Doug Battista Announces Strategic Employee Retention Tactics Escondido, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) June 12, 2012 — After 15 years of experience strategically managing employee retention for companies like ARAMARK, Walt Disney, and Nestlé, Doug Battista says that the trick to keeping great employees on the payroll is simple: reward and acknowledge superior performance [...]

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Doug Battista grew up in a family that loved sports. Since his hometown team was the Pittsburgh Pirates, it was a given that Doug Battista would be a fan. Doug Battista still has fond childhood memories of attending opening day each year with his father, who was also a fan of this Major League Baseball club.

According to Doug Battista, the last winning season for the team was during his junior year in college. Still, the VP of Human Resources for Jenny Craig is a loyal fan, whether the team is winning or losing.

Even though Doug Battista and his father sat in the cheap seats at Three Rivers Stadium, he treasures those memories of his childhood. Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970, and fans attended Pittsburgh Pirates games there until 2000, when the stadium closed. As Doug Battista points out, the team had been lobbying for a new stadium for a couple of years at that point, due to the aging condition of the building. In 2001, Doug Battista reports that the Pirates relocated to PNC Park, which is often referred to as one of the best baseball parks in the country, thanks to its scenic view of the Pittsburgh skyline.

Doug Battista has many fond memories of Three Rivers Stadium, which was demolished in February of 2001. So far, according to Battista, the Three Rivers Stadium years have been the team’s heyday—a factor that will change once the team begins winning again. For fans like Doug Battista, however, Three Rivers Stadium represents the days of watching such legends as Bobby Bonilla, who took the Pirates to the playoffs three years in a row. The team’s golden years came to an end in 1992, Doug Battista recalls, when the team lost the playoffs in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Winning season or not, however, Doug Battista is proud that he and his father continue to go to Opening Day each year. Although Doug Battista’s work has moved him around the world—to Connecticut, then Texas, and now his current home of California—the Pirates fan makes a point to return home each year to Pittsburgh for the opening game of the season. It’s a tradition, after all.

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