Can you foster employee loyalty, productivity and reduce turnover?

Yes! You can build a family-friendly company culture designed to reinforce and increase the personal integrity of your employees. Such a culture will reduce the wasteful costs of employee turnover and absenteeism. It will increase your profit margins, maintain your competitiveness in the marketplace and contribute to making your customers happier and more satisfied. It will be a more profitable culture.

Family-friendly cultures are driven by values that focus people at all levels of an organization on developing meaningful personal relationships. These values also place importance on people helping one another in personal situations and on encouraging everyone to keep their family lives in balance with their work lives.

You will learn how to ...

• Involve your staff in developing and building a family-friendly culture where people feel trusted to get the work done.
• Help people feel free to take time to pick up a sick child at school, go to a parent-teacher conference with their spouse, or attend a special sporting event in which their child is participating.
• Encourage husbands and wives to share family responsibilities and meet special family member's needs when they occur.
• Schedule vacations that accommodate the needs of all family members.
• Help staff feel secure in their employment positions when they are on family leave.
• Determine the flexible use of bereavement leave to support family members in difficult situations arising from the death of a close or distant family member.