As an employer you want to make sure you keep the talented workers you’ve spent time and effort finding and training. You want to build a positive and supportive workplace that inspires people in their work.

While you can never completely prevent staff from leaving your workplace, there are things you can do to improve your chances of holding on to valued staff.

Use the following resources to learn what you can do to keep your workers, and to make sure that they are engaged in and committed to your workplace.

Learn how to Keep Workers by Creating a Healthy Workplace

Knowing how to retain workers has a lot to do with knowing what contributes to a great job. Check WorkBC’s How to Attract, Retain and Engage Employees to learn how you can keep your workers by creating a healthy work environment.

Also see WorkBC’s Healthy Work Environments booklet for practical information on occupational health and safety, health promotion and organization health.

Discover More about How to Keep and Engage Your Workers

Find advice and information for keeping and engaging employees, as well as links to more resources on go2’s retention planning web page.

To dig deeper into some of the factors that boost employee engagement, check Ethos Career Management Group’s employer toolkit. You can also view their staffing strategies report for more on keeping staff and engaging employees.

Find out how to Create a Succession Plan

Wise planners find they can address productivity, retention and replacement by creating a succession plan for their business.

To learn how to create a succession plan for your business, see the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Succession planning and management guide for executives. Although it’s designed for the federal public service, the guide is useful to most businesses.