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Welcome to Mindful Management, a podcast where we share skills, stories, and resources about organization wellness to help you foster a healthy and successful workplace culture. With your host Shenandoah Chefalo, we speak with thought leaders in the field about how they have made staff well-being a core component of their business strategies.
The Retention Trap: How Investing in People Builds Resilient Companies with Mark Peters
Mindful Management
39 minutes
3 months ago
The Retention Trap: How Investing in People Builds Resilient Companies with Mark Peters
Employee retention may keep people in their seats, but it doesn’t guarantee they’ll thrive or that your company will.In this episode of Mindful Management, host Shenandoah Chefalo sits down with Mark Peters, CEO of Butterball Farms and author of The Retention Trap, to challenge traditional thinking around retention and explore the deeper value of intentional talent investment.What You’ll Learn:
Why retention as a metric can lead to ineffective problem-solving
How to shift from employee stabilization to aspiration-driven investment
The importance of leaders acting as “first movers” in culture change
Why responsibility equals power and how that changes systems
How investing in human capital creates resilience for companies and communities
Practical ways to partner with community resources for employee development
Mark Peter’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markpetersbutterball
Mark Peter’s website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/butterball-farms-inc-/
The Retention Trap book site: https://www.theretentiontrap.com/
‘The Source’ by Mark Peters: https://www.amazon.com/SOURCE-Mark-Peters/dp/1735895016/
Get in touch with Shen: https://www.chefaloconsulting.com/contact
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Mark Peters is the CEO of Butterball Farms, Inc., recognized nationally as one of The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® from 2018 to 2024. In 2003, he brought together a pioneering group of West Michigan CEOs and community leaders to create The SOURCE, a nonprofit that has helped hundreds of workers overcome challenges interfering with their jobs, delivering an average annual ROI of 200% to its partner organizations. An engaging speaker and storyteller, Mark has addressed TEDx and other audiences, sharing his vision for workplace cultures that invest in people. His new book, The Retention Trap: Stop Measuring Turnover, Start Measuring Talent Investment (Post Hill Press, June 3, 2025), builds on the foundation of his first book, The Source, offering a bold roadmap for shifting from retention metrics to meaningful talent development.
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Welcome to Mindful Management, a podcast where we share skills, stories, and resources about organization wellness to help you foster a healthy and successful workplace culture. With your host Shenandoah Chefalo, we speak with thought leaders in the field about how they have made staff well-being a core component of their business strategies.
