This course aims to equip executives/ Leaders with the Skills, Tactics and Strategies that are necessary to develop and implement effective retention strategies within their organizations. Participants will explore various retention methods and techniques that are relevant to the contemporary workforce, understand the importance of employee engagement, and learn how to create a supportive and inclusive workplace culture that fosters long term commitment of the workforce.
Effective Employee Retention Strategies to Combat Attrition
Effective Employee Retention Strategies to Combat Attrition
Instructor: Dr. Sushmita Srivastava
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2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
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What you'll learn
Understand and explain the impact of employee motivation on retention, ensuring alignment with retention goals.
Analyze retention issues across career stages and apply appropriate, tailored strategies.
Analyze and implement reverse mentoring techniques to engage and motivate millennials effectively.
Develop and evaluate strategies to create an inclusive and positive workforce, addressing turnover and enhancing satisfaction.
Skills you'll gain
- Management Training And Development
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Human Resource Strategy
- Talent Management
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Performance Metric
- Team Motivation
- Workplace inclusivity
- Leadership Development
- Employee Engagement
- Workforce Development
- Motivational Skills
- People Analytics
- Mentorship
- Employee Retention
- Employee Coaching
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Assessments
15 assignments
Taught in English
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There are 4 modules in this course
In today’s dynamic business landscape, retaining top talent is critical to organizational success. Turnover carries significant cost, disrupts productivity, and undermines morale. This course equips executives and HR leaders with the skills, tactics, and strategies to design and implement effective retention systems. This module explains why retention is a top business priority amid shifting employee expectations and macroeconomic trends. Using motivation theory, it pinpoints what creates “stickiness” across the employee lifecycle and at different career stages. It highlights high-impact practices such as reverse mentoring(millennials mentoring more tenured colleagues) to foster mutual learning, growth, and commitment for both mentors and mentees. By the end, leaders can diagnose retention risks and apply targeted, motivation-based interventions that strengthen loyalty and reduce regrettable attrition.
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10 videos10 readings5 assignments
This module will focus on building an inclusive, positive and an engaged workforce, addressing issues of turnover and satisfaction and also how to retain team members through creating a culture of high performance.
What's included
11 videos3 readings3 assignments
This module focuses on adopting a style of leadership that is appropriate to coaching, mentoring and counselling employees in order to be able to retain them. It will focus on providing supportive leadership behaviours e.g during onboarding, that contribute towards developing employees through role model behaviours.
What's included
9 videos2 readings3 assignments
This module dwells on formulating customized and tailor made retention strategies, overcoming challenges in implementing those strategies and also determining appropriate measures and metrics to track the progress.
What's included
12 videos8 readings4 assignments
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