You’ve probably heard that building employee engagement “takes time.” And while it’s true that strong cultures grow over the long term, the idea that you have to wait years to see results is one of the biggest myths holding small businesses back. Because the truth is, you can start improving engagement — and retention — within weeks. You just have to focus on the right things first. Most engagement programs fail because they’re built like big-company initiatives: surveys, com

You finally get a full team. Everyone’s trained, working well together, and things are finally starting to run smoothly. Then someone leaves. You scramble to cover their work, post the job again, interview, hire, train — and just when things start to settle, someone else quits. It’s a frustrating cycle that feels never-ending: hire, train, lose, repeat. You start to wonder if this is just the reality of small business life. But it’s not. Turnover isn’t just about people leavi