Creative signing bonuses may be the key to luring great staff members in the current tight labor market. It's widely known that staffers who are successful in their jobs are more likely to stay in them. Employee surveys often link job satisfaction to training opportunities. Too often, however, employers fearing high turnover resist training their staff members. No team will play in a championship game without first having practiced repeatedly.
Training requires conditioning to insure that peak fitness is maintained.
Game films will be reviewed to insure that successes are repeated and mistakes corrected. In many retail businesses, however, little thought is given to the training routine. Meetings are held infrequently and most of the agenda is focused on distributing information, not in improving performance. Even within the industry distributing the product, retailers hesitate to use video as a training tool because sales associates hate role-play and don't perform well in front of their peers. Instead of trying new ideas on each other, we practice them at game time with the customer.