Caregiver retention is a critical component to the success for any Home Care Provider. Retention of your key employees is difficult in any time period with 67% of employees disengaged at work and 51% reporting that they are actively looking for a new job or...
The COVID-19 outbreak has created fear and uncertainty among your team, particularly among homecare caregivers who are providing care to your clients on a daily basis. To successfully navigate through this challenging period, it is imperative that you as the leader communicate to your homecare...
While the Covid-19 outbreak is affecting you, your staff and your clients and is requiring you to operate in different ways than you have in the past, there is one thing that you need to continue to do – recruit Homecare Caregivers to work for...
In today’s highly competitive Homecare job market, it is important for you to get and keep great Homecare Caregivers. Using effective listening skills with all your team members and in particular your Homecare Caregivers is very important to their retention and engagement. Like an acrobat spinning many plates...
Identify What Motivates Your Caregivers For Better Engagement In our last blog (Understanding Your Homecare Caregivers Motivation to Improve Their Retention), we described four principal types of non-financial (intrinsic) motivators of your Caregivers and several ways to align Caregiver work assignments with the strongest motivators for them. We will...
Finding and keeping great Caregivers is your most important job as the leader of your Homecare organization. The changing needs of the new workforce are making this harder than ever to accomplish. CAREGIVER ENGAGEMENT IS KEY One of the most important things you need to retain...
Just Remember SMTP Quality in-home caregivers are critical to assuring success for your Homecare agency, but low unemployment in the US has created competition for good caregivers among Homecare agencies that have led to very high levels of employee turnover. High turnover makes it difficult for...
A Relaxed Mind is a mind able to retain more information A research study published by researchers from Ball State University showed that those who practice mindfulness and meditation before a verbal learning session retain more information. This shows that if you calm your mind before...
10 Ways to help your caregivers feel appreciated every day. The home care community is in a caregiver retention crisis. Last year the home care industry saw over 80% turnover levels across the nation according to the article in Personal Home Care, Home Care Industry Turnover...
Last year the home care industry experienced record turnover levels of 80%. This is having far-reaching effects on the ability of home care providers to manage and retain staff. Better engaging your care teams can help reduce turnover. Creating “SMART” goals for them will help...
