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.
Upon completing this course, you will:
1. Diagnose impact of employee motivation on Employee Retention
2. Examine retention issues at various stages of an Employee life cycle/ career stages
3. Analyse the role of "Reverse Mentoring" in motivating the Millennials
4. Formulate Strategies for creating an inclusive, positive and an engaged workforce
5. Address issues of turnover and satisfaction
6. Derive strategies for retaining team members
7. Understanding appropriate leadership styles and behaviours to facilitate employee retention
8. Examine the dimensions of Leadership Coaching
9. Building perspectives and skills on mentorship, coaching and counselling
10. Designing and Delivering customized Retention Plans
11. Overcoming challenges in Employee retention
12. Evaluating metrics and measures on Employee retention and applying retention analytics to mitigate attrition
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.
What's included
10 videos10 readings5 assignments
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10 videos•Total 78 minutes
Meet Your Faculty - Dr. Sushmita Srivastava•2 minutes
Introduction to the Course•5 minutes
Introduction to Employee Turnover: Why do People Stay and Why do People Leave?•6 minutes
Employee Stickiness•7 minutes
Turnover: Causes and Consequences •10 minutes
Theories of Turnover •10 minutes
Calculating Employee Turnover•5 minutes
Linkage between Motivation and Retention•16 minutes
Bridging the Generational Divide•5 minutes
Talent Retention in the Gig Economy•11 minutes
10 readings•Total 100 minutes
Meet Your Faculty - Dr. Sushmita Srivastava•10 minutes
Course Syllabus, Structure and Planning•10 minutes
Honor Code•10 minutes
5 things that make workers stay at their jobs (hint: it’s not salary)•10 minutes
The uncomfortable truth that CEOs must face about employee retention•10 minutes
Getting People to Stay - Simon Sinek•10 minutes
10 Reasons why employees stay in a company•10 minutes
Leading with purpose to address talent scarcity•10 minutes
Effectively managing a multi-generational workforce•10 minutes
Millennial Employees and Employee Retention - Cara Silletto•10 minutes
5 assignments•Total 110 minutes
Quiz - 1.1•20 minutes
Quiz - 1.2•20 minutes
Quiz -1.3•20 minutes
Quiz - 1.4•20 minutes
Assessment - 1•30 minutes
Creating an Positive Employee Experience
Module 2•4 hours to complete
Module details
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
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11 videos•Total 113 minutes
Creating a Positive Employee Experience Part-1•8 minutes
Creating a Positive Employee Experience Part-2•12 minutes
Building a Culture of Inclusion to Foster Belongingness Part-1•12 minutes
Building a Culture of Inclusion to Foster Belongingness Part-2•15 minutes
Career Development Opportunities and Retention•5 minutes
Role of Employee Well-being in Combating Attrition•14 minutes
High-Performing Culture and Their Role in Employee Retention•11 minutes
Mastering Talent Acquisition and Retention 2024•10 minutes
How Internal Talent Mobility Boosts Engagement, Development, and Retention•10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 70 minutes
Quiz - 2.1•20 minutes
Quiz - 2.2•20 minutes
Assessment - 2•30 minutes
Leaders as Role Models for Fostering Retention
Module 3•3 hours to complete
Module details
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
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9 videos•Total 89 minutes
Self-Awareness and Leadership Trust•11 minutes
Compassionate Leadership for Retaining Employees•7 minutes
Leadership Humility and Retention•10 minutes
Exemplary Leadership Practices, Behaviours Impact on Attrition•5 minutes
Leaders as Role Models Shaping the Retention Behaviours•11 minutes
Coaching and Mentoring for Employee Retention•11 minutes
Six Emotional Leadership Styles and Retention•14 minutes
The What, why, and How of Life-Long Learning and impact on Retention•7 minutes
Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Stay—and The Behaviors Leaders Need to Retain Them •10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 70 minutes
Quiz - 3.1•20 minutes
Quiz - 3.2•20 minutes
Assessment - 3•30 minutes
Execution Excellence in Implementing Retention Strategies and Tactics
Module 4•5 hours to complete
Module details
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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12 videos•Total 105 minutes
Different strokes for different folks – Deriving a Customised Retention Plan•5 minutes
Talent Retention Strategy: Applying appropriate retention framework Model – to Address Challenges Part 1•9 minutes
Talent Retention Strategy: Applying appropriate retention framework Model – to Address Challenges Part - 2•8 minutes
Talent Retention Strategy: Applying appropriate retention framework Model – to Address Challenges Part - 3•5 minutes
Barriers to Implementing a Talent Retention Strategy•7 minutes
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