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Is this the year your organization will put guesswork behind you?

These strategies push back at the most common mistakes we're seeing with retention programs.

You shouldn't have to wonder if your efforts will be fruitful.

Get more information on the assessment we start with to get our clients to and beyond their employee retention goals: https://www.stokefire.com/retention-assessment

At Stokefire, we call this "embracing the wobble."

Read more about how you and your company's leaders can embrace the wobble for long-term mission effectiveness!

https://www.stokefire.com/post/embracing-stokefires-fifth-wobbling-value

Does your leadership group need to hear How to make Kick-Ass Strategic Decisions?

Are your SHRM chapter members hungry for retention strategies that deliver in their unique situation?

Is your executive group curious about How to Destroy Workplace Culture?

Book Britni Eisenmann for your event at [email protected]!

It's Strategic Planning season!

Your organizational values should be doing much of the heavy lifting of getting you to mission achievement. Are they?

Strategy Planning is a great vehicle for load-testing your values to see if they are aligned with who you are AND where you are going. When they are both of those things, you are better able to build a Strategic Plan that will help you withstand the unexpected storms, pressures, and even scary workforce trends.

We help organizations of all sizes construct values sets and strategic plans that are custom-built so that your mission achievement is inevitable, no matter what chaos rains down on your tomorrow.

Check out what we can do for you at https://www.stokefire.com

Problems hate us, because we blast them away so that our clients can achieve their critical missions, unburdened by the hidden tripwires their problems created.

Have a goal that everyone else says is impossible? Let's talk.

We've solved mission-critical problems:
🔥in war zones
🔥for whole industries
🔥after decades of entrenchment
🔥during economic downturns
🔥in hyper-partisan political climates

We'd love to do that same for you, too.

When you need to determine their current workflow but their busiest time is 5:45am

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Check it out!

https://lnkd.in/g-H4BpDH

Your organization should be a bridge to your future mission achievement!

We're the team you call when you need to build toward your mission without the interference of that barrier that no one has been able to resolve for you.

Need to double your funding or get that legislation passed or retain more employees? Let's talk.

Are your 20-somethings driving you nuts?

Listen as Britni Eisenmann speaks on what they really want.

And if AI is on your mind, skip to minute 22 for a special segment on what things could look like with your AI-fluent young employees!

https://hubs.li/Q01Y4lB10

*Hopeful* employees are likely to view impediments as challenges rather than threats.

*Hopeful* employee also tend to be quick to bounce back from any setbacks.

But how do you instill hope in your employees?

Values alignment.

It begins with hiring- bringing in folks whose core values are parallel or overlapping with your organization's values.

Then, when the initiatives you push out into your workforce are aligned with your organizational values, hope abounds.

But that's not all!

Resilience is just the first outcome you get from instilling hope in your employees.

You also get a boost in employees' intention to stay!

Here's how it works, for you thinkers out there.

1. 'Employee hope' lends to hitting goals, because hope is future oriented AND is a positive emotion.

2. Hitting goals lends to the belief that the company is functioning well, and the employee can better see how their success lends to the company's overall success.

3. When employees understand exactly how their work helps the company with mission achievement, they are less likely to think about leaving.

So what's the take-away here?

If you need resilience in your workforce and you implement what it takes to get that, you will ALSO reap the reward of more employees choosing to stick with you!

Need to move that mountain that's been in the way of your success for 40 years? Or do you need to pull the right lever to win the war on talent?
We've got you!

We excel at intractable problems and impossible goals, because every solution is built only after we understand the full context of who you are and where you need to go.

Need that mountain moved? Email [email protected] to get a conversation with Tate!

Filling the pothole doesn't address the cause of the pothole.
The real problem is hidden under the surface.

Organizations tend to do the same thing, treat visible symptoms instead of their causes.

If you are facing an employee retention challenge, applying a new retention strategy will work ...for a little while.

But without identifying and solving the cause of your retention, you'll find yourself in the same predicament soon.

Our methodology identifies the hidden causes of your organizational potholes so that they can be effectively addressed and stop repeatedly costing you time and resources.

Our Retention Assessment allows us to delineate between your symptoms and your causes so that your best path forward is clear.

Ready to stop throwing your money at temporary and expensive patches season after season? Get more info about how we do it here: https://lnkd.in/gQDrsfDj

We're the people you call when you have a massive goal and lots of moving parts that need be pulled into alignment with where you're going.

Our process gets clients results that are relevant and dependable years later, because we find and fix every hidden controllable factor that's contributing to the "stuff" that feels impossible to align.

That way, instead of constantly re-solving the same organizational problems every few years, our clients know exactly where to look the moment things begin to get off track.

Want that for your organization?
Dm us today to start the conversation.

This type of ROI, for your organization.

Being held back by a barrier that feels out of your control? Let's talk.

Here's our client case study the graphic refers to: https://lnkd.in/gxyrAzTa

At Stokefire, we tend to take on big impossible-feeling client challenges.

