12 Innovative Ideas To Improve Recruitment & Retention

Earlier this month, I attended the Lutheran Services In America Annual Conference in Chicago. At the event, like at many others I’ve attended over the past few years, there was one key topic that kept coming up again and again—staff recruitment and retention. During sessions, during networking conversations, during discussions among attendees, the conversation always circled back to the workforce challenges that are, in many ways, holding organizations back. We’ve covered these workforce issues, and some potential solutions, in the past: Workforce Shortages As A Strategy Issue; Workforce Problems? Technology As Strategy; and Recruit, Engage, Retain, Repeat . . .