How to Keep Your Top Talent: 12 Actionable Tips for Engaging Talent

Many successful mid-market companies have cracked the hiring code. Perhaps you use a hiring method like Topgrading to ensure that you bring in only the best people - the ones who are superstar contributors and a good fit for your culture and Core Values. But then what? How do you win the talent war?

In our current economy, with the meager unemployment rate and the rise in popularity of contract work, your top talent has more options than ever. And according to Gallup's latest State of the American Workplace Report, 51% of employees say they are actively looking for other opportunities. You must give them compelling reasons to stay, or you will just keep wasting resources to repeatedly hire and train for the same positions.

12 Ways to Engage Employees and Keep Top Talent

For more about how to engage and retain your best employees, check out our blog on employee engagement and motivation.

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