This started due to Tate's ability to see through challenges in a way other strategic thinkers and their models haven't been able to crack.

Have a goal or challenge that your board and staff haven't been able to get at?

You don't have to walk away from it. Have a conversation with us!

Ready to remove turnover as a barrier to your success?

SHRM research indicates that employee replacement costs and indirect losses to productivity are higher than previously believed.

A single $30K employee out the door will cost as much as $60K to replace, and when and turnover rates rise, the costs can go up twice as fast.

If you're experiencing rising turnover - or want to bring your numbers down - it quite literally pays to get a solid understanding of the issues contributing to voluntary termination at your company.

And there's even more value to be had in addressing the challenges you uncover.

Turnover of just twenty entry-level employees can cost you upwards of a million dollars annually.

We've developed a process that gives your team clarity on your hidden retention risks and strengths, how you got where you are today, and how to move forward with improved retention.

And we can do it in less than 50 working days.

For small and mid-sized businesses, we can help you improve retention for the cost of a single lost employee.

If we're able to help you retain just one more employee, you've made back your investment.

Interested? Check out more about the Assessment here: https://www.stokefire.com/retention-assessment

Sometimes we get to save lives with our work.

Sometimes we turn an $80k investment into $3b.

One time, we got to do both!

We can get the same type of ROI for you. If your mission is too critical to fail, let's talk.

https://www.stokefire.com/post/making-impossible-behavior-change-inevitable

Making Impossible Behavior Change Inevitable Way back in the twenty-teens Iowa had a problem. The state’s roads and bridges were crumbling and unsafe, but no funds were available to do anything more than fix stuff well after it broke. It cost the driving public tens of millions of lost hours spent in traffic and hundreds of millions in vehic...

Britni will help build and benchmark The State of Employee Retention 2023 survey.

She'll also share discoveries and trends from Stokefire's work via HR.com publications and events.
More on that coming soon!

If you are tired of losing the war on talent, let's talk. Stokefire specializes in deep-rooted organizational issues that others haven't been able to solve for you.

You will NEVER get a regurgitated solution from us.

Your organization didn't materialize from a 'business in a box' kit, and neither should your solutions.

We have yet to build two clients the same solution, because we have yet to find two clients who are the same.

You've got complicated challenges because you're a complicated organization with a critical mission? We're the strategic consultant for you.

Britni is at her local SHRM chapter’s conference today, and was featured on their MikEd Podcast.

Your HR function is important, and they can show you where challenges are brewing before you see them from your executive chair!

Straight from Tate:
Sometimes we think we know everything we need to know about our values.

And then we try to talk or write about them and realize that, no, we didn't.

Or at least that's what just happened to me.

I just posted this as part of a larger discussion of values and integrity earlier today on Stokefire's blog:

"None of us are perfect. We all screw up. Presidents, Janitors, Kings, Accountants, Astronauts, Parents, Kids...

ALL period OF period US period.

No exceptions.

Making mistakes, doing the wrong thing, or causing harm doesn’t automatically mean that we can’t have integrity. That’s not the issue at all.

It’s what we do after we do wrong that determines whether we are capable of integrity.

In a way, our personal and organizational missteps are a bit like the airplane turbulence I talked about earlier, though with a slightly different focus.

A pilot doesn’t lack integrity as a pilot because they encounter turbulence. They don’t even necessarily lose integrity when they make a mistake in response to that turbulence.

Their integrity is only lost when they refuse to acknowledge or adjust to those things.

The mistakes, screw ups, turbulence, or wobble... Those are the moments where we have the opportunity to grow."

Seemed like something worth sharing.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Britni participated in a live debate today with three other organizational development experts!

If you're wondering about inter-generational challenges and your organization's strategy and culture, this is for you.

You can catch the replay here:
https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7063885387626135552/

The -most- complex value we claim at Stokefire is explained on the blog today!

https://www.stokefire.com/post/connecting-to-stokefire-s-4th-core-value

We create behavior change.

Whether your challenge is related to employee turnover, getting a conservative state governor to raise billions in taxes for critical infrastructure, or anything in between- we've done it before and we can do it for you!

How should we *do* accountability that doesn't demand perfection but still propels us to honor our commitments?

Shared understanding is a precursor to agreement.

Agreement is itself required to reasonably hold someone accountable.

When shared understanding is missing it becomes almost impossible to make meaningful progress or even effectively defend one’s actions.

Accountability tools are abundant, but your team can't use them effectively until you first have a shared understanding.

Get more information about how, here: https://www.stokefire.com/post/stokefire-s-third-value-be-accountable

We are truth-telling and myth-busting all about organizational values on the blog this week!

You can get it here: https://www.stokefire.com/post/myth-your-organizational-values-cant-hurt-you

The blog is back!

After a hiatus of a few years as Stokefire transitioned from its agency days to organizational development, Tate Linden is writing philosophical analysis of topics that matter most to mission-driven leaders and the organizations they build and run.

https://www.stokefire.com/blog