The Gartner Supply Chain Podcast

Your Employees Will Leave; Embrace the Turnover

Nov 1, 2023

Explore how supply chain leaders can turn employee turnover into an opportunity, the importance of backfilling roles smoothly, improving employee productivity, and onboarding senior stakeholders for cultural change. With insights from Caroline Chumakov, uncover strategies for attracting and retaining top talent, creating diverse work environments, and developing supply chain centers of excellence.

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Viewing employee turnover as an opportunity leads to improved talent outcomes and easier talent movement within the organization.

Reducing work friction enhances employee productivity by addressing workload management and decision autonomy.

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Embracing Turnover as an Opportunity

In the podcast, Caroline highlights the importance of viewing employee turnover as an opportunity rather than a challenge for supply chain leadership. She emphasizes that embracing turnover can lead to improved talent outcomes, such as higher employee discretionary effort and easier talent movement within the organization. By shifting the perspective on turnover, organizations can experience less disruption when employees leave, ultimately reaping benefits from this approach.

Introduction

2min

Embracing Employee Turnover for Organizational Improvement

10min

Gamification-based Demand Forecasting and Improving Employee Productivity

5min

Transforming Workplace Culture through Embracing Turnover and Productivity Enhancement

3min

Concluding Reflections and Call to Action for Supply Chain Professionals

2min

This episode of the Supply Chain Podcast explores:

Why supply chain leaders need to start viewing employee turnover as an opportunity rather than a challenge. (1:11)
What do supply chain leaders need to do to start embracing turnover. (4:40)
The changes required for the process of backfilling a role after an employee leaves. (8:53)
How supply chain leaders can improve employee productivity. (12:43)
Tackling the challenge of onboarding other senior stakeholders for the cultural change of embracing employee turnover. (17:32)

Caroline Chumakov is a director analyst in Gartner’s Talent and Sustainability team. She covers supply chain talent strategies, change management, communications, culture and centers of excellence. Caroline assists in elevating the supply chain profession to attract and retain top talent and speaks to what talent strategies and specialty organizational structures may address the gaps in supply chain capabilities.

Caroline also advises clients on how to improve the diversity of their supply chain workforce and create inclusive work environments for all. She specializes in guiding clients through the development and deployment of supply chain centers of excellence. She discusses best practices for leading changes, whether focused on broad transformation or small-scale initiatives, and she advises on relationship-management communication strategies.

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The Gartner Supply Chain Podcast

Your Employees Will Leave; Embrace the Turnover

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Embracing Turnover as an Opportunity

Revisiting Exit Processes and Embracing Departure

Enhancing Employee Productivity Through Work Optimization

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts