The ideal ratio of Talent Management (TM) staff to staffing headcount varies by organisational need, but the general estimate is two TM staff per 100 employees. Given the current workforce challenges that TM staff are expected to address, TM staff must seek methods that amplify their contributions in the workplace.

It is an industry trend for institutions of higher education to experience turnover among development officers at the end of a campaign. As the University of Florida ends their historic Go Greater campaign, we will discuss creative strategies for engaging and retaining high-performing employees as a campaign ends.

Why is everyone leaving? It’s the question on the minds of talent managers everywhere, and it’s also the question on the minds of the executives, managers, and colleagues we serve. This session explores how data and talent metrics can be leveraged to track the health of your organization as team members move in, around, out of the organization. From compositional data to engagement surveys, recruitment metrics to exit interviews, and everything in between, we will look beyond pie charts and bar graphs to see the stories our data is telling. Knowing the story behind the data is the first, and most important, step to re-writing the ending.

Employee job satisfaction and feelings of belonging positively contribute to employee retention. Supportive supervisors can increase employees' feelings of belonging and job satisfaction, but in "lean" organizations, bandwidth for supervisor trainings is often limited. This session will explore how a VP of Advancement (and doctoral candidate in organizational leadership) partnered with colleagues across campus to implement leadership trainings for the university's supervisory staff that focused on building skills and community through small-group cohort discussions. The training led to increased job satisfaction for supervisors. It also increased belonging and satisfaction in their direct reports, as evidenced in post-workshop surveys and interviews in the presenter's doctoral research.