Christoph Lohr

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Christoph Lohr: One-on-one meetings with managers can solve retention challenges — Part 2

Data and examples show the effectiveness of one-on-one meetings

Christoph Lohr

March 25, 2019

Last month, I presented information about challenges companies face to retain and develop their employees.

One-on-one meetings with managers can solve retention challenges — Part 1

Retaining high-knowledge workers is key as baby boomers retire.

Christoph Lohr

February 25, 2019

The U.S. is seeing about 10,000 baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) retire per day. That means every day we lose knowledge from our industry due to retirements. The fact that so much of the construction industry is experience- or knowledge-based work makes this fact especially sobering, but the challenges don’t end there.