The Framework

The LHRP Framework

Leadership shapes hiring.

Hiring shapes retention.

Retention shapes performance.

The problem

Companies treat leadership, hiring, retention and performance as separate functions.

Different teams, different budgets, different strategies. But they are all part of the same system. When you treat them separately, you optimize in isolation and wonder why nothing improves. The problem is not the parts. The problem is the disconnection between them.

The core idea

Companies are behavioral systems.

Leadership defines the behavior. Everything else follows. When you understand this, you stop treating symptoms and start redesigning the system itself.

The scale of the problem

113 billion euros are lost annually in Germany due to disengagement.

Low engagement directly impacts productivity and performance.

Gallup

Only 27% of managers worldwide are engaged themselves.

Disengaged leaders cannot create engaged teams.

Gallup

80% of employees who receive meaningful feedback are fully engaged.

Performance is closely tied to leadership behavior.

PerformYard research summary

The four layers

Four connected layers. One behavioral system.

01

Leadership

Defines decisions, priorities and behavior. Leadership is the origin point of every organizational system. The way leaders think, decide, and communicate sets the behavioral blueprint for the entire company.

02

Hiring

Determines which behavior enters the system. Every hire is a behavioral decision. When hiring is aligned with leadership behavior, you attract people who reinforce the right patterns.

03

Retention

Shows which behavior stays or leaves. Retention is a mirror. It reflects whether your behavioral system is consistent. People stay when the system makes sense. They leave when it doesn't.

04

Performance

The result of the system. Performance is not an isolated metric. It is the direct output of leadership behavior, hiring quality, and retention patterns working together.

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A concise introduction to the LHRP Framework and how leadership, hiring, retention and performance form one behavioral system.

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The behavioral chain

Each layer feeds the next.

Leadership
Hiring
Retention
Performance

Leadership behavior flows through hiring, shapes retention, and determines performance. Change the leadership layer and you change the entire system.

“Through the collaboration and the methods applied, our performance became significantly more stable. We react less to symptoms now and operate with a system that consistently produces better results.”
— CEO, 95 employees

Start with a system diagnostic.

Understand how your behavioral system works today, and what needs to change.

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