CFO Offers Route To Better Employee Retention, Company Success

CFO Offers Route To Better Employee Retention, Company Success

Workplaces also improve and create better retention rates when communications are sharpened. At Masonic, he explained, this included everything from refining the organization’s mission statement to designing a new company logo to make it clearer that services are open to the public, not just members of Masonic orders.

At the same session, rising Director of Nursing Noel Donato detailed how “cleaning house” was initially painful but ultimately wound up the right option at Wesley Des Moines, a continuing care retirement community in Des Moines, WA. He started with 35 nurses on staff two years ago and was soon down to five after removing poor workers and negative influences, he said. That included a former DNS.

He temporarily filled with agency nurses but now has handpicked staff members who take the initiative to expand their respective skill sets and abilities. There’s no more arriving to work mid-shift without consequences or operating two-person Hoyer lifts by one person with a bag of chips in one hand, he noted. “I said [to superiors] let’s be patient and wait to find the right person for the job.”  More