Targeting Turnover: Make Managers Accountable, Win the Workforce Crisis
Sep 2025 · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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The workforce crisis is here—and retaining your best employees is no longer optional.
In Targeting Turnover, Dick Finnegan draws on decades of experience and groundbreaking data to reveal a stark truth: the US is running out of workers. As baby boomers retire and birthrates fall, the only sustainable path forward is to keep the good employees you already have.
This book offers a proven, research-backed strategy for doing just that—by building trust between employees and their immediate supervisors.
Forget one-size-fits-all solutions like pay and perks. The top predictor of retention and engagement is whether employees trust their boss. Yet most first-line leaders have never been trained—or held accountable—for building that trust.
Finnegan delivers a call to action: make employee retention an executive-driven priority and equip your leaders to lead differently.
You will learn how to do the following:
In Targeting Turnover, Dick Finnegan draws on decades of experience and groundbreaking data to reveal a stark truth: the US is running out of workers. As baby boomers retire and birthrates fall, the only sustainable path forward is to keep the good employees you already have.
This book offers a proven, research-backed strategy for doing just that—by building trust between employees and their immediate supervisors.
Forget one-size-fits-all solutions like pay and perks. The top predictor of retention and engagement is whether employees trust their boss. Yet most first-line leaders have never been trained—or held accountable—for building that trust.
Finnegan delivers a call to action: make employee retention an executive-driven priority and equip your leaders to lead differently.
You will learn how to do the following:
- Use stay interviews and practical tools to reduce turnover
- Hold managers accountable for engagement and retention
- Understand the real costs of attrition—and how to reverse them
- Apply forecasting and metrics to drive leadership behavior
The workforce crisis is here—and retaining your best employees is no longer optional.
In Targeting Turnover, Dick Finnegan draws on decades of experience and groundbreaking data to reveal a stark truth: the US is running out of workers. As baby boomers retire and birthrates fall, the only sustai...
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About the author
Richard "Dick" Finnegan is CEO of C-Suite Analytics and the Finnegan Institute. A specialist in cutting turnover, he works with a variety of clients, from Quest Diagnostics to Sysco to Covenant Health, that have reported reductions in turnover of a minimum of 20 percent—often much more—using his research-based model to improve employee engagement and supervisor connection. A lifelong member of SHRM, he is the highest rated SHRM speaker based on audience surveys and wrote the highest-selling SHRM title, The Stay Interview. He holds a master's degree in education from Penn State and resides near Orlando, Florida.
Richard "Dick" Finnegan is CEO of C-Suite Analytics and the Finnegan Institute. A specialist in cutting turnover, he works with a variety of clients, from Quest Diagnostics to Sysco to Covenant Health, that have reported reductions in turnover of a minimum of 20 percent—often much more—using his ...
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