What you'll learn:
- Why retention matters — and the true cost of losing top performers
- Designing competitive and compelling pay, benefits, and recognition packages
- Spotting early signs of disengagement and addressing them before turnover starts
- Navigating honest conversations when promotions or progression aren’t available
- Running effective check-in meetings that improve retention
- Managing mismatched expectations, blind spots, and difficult talent situations
- Using retention metrics and succession planning to create long-term stability
- Building a culture of growth, connection, and belonging that keeps people committed
Are you losing great people faster than you can replace them?
Struggling to keep your high performers motivated, engaged, and committed?
In a competitive talent market, retention isn’t a “nice to have”—it’s a leadership priority. Whether you work in HR, lead a team, or run an organisation, this course gives you practical, proven strategies to keep your best people right where they belong.
Retention isn’t luck. Pay and benefits matter, of course, but employees stay for deeper reasons: belonging, growth, recognition, development, clarity, connection, and great leadership. This course moves beyond theory and gives you straightforward, actionable tools you can apply immediately to strengthen engagement, reduce turnover, and create a workplace people don’t want to leave.
This course is for HR professionals, leaders, managers, and organisations wanting practical, evidence-based tools to retain top talent and reduce costly turnover.
I’m Fiona Dewar, and I bring 35 years of hands-on HR and leadership experience to this course. I’ve helped organisations struggling with high turnover, built retention strategies from the ground up, and coached leaders on how to keep top talent engaged and thriving. The tools and approaches you’ll learn come from real stories, real challenges, and real results—tested in the workplace, not lifted from textbooks.
Retention doesn’t happen by chance—it happens through leadership. If you want to reduce turnover, strengthen morale, build a culture of commitment, and keep your best people growing with you rather than leaving for someone else, enrol now and start building a workplace where great people want to stay.
