The order of a board briefing pack
Cover note, figure list, establishment, leavers by tenure, replacement cost, scenarios, then the company-wide rate in an appendix. The chair’s three likely questions sit on page two.
Journal
Notes written after the meeting, not before
These pieces come from live workforce planning and attrition studies. They are not a newsletter about office life.
Establishment and headcount are not the same argument
HR defends posts; finance defends costed lines. An establishment audit is the unglamorous work of putting both lists on one page before the budget round.
What to bring to a first scoping call
Four things that save a week: the committee date, the sites in play, who owns the extract, and a list of column headings with no personal rows attached.
A single turnover rate is not a leaver map
Why a company-wide percentage hides first-year nights, March exits after overtime, and the handful of people who make a site look “volatile.”
Winter cover in care and retail is a calendar problem
Seasonal leaving is not a mystery culture failure. It is a predictable bunching of exits and sickness around Christmas trading and January rotas — if you chart the months.