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Description
Most organizations find out a frontline supervisor is struggling the same way they find out an employee is leaving — too late.
G.N. Janes, CEO of Valley Community Services, spent the last decade trying to change that. What started as a wild guess about where the real problem lived — the frontline supervisor level — became a full data infrastructure with weighted dashboards, engagement surveys, and predictive analytics built to catch problems before they become crises.
In Part 1 of this conversation, G.N. breaks down exactly how the system works: what they track, why scheduling and onboarding turned out to be the two biggest hidden drivers of turnover, and what any organization can do tomorrow with just a spreadsheet and tenure data.
If your organization is still managing turnover reactively, this episode is your playbook for what comes next.
🔗 Learn more about Valley Community Services: valleycommunityservices.org
⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 – When promoting your best DSP backfires
01:06 – What if you could predict your staffing future?
02:22 – The early warning system for frontline supervisors
04:20 – From Navy translator to IDD CEO
07:29 – Why frontline supervisors became the focus
08:56 – Inside the FLS dashboard: what they actually measure
11:38 – The two biggest hidden drivers of DSP turnover
16:33 – Did it actually work? Real results before COVID
18:47 – The Gallup engagement survey (and why follow-through is everything)
24:53 – The 2.5-year disengagement dip nobody talks about
29:16 – The one metric every org should baseline tomorrow
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