Get Your Free Key Employee Retention Plan
It's hard enough to find good people. Keeping them is even more vital.
Get your free Key Employee Retention Plan — driven by real strategists, real discussion, and real understanding of your business. All for free.
All it takes is a 30 minute discussion. Fill out the form and we'll reach out to schedule your discovery call!
$50K+
Cost to replace a single skilled trade worker
2.7
Immediate action items found (on average)
30 Minutes
is all you need to commit
WHAT WE EVALUATE
A full picture of why people stay — or leave.
We don't just look at pay. We dig into everything that drives retention in trades businesses, then build your plan around what we find.
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Benefits Package
How do your health, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits stack up against others in your market? If competitors are offering more, your people already know it.
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Compensation Structure
It's not always about paying more. We look at how your total comp — base, overtime, bonuses, profit sharing, ownership opportunities — compares to your market.
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Culture & Work Environment
People don't quit companies. They quit bosses, bad culture, and feeling undervalued. We assess the intangibles that show up in your turnover rate.
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Key Person Identification
Who are the 3–5 people your company literally can't function without? We identify them and build specific retention strategies for each one.
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Career Path & Growth
Do your best people see a future here, or are they just waiting for a better offer? We evaluate whether your growth path is clear or invisible.
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Succession & Contingency
If your lead superintendent gets hit by a bus tomorrow, what happens? We build a contingency framework so no single departure breaks the business.
Get Your Free Key Employee Retention Plan
Let's start with an open discussion about how you keep your best team members for the long-term.
Answer a few questions and you'll receive:
- AI-driven analysis of your current retention strategy
- Actionable next steps on how to plan around your key people and strategies to keep them in-house
- Contingency planning initiatives and how to prepare in case someone does leave
- A detailed look at your benefits plan, from executive benefits to health insurance and beyond
- A dedicated risk strategist to break down the results
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
A Look at Your Free Employee Retention Plan
We'll start with a 30-minute discovery call and take you through a few assessments. From there, you decide how to execute on the plan.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps. No runaround.
Schedule Your Call
Fill out the form and we'll reach out to find a time that works best for you or your team, then we'll pair you with one of our dedicated strategists.
Assessment Call
In a 30-minute call, we dig into your benefits, key people, culture, compensation, succession gaps and more so we can best assess your situation.
Get Your Plan
You get a written retention plan with specific recommendations, key person strategies, and a benefits comparison. Actionable from day one.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
Your key people get a dedicated plan.
Every business has a handful of people who hold everything together. We identify who they are and give you a specific, actionable plan to retain each one.
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Individual retention risk assessment for each key person
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Custom compensation & benefits recommendations
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Succession plan if they leave despite your best efforts
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Non-compete and retention agreement guidance
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Long-term incentive structures that actually work
If your best estimator gave two weeks' notice today – what's your plan?
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Who takes over their open bids?
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How long to find a replacement?
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How many client relationships walk out the door?
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What does it cost you in lost revenue?
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Could you have seen it coming?
WHY MOVE FORWARD?
Losing people is more expensive than you think.
When a key employee walks, it's not just a hiring problem. It's a revenue problem, a client problem and a culture problem — all at once.
200%
Cost to replace a key employee relative to their annual salary.
$4.7K
Average cost to hire one new employee – before training.
67%
of employees say benefits are a top factor in staying with a company.
FROM OWNERS LIKE YOU
Here's what our clients are saying.
"The combination of risk management knowledge by the team in our specific business, along with the plan they deliver are the main reasons we recommend Ellerbrock-Norris."
"I think the most impressive aspect is people at Ellerbrock-Norris have taken the time to understand our unique business model and the service delivery options we offer and how to integrate that into the plan. I know we wouldn't be where we are today without Ellerbrock, especially the people there."
IS THIS FOR YOU?
This plan is built for a specific kind of business.
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Construction, manufacturing, speciality trades
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15+ employees (W-2 or mixed workforce)
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$1.5M annual revenue
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You know risk exists – you just don't have time to fix them
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Leadership team or owner willing to make decisions
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Solo operators or very small crews (<15 people)
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Just looking for an insurance quote
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Not in trades, construction or manufacturing
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No interest in actually finding the root problems
Your best people have options.
Give them a reason to stay.
We run a limited number of these each month so every plan gets our full attention. Grab yours before the calendar fills up.