Did you know that investing energy into your employees’ satisfaction can increase your retention rate by as much as 400% and reduce recruiting costs by over 70%? 

Recent studies have shown that 85% of highly satisfied employees intend staying with the same employer for more than two years while only 19% of dissatisfied employees would do the same? 

And before you are tempted say “Who wants to keep dissatisfied employees?” let’s make a quick distinction here; some of your most dissatisfied employees may be amongst your most productive employees! They are driven by their own agendas to “deliver the goods” but the company isn’t doing what it could to make them feel valued. They are swimming against the current, just waiting to jump ship at the next decent offer. Imagine what they could accomplish with your corporate energy behind them!

How much are you forking out to recruitment agencies? That may well be an excellent indicator of your employee satisfaction rating! In the same study, 71% of highly satisfied employees indicated that they would “definitely” recommend their employer to friends against 0% of dissatisfied employees. Another 23% would “probably” recommend their employer against 9% of dissatisfied employees. 

A whopping 94% of highly satisfied employees in your company could be helping you to recruit new staff … and then you would need to recruit less often because they are 400% more likely to stay longer! 

And all you have to do to create this scenario … is to make them feel better about the company and their sense of place within it. 

Get the picture? Invest in employee satisfaction or squander your hard earned profits on recruitment agencies and motivation training! 

And then consider the positive impact an employee-friendly environment could have on absenteeism and shrinkage as well as a host of other wasteful practices. 

And here’s another thing, in an online survey of over 10,000 respondents, 84% believed that their companies could be more productive. Only 16% felt their companies were highly productive. 

Unless your company has a strategy directly focused on optimising employee satisfaction, you can bet your bottom dollar that it’s probably languishing somewhere in the 84% that could do with a boost. 

Honestly, how well are you doing right now? 

Plain and simple, employee satisfaction should be right near the top of your management priorities! 

Matching Agendas, the simple art of caring, can help you get it there quickly and effectively through asking just four simple, liberating questions;

• What do I want?
• What am I prepared to do to achieve what I want?
• What do you want?
• How can we work together to get what we both want? 

I am no guru but I do know this; most people prefer to be happy … at home and at work. So why not give them the opportunity to be what they naturally want to be? Make employee satisfaction a high management priority by creating an employee-friendly environment that focuses on key performance indicators that enhance employee satisfaction such as;

• Happiness
• Initiative
• Loyalty
• Motivation 
• Productivity

Your employees want to be more of all the above … about as much as you probably do!

The principles of employee satisfaction espoused in the four Matching Agendas questions have been an essential tool in my own businesses for over thirty years. The principles have worked for me and, making employee satisfaction a high priority, clearly works well for the companies that make it onto Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best companies to work for in America”.

It can work for your company too. In fact I guarantee that Matching Agendas will work for you!

My 90-Day “Real Results” Money-back Guarantee.

If, within 90 days, you do not see “Real Results” in your employees’ attitudes to their work and the organisation, you get all your money back.  (See more in the presentation pack)

And, as important as employee satisfaction is, there’s a whole lot more on the table because the same Matching Agendas principles can just as easily be applied to your suppliers and customers as they do to your employees. In fact, any relationship! 

Let Matching Agendas show you how, with a few simple, cost-effective tools, we can help you to rapidly achieve new levels of performance with your team. 

Expensive reward and incentive schemes have their place but creating an employee-friendly environment often costs little more than a leader’s change of heart and mind! 

Let Matching Agendas help you and your employees get onto the same page … and then start working together consistently with common vision and purpose. 

Matching Agendas Professional, the company version, focuses on the professional relationship between people within an organization. 

Matching Agendas Professional enables both company and employee to quickly identify ways in which both can contribute constructively towards the other’s success during a  (relatively) short working relationship.

Matching Agendas Professional includes a unique, company-specific workshop manual compiled especially for your company after consultation with the executive leadership. This simple, easy to understand handbook becomes an effective tool for ongoing communication and cooperation within the organisation. (It’s simple and easy to understand so that it doesn’t gather dust on your employees bookshelves … they will want to use it regularly!)

If you want to learn how Matching Agendas Professional can help your company create an employee-friendly environment please complete the form below and we will be happy to assist you.

I will also send you the following two free articles to underline just how important it is to unlock the awesome, untapped potential of the people who work with and for you.

I will also send you free reports that drive home the importance of creating an employee-friendly working environment. 

• “How investing in intangibles – like employee satisfaction – translates into financial returns”
• ‘Feeling the Love’ (or Anger): How Emotions Can Distort the Way We Respond to Advice.

You can also try Matching Agendas for free!

You can also try Matching Agendas for free for yourself and discover how to take your personal and professional relationships to new heights.

What’s the difference between the Matching Agendas Free version and Matching Agendas Professional? 

Matching Agendas Free Version focuses is on building enduring, life-long relationships that enrich the lives of all involved. Friendship and feelings are more important than results! Whereas Matching Agendas Professional focuses on the professional relationship between people within an organization. Contribution and results are more important than feelings.

Whether you want to heal a broken relationship, start a new friendship or plan on getting married (the ultimate lifetime partnership), you definitely need to understand Matching Agendas, the simple art of caring.

Try it for free by filling in your name and email address in the subscription form below and get the FREE 14-Day Matching Agendas “How to get along with just about anyone!” e-course and transform your personal and professional relationships. 

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Still not sure? Consider this. 

A smile costs nothing but it’s presence can make the difference between winning or losing a sale (or winning a promotion)! Repeat this many times a day within a business and it isn’t hard to see the value of a smile on a company’s bottom line. 

When something as simple as a smile can make such a massive difference to a company’s effectiveness, maybe even it’s survival, why do so businesses pay so little attention to the emotional well-being of their employees? 

The same may be said of initiative, loyalty and motivation, each one has a direct effect on the effectiveness of any business or organisation. 

A person’s feelings determine how well they perform at anything, work or play. How your employees feel about themselves, their colleagues, their work and the company will, in large part, determine how well they perform their work on any particular day. 

As simple as a smile may be, few companies make the effort to create an employee-friendly environment in which happiness, initiative and loyalty are the norm rather than the exception.  

Matching Agendas Professional, addresses the very heart of professional relationship-building where happiness, initiative and loyalty stand side by side with motivation and productivity as important key performance indicators within the organisation. 

Great companies understand the importance of investing in the total well-being of their employees because they understand that it always works it’s way into the bottom line.

Let Matching Agendas show you how, with a few simple, cost-effective tools, we can help you to rapidly achieve new levels of performance within your company.

Bad companies are destroyed by crises, good companies survive them, great companies are improved by them.” (Intel CEO, Andy Grove 1996)

It’s in the storm that a ship is put to the test.