Why this isn’t another engagement survey
Most organizations don’t fail because they didn’t listen.
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They fail because:
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too many issues were surfaced at once
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no one agrees on what matters most
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decision ownership is unclear
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and accountability for follow-through never materializes
Engagement surveys generate data.
They rarely generate decisions.
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In practice, the people best positioned to make tradeoffs are often too senior —
so the work gets handed off to HR.
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HR can facilitate, synthesize, and support.
But they can’t make business decisions — or hold leaders accountable for them.
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When everything stays on the table:
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leaders hedge
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managers get mixed signals
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teams feel whiplash
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credibility erodes
Over time, employees learn the pattern:
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“They’ll ask. Nothing will happen.”
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That’s when disengagement stops being noisy
— and starts becoming expensive.
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Listening isn’t the problem.
What’s missing is a way to turn what’s heard into decisions.
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The Workforce Risk Assessment is a short, third-party diagnostic designed to do exactly that. It synthesizes existing data and targeted listening into a clear view of where preventable workforce risk is accumulating — and what leadership must decide now.
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The work culminates in a focused leadership readout, where tradeoffs are named, priorities are forced, and ownership is made explicit.
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What leaders walk away with
After the Leadership Readout, leaders leave with:
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A clear articulation of the top workforce risks — and where they are already costing the business
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Alignment on why those risks matter now, not someday
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Agreement on what to focus on next — and what to stop
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At least one explicit, owned decision made in the room
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A written decision record that locks focus, assigns accountability, and prevents drift
This is not about fixing everything.
It’s about forcing the right decisions — and following through.
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Investment and scope
This is a fixed-fee, time-bound diagnostic — not hourly consulting.
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The scope and investment are set during intake, based on the level of workforce risk, decision complexity, and organizational context identified.
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Most Workforce Risk Assessments are completed within approximately 30 days and are designed to deliver decision-grade clarity, not ongoing advisory work.
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In most organizations, the cost of not deciding far exceeds the cost of the assessment.
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If you’re looking for a contained diagnostic that forces prioritization and leads to real decisions, we should talk.
About Stay
Over the past 15+ years, I’ve worked inside and alongside organizations dealing with disengagement, attrition, and change — across scale-ups, public sector environments, and complex, regulated teams.
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The patterns are consistent.
Risk shows up early.
Leaders sense it.
But without clear ownership and forced prioritization, it gets normalized — until good people leave or performance slips.
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The Workforce Risk Assessment exists to interrupt that pattern before the cost becomes visible.