Employee turnover costs can be significant for any company, but do you know what costs even more?

Apathy. 

When workers are demotivated, they’ll fall back on doing the absolute bare minimum. They may be mostly doing their job, but they likely aren’t doing it well and they don’t really care anymore. That kind of disengagement has an insidious long-term effect that goes beyond the individual employee. It eats away overall productivity for the entire team or company. 

They fell asleep on the job. This wasn’t the first time. But they’d been a star employee!

How can business leaders deal with sensitive situations with problematic employees without putting the company at risk or risk losing productivity?

They just almost cost you $200,000. Now what?!

Learn how one company navigated a tricky situation with an older, once reliable employee that was failing hard with support from Gary and Catalytic Coaching.

What do you do when your entire succession plan hinges on someone that is floundering?
Is it safe to dive below the surface and tackle personal issues?
Here is the story of a business owner who found himself in that uncomfortable position and how he used coaching to successfully resolve it.

It may be hard to believe, but your performance management system could be hurting you in the job market! Candidates are more savvy than ever before. They know what they want from their careers and they’re looking at every aspect of your company when considering an opportunity.

Here are 3 ways your performance management could be hurting your recruiting efforts AND how to fix it!

It’s easy to SAY you don’t want to do performance reviews, but then what do you do instead?
Here is a framework for performance management that leverages coaching to create a win for the company AND the employee, leading to higher employee retention, satisfaction, and productivity.

Managers need to be having purposeful conversations that engage employees and get them invested in the success of both their own career and the company’s success. Having these conversations sounds intuitive, but it can be difficult for managers to navigate them.

We’ve made it a bit easier with these 5 proven ways to motivate your employees.

Employees are STILL resigning at record rates. Gary teams up with Josh McAfee again to revisit the ongoing game companies must play to attract and retain their top talent. Get insight into winning Finders Keepers in today’s job market.

Do you know why some companies have survived the past couple year despite the chaos? RESILIENCY.

Here are 5 ways you can leverage coaching to build resiliency for both your organization and your employees.

The starting gun has been fired and everyone is off to 2022.

Get 4 ways to ensure you bring home the gold this year in this 3 minute read.

by Gary Markle

I almost ruined my career simply by doing what I thought I was supposed to do. One man helped me save it, but he had to go around the system to do that.

Business leaders have to make some tough choices about where to spend their limited time and energy. It’s been especially hard to do that for the last couple of years. How are you supposed to navigate the swamp when there’s all these alligators on your tail?

Jim Collins compared a company to a bus with leadership in the driver seat.

So the question is: WHO is on your bus and HOW are you going to ensure they’re supposed to be there?

Doing things the easy way often means going back to redo them the right way eventually. The old saying goes “measure twice and cut once” for a reason. Of course taking that extra time also runs into another old adage: Time is money. Finding the right balance between quality and speed makes all the difference.

When understaffed or overbooked, what are an employee’s options in facing a challenge that appears overwhelming?

Your Employees Are:

• Compromising Integrity

• Burning Out Fast

• Struggling To Keep Up

• Disappointing Customers

• Risking Failure or WORSE!

Here are actionable tips for preventing or repairing the damage done when employees make The Impossible Choice.

The tables have turned and companies are dreading to hear The Big Goodbye from their top talent.
Here are the most common reasons employees leave and how to prevent that.

When you lose a great employee, you’re suffering strategic setbacks, wrecking team morale, and watching your productivity and profits flounder. Right now, more companies than ever are drowning in an unprecedented Turnover Tsunami.

Learn how YOU can protect your business.

I left a job I loved. A job I had a passion for.

And my experience is not unique. You have employees that have experienced something very similar. Maybe it was at your organization, maybe it wasn’t. Either way, they bring that with them to work every day and it makes them more likely to walk out the door.

How are those strategic to-dos coming along? It's not easy to balance your workload in way that ensures both you and your business thrive.

Here are four principles every successful CEO will have to overcome.

A mountaineer can’t climb Everest without the proper gear and you can’t lead a company to success without the right people in the right roles.
These four principles will ensure you scale those heights and achieve the growth you need.