10 Steps to Improve Employee Retention and Motivation. 1. Know what's important to your employees. 2. Build digital communities. 3. Be transparent and share information. 4. Take regular "team pulse checks". 5. Harvest the knowledge and talent of the team. 6. Acknowledge desirable behaviors. 7. Resolve frustrating or time-consuming tasks. 8. Provide ongoing performance feedback. 9. Expect and Reward Excellence. 10. Be patient.

How do you increase employee engagement? Here's 7 ways to engage your employees: 1. Give employees a voice 2. Take a weekly "team pulse" check. 3. Start a "Team Feed" to share ideas. 4. Build connected "digital communities". 5. Ask employees how they would improve the workplace. 6. Show employees they can make an impact. 7. Give kudos to scale desirable behaviors.