Effective Employee Retention Strategies to Combat Attrition

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S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research

Effective Employee Retention Strategies to Combat Attrition

Instructor: Dr. Sushmita Srivastava

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Understand and explain the impact of employee motivation on retention, ensuring alignment with retention goals.
Analyze retention issues across career stages and apply appropriate, tailored strategies.
Analyze and implement reverse mentoring techniques to engage and motivate millennials effectively.
Develop and evaluate strategies to create an inclusive and positive workforce, addressing turnover and enhancing satisfaction.

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There are 4 modules in this course

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

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

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

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
Goal Setting and Employee Retention 3 minutes
Dealing with Under-Performers 9 minutes
Hybrid, Remote and Flexible Work 8 minutes
Talent Mobility and Employee Retention 16 minutes

3 readings Total 30 minutes

Retaining Talent - Fortune Magazine 2022 10 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

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

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
Leaders’ Retention Capability - Succession Planning 12 minutes

2 readings Total 20 minutes

The Rise of Empathetic Leadership 10 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

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

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
Measurement and Tracking Employee Retention – Calculating Employee Turnover Rate 9 minutes
Predictive Retention Analytics 16 minutes
Use of Technology in Employee Retention 9 minutes
Opportunities and Challenges in Implementing Retention Strategies 9 minutes
Real-world Examples and Best Practices 10 minutes
Future Trends in Employee Retention Landscape 15 minutes
Course Wrap Up 3 minutes

8 readings Total 80 minutes

A Framework for Evaluating Talent Risk 10 minutes
Human Capital Management 10 minutes
25 Employee Retention Strategies That Work 10 minutes
HR Leaders unleashing retention success through employee well-being 10 minutes
How to Retain Talent in Your Business? - 5 Strategies - Rajiv Talreja 10 minutes
How AI boosts Talent Retention 10 minutes
Role of Talent Analytics in Talent Retention 10 minutes
12 Strategies to Retain Your Talent 10 minutes

4 assignments Total 90 minutes

Quiz - 4.1 20 minutes
Quiz - 4.2 20 minutes
Quiz - 4.3 20 minutes
Assessment - 4 30 minutes

Instructor

Dr. Sushmita Srivastava

S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research

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