People Are Leaving, Fewer Are, Coming. And It Started With a Bad Hire
MyTalentPlanner helps companies that face high turnover in critical positions use talent planning, behavioral science, and AI to cut turnover to single digits, hire right and overcome the generational cliff.
80%
Employee turnover comes from a bad hire
39.9%
High turnover in key roles like manufacturing
(30-40% average across industries)
44%
Incoming workforce is smaller by 30M than retirees
Backed by Small Business Success
Trusted Business Operating System-Everything EOS Does, Plus a Full Talent Suite, Proven by Real SMB Results
SMB leaders who mastered the people side of the business to cut turnover, increase productivity and
achieve their goals.
Low Accountability/Productivity
Increase ActOn plan completion rate from 70 to 94%
People Issues/Communication
Decreased production team turnover on the shop floor from 40% to 8%
Stuck “In” The Business
Increased working on the business by 55%
Curious where your team stands today?
Three forces are quietly destroying SMBs’ ability to grow,
and they are already inside the business.
We surveyed and worked with thousands of Small to Medium Sized
Business Leaders-Here are the top business challenges they face.
As leaders, we often think turnover is driven by compensation or culture. But according to Harvard Business Review, a majority of turnover is caused by a bad hire. By the time you realize it, you’ve already absorbed the cost: lost productivity, recruiting fees, and the three to six months it takes the next person to get up to speed, which stalls growth.
(Source: Harvard Business Review)
Manufacturers annual turnover rate is 39.9% according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. But they’re not alone-contractors, field service teams and healthcare face similar turnover rates, especiallly in critical positions. When you’re running a business under 500 people, replacing even a handful of key roles every year slows growth, drains your margins, breaks your team’s momentum, and pulls your best managers away from the work that actually grows the business.
(Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
The generation entering the workforce right now is 44% smaller than the one leaving it. That means fewer candidates, harder searches, and longer gaps every time someone walks out the door. There are already 6.5 million open jobs in the US today, and that number grows every year as more experienced workers retire than new ones enter. For SMBs, manufacturers, and contractors etc. who depend on skilled people to operate, this isn’t a distant problem. The shortage is already here. The businesses building strong hiring and retention systems today will have the teams they need to grow. The ones waiting will be competing for people who have plenty of other options.
(Source: DemandSage)
Align your people and business goals
with a single, unified platform
Strategy without people is just a plan. People without strategy is chaos. MyTalentPlanner connects both-across every team,
every level. every week. Six pillars. One platform-everything moving in the same direction.
Provide strategic clarity to all employees and a bullseye to make all decisions
Empower your leaders/supervisors to invest in and care for their team members and build a high-performance team through a full suite of talent features
Enables leaders and teams to have honest, open and transparent (HOT) conversations to enhance communication, overcome generational differences, execute their talent plan and make the right talent decision the first time
Free leaders up to work “on” the business through automated workflows and proactive recommendations to improve team and company performance.
Make execution and accountability a strength of your business to accelerate growth and achieve your goals/vision.
Use metrics and dashboards to illustrate what is working and what to work on next.
MyTalentPlanner in Action
Most SMB leaders are replacing the same people, missing the same goals, and wondering why growth feels so hard.
MyTalentPlanner changes that-cut employee turnover to single digits, grow revenue, and build teams that perform.
>50%
Reduction in Employee Turnover
Retain the people you have, develop them faster, and build a workplace they don't want to leave before the talent shortage becomes a crisis.
>25%
Revenue Growth After Cutting Turnover
Fox Valley Metal Tech reduced shop floor turnover from 40% to 8% in 12 months, and the $300,000 in annual savings went straight back into growing the business.
94%
Average Action Plan Completion Rate
When your strategy connects directly to your people, goals stop getting set and forgotten, they get done.
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Connecting Strategy, Talent & Execution
MyTalentPlanner is the only SMB system with Strategy, Talent, Execution, Metrics, Behavioral Science and AI.
Most tools manage work.
MyTalentPlanner masters the people behind it.
