The Magnetic Leader

Chapter 10Getting Great Employees to Stick Around

Recently, I was the keynote speaker at the Boston Evanta CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) Leadership Conference, where I had a dynamic conversation with global HR leaders on “How to Create a Solar System of Talent.” One of the CHROs told me that he thought employees were receiving monthly calls from headhunters regarding new opportunities. I suggested that the people in his organization were receiving calls daily! I then asked the leaders in the room to raise their hands if a headhunter had called them about a new opportunity within the last week. More than 75 percent of the people in the room raised their hands! That’s just crazy. Let’s face it. It’s going to take a lot more than a prayer ...