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Employee retention starts long before someone updates their résumé.
In this episode of Joyfully Unstoppable, Becky Hamm sits down with HR leader Crystal Moore Dudek to explore the leadership habits that create engaged employees, stronger teams, and healthier workplace cultures. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience across healthcare, logistics, retail, and transportation, Crystal shares practical strategies that every leader can implement to improve employee engagement, develop talent, and retain great people.
Whether you lead a small team or a large organization, you'll learn how everyday leadership decisions influence trust, accountability, professional growth, and long-term employee retention.
In this episode, we discuss:
• Building stronger one-on-one meetings
• Creating meaningful professional development conversations
• Supporting employees while maintaining accountability
• Addressing performance concerns early
• Recognizing improvement in ways that build confidence
• Avoiding leadership habits that drive employees away
• Practical strategies to improve employee retention
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:25 Meet Crystal Moore Dudek
02:39 Balancing leadership responsibilities and people leadership
05:18 Making one-on-one meetings more meaningful
08:13 Building professional relationships with your team
11:27 Defining great leadership
12:06 Supporting employees while holding them accountable
15:28 Recognizing growth and improvement
19:09 Leading professional development conversations
22:54 The qualities of great leaders and poor leaders
25:17 How great leaders improve employee retention
29:01 Connect with Crystal
30:14 Closing
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Connect with Crystal Moore Dudek on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystal-moore-dudek-phr-shrbp-cpc-1b99b41/
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