Most platforms focus on meetings, strategy, or goals. MyTalentPlanner has all of that-strategic vision, goals, action plans, meetings, and metrics-everything EOS-based operating systems offer, and goes further: it is the only platform that adds a full suite of talent features, behavioral science, and AI to help you master the people side of your business to achieve your goals/vision.
Built for the toughest people challenges, including the shop floor
Manufacturers using MyTalentPlanner have reduced shop floor turnover from 30-40% to single digits in the first year. Strengthen supervisors, improve team performance, and boost delivery, efficiency, and quality-with one system built for manufacturers.
Thousands of SMB leaders have already cut turnover, fixed their hiring, and taken back their time. See what that looks like for your business.
It takes two minutes. No signup, no pitch-just a clear picture of
where your people strategy stands today.
Founder’s Note
Every business I have seen hit a revenue ceiling, hit it for the same reason-not from poor strategy, not the economy, but people challenges. I lived it myself, scaling a company from $5M to $30M in 5 years. The only way we were going to get there was by building a system to hire the right people, retain our team members, develop future leaders, and build a great culture and place to work.
That system became MyTalentPlanner Growth Accelerator System
It gives your managers the tools to hire with confidence, reduce high turnover to single digits, and have the right conversations that keep good people from walking out the door. It connects your people plan to your strategy, so goals don’t just get set, they get done. And it gives you back the time you have been losing to problems that the right system should have prevented.
If you are stuck in the people side of your business, this was built for exactly where you are right now.
Welcome to the MyTalentPlanner Community.
-Steve Van Remortel, Founder & CEO
Implementation Options
Select the implementation option that best fits your organization: receive guidance throughout the process from a trained Talent Planning Advisor in your area, implement it yourself with your team, or choose a solution somewhere in between.
Do It Yourself
Self onboard on your timetable with our Step by Step process.
Lead your team through this process with:
Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!
Explore our frequently asked questions to learn more about how our Growth
Accelerator System can help you.
MyTalentPlanner is an Operating and Talent System that helps SMB leaders, manufacturers and their advisors master the people-side of the business using behavioral science, AI and software to achieve their goals/vision.
MyTalentPlanner is the only SMB platform that has a full suite of talent features integrated with people-science to help you win at talent by making the right hire, retaining high performers and building high performance leaders and teams.
It unites your strategy, talent, and execution plans with people-science and AI automation all in one place.
It has everything the multiple EOS operating systems have like
MyTalentPlanner is the only SMB platform that has a full suite of talent features integrated with people-science to help you win at talent by having the right person in each seat on the bus.
What makes MyTalentPlanner different is it help SMBs, and Manufacturers overcome the #1 issue they face in scaling their business–which are people-related challenges.
We help small to medium sized businesses and manufacturers (<500 employees), and their advisors excel at the people-side of the business to execute their strategy and talent plans using people-science, AI and software to achieve their goals and vision
Absolutely! MyTalentPlanner is highly customizable to fit your organization’s unique structure, goals, and challenges. You can tailor the platform’s features to different departments, teams, or individual needs for maximum impact.
DISC helps all employees understand their natural communication styles-whether they tend to be more decisive, outgoing, steady, or analytical. Behavioral science enables honest, open and transparent (HOT) conversations in your 1:1 meetings that lead to breakthroughs in their work and life.
People-science equips your leaders to make the right hire, develop and retain their team leading to a high-performance organization.
Absolutely. Our approach is to teach you how to fish, not fish for you. We provide structured training right upfront on how to lead 1:1s, develop employees and have performance conversations using MyTalentPlanner-which automates the process. This ensures leaders feel confident and equipped to use the tools consistently going forward.
Yes, MyTalentPlanner connects individual goals with company objectives, ensuring alignment from top to bottom. By using ActOn plans and consistent plan execution reviews, everyone in your organization can contribute to achieving the company’s goals and vision.
Your data is always secure and kept confidential. You retain full ownership of your company’s data-we simply provide the platform to organize, update, analyze, and execute your strategy & talent plan to achieve your goals/vision.
Getting started is easy! Simply sign up for a free 30-day trial, and we’ll guide you through the setup process. You will be up and running on MyTalentPlanner in 48 hours and have immediate impact on the success of your organization. Our customer success team is ready to support you as needed.
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