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Your people are leaving.
That's costing you more
than you realize.

Spence Consultants helps healthcare, home care, and workforce organizations stop the turnover cycle — with proven audits, retention systems, and a 13+ year track record of measurable results.

30%
Average turnover reduction
95%
Program completion rate
13+
Years of verified results
$2–4M
Typical avoidable cost per 100 exits

These problems don't fix themselves — they compound.

Every month without a strategy, the gap between what you're spending and what you're losing grows wider.

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01

Turnover costs 50–200% of salary

Recruiting, onboarding, lost productivity, and training costs stack fast — and most organizations never see the full number.

$15–30K per frontline exit
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02

Managers are buried in backfill

When leaders spend 40% of their time recruiting rather than developing, your existing team suffers — and leaves next.

3–6 months to full productivity
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03

Quality and compliance erode

In regulated industries, chronic understaffing leads to care gaps, audit flags, and accreditation risk you can't afford.

High-turnover teams cite quality concerns
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04

Turnover breeds more turnover

Surviving staff carry heavier loads, morale drops, and your best performers exit first — a cycle most organizations never break without outside intervention.

Doubles risk of cascading exits

What does turnover actually cost your organization?

Adjust the sliders to see your real numbers.

250
28%
$42,000
30%

Your retention snapshot

Exits per year70
Cost per exit (125% of salary)$52,500
Total annual turnover cost$3,675,000
Exits prevented with strategy21
$1,102,500
Estimated annual savings with Spence Retention Strategy

Four phases. Measurable outcomes. No guesswork.

The Spence Workflow Audit goes deeper than surveys — it maps where your people, processes, and policies are breaking down, and delivers a roadmap to fix them.

A

Assess

360° intake: interviews, data review, culture inventory.

M

Map

Visualize workflow, handoff gaps, and role confusion.

I

Identify

Pinpoint the top 3–5 friction points driving exits.

R

Roadmap

Deliver a 90-day retention action plan with owners.

Phase A — Assess

We open every engagement by listening — not presenting. Through confidential 1:1 staff interviews, exit data analysis, HR record review, and a structured culture inventory, we develop an unfiltered baseline of your organization's current state. No surveys with leading questions. No assumptions.

Culture Inventory ReportExit Interview AnalysisLeadership Alignment SessionBaseline Metrics Dashboard

Phase M — Map

Using our proprietary workflow mapping methodology, we trace every major process — from onboarding to daily operations to offboarding — and visualize where handoffs fail, where accountability gaps exist, and where role confusion is silently burning out your people.

Workflow Process MapsHandoff Gap AnalysisRole Clarity MatrixSystem & Tool Audit

Phase I — Identify

Most organizations have dozens of problems and no idea which three actually drive departures. We use pattern analysis across all assessment data to surface the highest-leverage friction points — the ones that, when addressed, produce outsized retention gains across your workforce.

Bottleneck MapPriority Friction MatrixRoot Cause SummaryRisk Tier Report

Phase R — Roadmap

The final deliverable is a 90-day action plan with specific initiatives, named owners, measurable outcomes, and a 6-month retention target. Not a slide deck — a working document your leadership can execute with or without continued consulting support.

90-Day Action PlanOwner Assignment Matrix6-Month Retention TargetsRetainReady Integration Guide

Where do most organizations break down?

Our audit consistently reveals the same critical failure zones. Here's what that looks like across three common operational workflows.

Offer accepted
Pre-start comms
Inconsistent
Day 1 orientation
⚠ Top exit point
Buddy assignment
Often skipped
30-day check-in
Primary bottleneck: New hires arrive without equipment, credentials, or a clear first-week schedule. 40% of voluntary exits happen within the first 90 days — and the signal always traces back to a chaotic Day 1.
Healthy step
Needs attention
Critical bottleneck

Ready to stop the cycle?

Schedule a complimentary 30-minute discovery call and find out what your retention gaps are actually costing you.

13+ years in workforce consulting Healthcare & home care specialists RetainReady-certified methodology 95% program completion rate