New Hires
Want to make sure your new hires stick around? Check out these six retention tactics that have been proven to work in blue-collar industries.
Long Term Employee Retention Strategies That Work
If you want to keep your employees for the long haul, it all starts with having a solid long-term employee retention strategy.
Talent Management, The Right Way
Learn how to scale your team effectively and efficiently with these talent management best practices.
Promoting Employee Engagement and Emotional Safety
From encouraging workers to take time off to changing corporate culture and policies, employees need support to combat burnout and remain engaged at work.
Bringing Back Seasonal Workers for Peak Season
Landscaping industry experts weigh in on how to navigate the tricky topic of seasonal hiring and temporary work.
Cultivating a Culture of Safety in the Workplace
Industry experts weigh in on how to promote safety in the workplace through company communication, training, and culture.
7 Ways to Improve Company Culture
Seven ways to improve your company culture, as told by Jeffrey Scott in our recent webinar on recruiting and retention in landscaping.
A Leader's Guide to Employee Retention Success
Watch our webinar on employee retention strategies. Learn practical tips to keep your team engaged and reduce turnover with expert insights and advice.
Important Leadership Strategies for Employee Retention
Companies with high turnover can benefit by shifting their focus from hiring to retention. Here are three leadership strategies to get you there.
Employee Appreciation Ideas That Boost Retention
The impact of showing appreciation to employees, different ways to recognize them & creative employee appreciation ideas that will help you retain talent.
4 Shortcuts to Employee Retention Success
Four things that leaders must do if they want to serve their team well and encourage them to stick around long term.
11 Strategies to Reduce Employee Turnover in the Trades
New data from the 2022 retention report, plus the best strategies to help you dramatically reduce employee turnovers in your skilled trades business.
The 4 Leadership Mistakes Impacting Employee Retention
Common mistakes that leaders unknowingly make without realizing the negative repercussions it can have on employee welfare.
How to Offer Employee Growth
Rather than focus on creating new roles and responsibilities, structure employee growth around "going deeper" in existing roles.
How to Engage Employees in Deskless Industries
There is no silver bullet when it comes to keeping your employees engaged. It’s a long game, and it starts with personal investment from the top down.
How to Create a Blue-Collar Career Development Plan
By creating a career development plan, you can set your deskless, on-the-go employees up for success and help them reach their full potential.
The Top 5 Employee Benefits That Cost You Nothing
These employee benefits can really help you stand out from your competition to attract and retain the best talent — at no additional cost to you!
Using 'Total Rewards' as Part of Your Retention Strategy
The breadth of options in the benefits category of Total Rewards means that there is an entire untapped arsenal of options available to retain top talent.
FAIR Management of Deskless Employees
Leaders should be fair in dealing with direct reports, but the word ‘fair’ also reveals four critical actions they must take in developing their team.
The Pros and Cons of Paying for Performance
Is performance-based pay a good thing or a bad thing? In this article, we weigh the pros and cons of paying for performance in labor-intensive industries.
It’s Not a Hiring Problem–It’s a Retention Problem
Many employers believe the best way to compete in a tight labor market is to offer higher wages, but the answer has more to do with management than money.
Workplace Flexibility in Blue-Collar Work: Is It Possible?
Experts weigh in on how to achieve workplace flexibility in blue-collar industries without sacrificing quality or missing deadlines.
Why Companies Need to Invest in HR
How the pandemic’s effect on supply & demand caused some companies to lose their staff, while others weathered the storm, then hit the ground running.
Org Design & Employee Development for Retention
Exploring the different types of internal mobility and advancement opportunities that employers of all size can offer their employees.
Are Recession Fears Over?
With all the speculation of a recession, how at risk are companies in labor-intensive industries, and what should businesses be doing right now to prepare?
How to Give Performance-Based Bonuses & Raises
Industry experts share best practices and advice on setting policies around performance-based pay & bonuses, raises, and internal rewards programs.
ContractorCoachPRO's Recipe for Building a Culture That Drives Results
The energy that comes from having employees who are passionate and excited to be part of your company’s exceptional culture is an invaluable asset.
How to Write Company Mission, Vision and Values
An updated approach to defining a company’s mission, vision and values to make them more tangible, actionable and within reach for your employees.
Creating a Culture Around Communication Transparency
Good company communication doesn’t run on a need-to-know basis anymore. Here’s why transparent communication is the new normal & how you stand to benefit.
How Proper Training Empowers Field Leaders
A construction industry vet joins us for a webinar on how to empower frontline supervisors to become more engaged leaders.
A Leader's Impact on the Organization’s Personality
Why "leading by example" is more impactful and important than you might think.
The Hidden Costs of Employee Turnover
Use these data points to convince company stakeholders that it’s time to invest in employee retention, which can in turn ease the pressure to hire.
Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
It’s important to address accountability because it sets the tone of what you expect, and it can dramatically affect your team's rate of growth.
How to Set & Track Goals to Hold Employees Accountable
Using SMART goals coupled with appropriate KPIs allows employees and managers to always know where an employee is excelling or may need redirection.
Find 'The One Thing' That Will Improve Employee Performance
The best managers carefully and consistently observe their people to find one thing they can work together on to improve employee performance right now.
How to Conduct an Exit Interview
Questions to ask + do’s and don’ts for conducting an exit interview that yields helpful insights to improve company culture and retention.
How to Celebrate Small Wins as a Business Owner
When employees believe their contributions are valued, they’re more likely to respond with innovative output, rather than just clocking in for a paycheck.
The 9 Components of Being an Employer of Choice
To outshine your local competitors and become an employer of choice, these 9 essential components must be part of your retention strategy.
Creating an 'All-In' Mentality
How knowing your employees’ core values, key motivators, and life aspirations can help you shape their work to be more engaging and fulfilling.
Employee Retention Bonus: What It Is and How to Implement One
Learn about employee retention bonuses in blue-collar industries, how they can save on hiring costs, and best practices for implementation.
Dennis' 7 Dees Cultivates Excellence by Investing in People
How Dennis' 7 Dees fosters a culture of growth by prioritizing employee development, recognizing their contributions, and promoting open communication.
9 Ideas for Employee Retention in Manufacturing
Retention ideas for manufacturing leaders to keep their valuable employees happy, engaged, and committed to the company's success.
3 Characteristics Every Employee Wants in Their Leader
To turn an employee into a life-long follower, leaders need to demonstrate genuine care, effective communication, and consistency in their actions.
How to Give Holiday Bonuses
Blue Collar Nerd Richard Kohberger chats with Chris Hunter about how to structure holiday bonuses in a fair and sustainable way.
How to Use Employee Appreciation Text Messages to Boost Morale
You can't be everywhere at once, but you can reach employees wherever they are with a simple text message. Here's how to boost morale & improve retention over text.
Stay Interviews: A Secret Weapon to End the Labor Shortage
Discover the power of stay interviews to combat the labor shortage. Learn what they are, why they work, and how to implement them effectively with Team Engine's text message surveys.
Developing a Training Program for Landscapers
Developing a training program for landscapers takes some planning and organization, but will ultimately pay off in the form of better employee retention.