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Workforce Challenges

Start with the workforce challenge you need to solve.

The workforce challenges you see are rarely the whole story. Explore the underlying drivers, the business impact, and the research-backed actions that can help you move forward.

Workforce challenges often show up first as symptoms: turnover, disengagement, strained managers, or difficulty retaining key people. The visible issue is rarely the full story. The work starts by understanding what is driving it.

Workforce challenges we help solve

Five workforce challenges that require more than surface-level answers.

Each challenge begins with the issue leaders are seeing, then connects it to the research, insight, and action needed to address what is underneath it.
Challenge 01
“We're losing people in their first year.”
Reduce First-Year Turnover
When early exits become an expensive pattern instead of an isolated issue.

More than a third of turnover happens inside year one — and most of it traces to the first weeks, not the offer letter.

Onboarding Studies Exit Interviews
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Challenge 02
“Turnover is too high and we don't know why.”
Lower Employee Turnover
When turnover is disrupting performance, culture, and continuity.

Three in four departures are preventable when the causes are known early. Exit and stay data make them known.

Exit Interviews Stay Interviews
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Challenge 03
“Our top talent keeps getting poached.”
Retain Key Talent
When the people you cannot afford to lose are becoming harder to keep.

High performers rarely signal before they leave. Stay interviews surface flight risk while there is still time to act.

Stay Interviews Engagement Studies Exit Interviews
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Challenge 04
“Engagement scores are flat, year after year.”
Improve Engagement Scores
When survey results are not translating into meaningful change.

Scores tell you that engagement is stuck — not why. Interviews find the reasons the survey flattens out.

Engagement Studies Action Planning
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Challenge 05
“Our managers aren't moving the needle.”
Develop Better Managers
When managers need clearer insight and stronger support to lead well.

Manager behavior is a leading cause of both leaving and staying. Development works when it's grounded in your employees' feedback.

Leadership Insight & Development Manager Impact Assessments
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Not sure where to start?
“We know something's wrong — we just can't name it yet.”

Put your headcount and turnover rate into the calculator — the size of the number points at the problem worth solving first.

One standard of evidence

Different problems. The same disciplined path.

Whichever challenge you start from, the work follows three steps — so the answer you get is a cause you can act on, not a chart to file.

See our approach 
01
Listen & diagnose together
The method matches your question — not the other way around.
02
Learn from your employees
Causes in employees' own words, benchmarked against ~1M interviews.
03
Act with clarity & confidence
Prioritized moves, owners, and re-measurement — not a report on a shelf.
The next step

Recognize your problem? Let's find its cause.

A scoped conversation with a workforce strategy expert — your situation, the likely causes, and the research that would confirm them.