75% Of Your Management Team Was Offered Another Job This Year

Seventy-five percent of health and human service managers were offered another job this year—and 18% of them pursued that offer. Thirty-five percent of these managers say they are planning to leave their organization in the next year. Eighty-seven percent would consider leaving for the right opportunity. These were the most surprising of many findings in the recently released B.E. Smith's 2018 Healthcare Trends Survey, which made me think about retention (why do managers stay? and why do they leave?) and succession (what do we do if they leave?).

In planning talent management strategies, it . . .