Keep Your Best Employees With a Motivational Speaker

The credit crunch has forced businesses to be more careful than ever before about who they decide to employ. Although in better times average candidates might have been given the opportunity to prove themselves, only the very best will do now. Many companies have survived the recession thanks to their policy of hiring only the very best, most productive personnel. Now however the challenge is not finding the best employees, it is keeping them. Now that times are better, the very best and brightest employees can get the jobs they really want and command the salaries they believe they deserve. In order to save costs of recruiting and training replacements, the savviest businesses will now be turning their attention to keeping staff retention as high as possible. A good number are enlisting the help of a motivational speaker.


A lot of companies enlist the help of a motivational speaker to work with their Human Resources staff. In this context, the motivational speaker trains the HR staff on the best ways to go about keeping morale and motivation high amongst the staff. This approach can be especially helpful because unhappy employees or people who are unhappy or have grievances will normally report to HR staff first. If a motivational speaker can help the HR staff to boost the general morale of the personnel then this is a great positive.

In other companies, the favoured approach is to ask the motivational speaker to address the entire personnel, perhaps at a training day. A good motivational speaker understands that in order for staff to be happy at work they must feel appreciated in their role and must feel as though they have a particular role to play. The speaker will probably wish to mention the company’s goals and instil a shared vision in all employees.

Furthermore, the happiest employees are those who feel they have a clear career path mapped out. A motivational speaker must work to ensure staff are aware of their goals and where they are aiming to be. Staff are much more likely to remain in their current jobs if they feel appreciated, happy, productive and empowered and a speaker can achieve all this.