Why does our work focus on teaching you new ways to recruit, engage, retain, and develop hourly employees and trades people?
Because no one else does…
If your company is having trouble attracting and retaining great hourly employees, where can you turn? Staffing agencies will happily charge you a 30% fee on the wages for the people they find for you… and you need to pay that for each employee for about 3 months. Recruiters want to find salaried employees, not hourly or trades employees, and they charge a percentage too. Staffing agency and recruiter fees can add up tens of thousands of dollars in fees every year.
The trouble is, they have no interest in teaching you how to do it yourself.
But we do.
In a Winning the War for Talent workshop, we will create a small team of people to serve as your “new age” recruiting team. This group will normally have someone from each department: HR, operations, administration, and sales/marketing. These folks will be the ones who own, audit, and drive this initiative. They will be able to see the effects of these new strategies in real time and will review them in post-workshop conference calls where I can guide their efforts.
Once the strategies prove effective and you are fully staffed, your team is able to flip this switch anytime it needs to. Problem solved, once and for all. It also serves as a great developmental experience for mid-level managers who are looking for a chance to contribute and grow.
So, your organization has a choice. If you need a great hourly and trades workforce, you can put another expensive band-aid on it and call a staffing agency. OR… you can teach your people to own it, fix it, and resolve it for good. Remember, hourly employees have never been taught how to find and choose your opportunity… let me teach you how to go to them.
