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I read it & ordered more for various other managers. I ordered about 40 over the past year for an associate director of my company. I believe every manager and employee should read it and practice what is on the pages. The book is excellent, easy to understand, and easy to put in practice. He uses a Chapter in his monthly global meetings. They read it and discuss how they can implement it.
With countless tips to keeping the cream of the crop producing for your crop, "Love 'Em Or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay" is an essential read for any manager and for community library business collections. Every company has those take-them-or-leave-them dead end employees - but then there are those employees who are truly special, and who make the company run as it should. "Love 'Em Or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay" is a guide for managers to making sure they keep these star employees happy and productive, so one's company can stay happy and productive.
We bought one for all our HR Managers around the country whereby they can utilize the practical application ideas as bet fit their facility. If you subscribe to the concept that BEING BRILLIANT AT THE BASICS will get you to the next level, this books is clearly for you. Well worth the purchase. In addition to sound "theory" provides very practical application.
If there was ever a phenomenal return for money spent, it's in implementing Love 'Em or Lose 'Em's s6 strategies. Unlike the hundreds of management books out there that can be rather philosophical and academic on how to create a productive work environment (with many of the concepts capable of being covered in three, not three hundred, pages), this book focuses on 26 strategies with countless practical actions under each strategy that a manager can take to make the work environment (read: "people") highly productive. Buy it. But that means you have to first invest in the book. Best yet, the authors' strategies for employee engagement and subsequent retention don't cost big bucks to implement. And if you haven't figured out how much payroll dollars you lose by disengaged employees who ultimately leave, you're missing a big chance at improving your bottom line.
I was better able to work with an employee who had special family needs. This book is an essential read for leaders today. As a busy professional, it's easy to fall into the trap of tending to the task and not so much the relationship. This book is filled with practical, relevant, and usable advice on keeping employees engaged. If you care about developing your people you will understand them better after reading LOVE 'EM or LOSE 'EM. This book brings me back to that important balance. Chapter six, "Family", was extremely useful and helped me understand that employees have needs that, many times, surpass their pay check.
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