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Employee Engagement and Retention Strategies

Skilled people are hard to find and expensive to replace, yet many resignations are avoidable. This programme equips delegates to measure engagement honestly, diagnose why people disengage and build practical retention interventions that fit a tight budget. Case examples reflect the South African challenge of holding onto scarce and critical skills in a competitive market.

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What you will be able to do

  • Explain the drivers of employee engagement and their link to performance.
  • Design and run an engagement survey that produces honest, usable data.
  • Interpret engagement results and turn them into a prioritised action plan.
  • Build low cost retention interventions targeted at critical and scarce skills.
  • Conduct stay interviews that surface risks before people resign.
  • Track retention and engagement metrics that matter to executives.

Course outline

  1. 01What engagement really means
  2. 02Drivers of engagement and disengagement
  3. 03Designing and running engagement surveys
  4. 04Turning survey data into action
  5. 05Retention interventions on a budget
  6. 06Stay interviews and early warning signals
  7. 07Recognition and the employee experience
  8. 08Measuring engagement and retention impact

Who should attend

HR business partners, HR managers, team leaders and line managers who want to improve engagement and reduce avoidable staff turnover.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
13 to 15 Oct 2026Johannesburg3R13,000Register
14 to 16 Oct 2026Cape Town3R13,000Register
19 to 21 Oct 2026Durban3R13,000Register
20 to 22 Oct 2026Pretoria3R13,000Register
21 to 23 Oct 2026Windhoek3US$1,500Register
26 to 28 Oct 2026Gaborone3US$1,500Register
27 to 29 Oct 2026Maseru3US$1,500Register
28 to 30 Oct 2026Mbabane3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Nov 2026Lusaka3US$1,500Register
3 to 5 Nov 2026Harare3US$1,500Register
4 to 6 Nov 2026Lilongwe3US$1,500Register
9 to 11 Nov 2026Blantyre3US$1,500Register
10 to 12 Nov 2026Mozambique3US$1,500Register
11 to 13 Nov 2026Nairobi3US$1,500Register
16 to 18 Nov 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500Register
17 to 19 Nov 2026Kigali3US$1,500Register
18 to 20 Nov 2026Kampala3US$1,500Register
23 to 25 Nov 2026Accra3US$1,500Register
24 to 26 Nov 2026Lagos3US$1,500Register
25 to 27 Nov 2026Cairo3US$1,500Register
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Mauritius3US$1,500Register
1 to 3 Dec 2026Dubai3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Dec 2026Online3US$900Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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