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Dave Basarab Consulting has elevated the training experience, offering an end-to-end comprehensive approach that includes training strategy, instructional design, development, delivery , post program training transfer, and evaluation (via the unique Predictive Evaluation methodology). Virtual Chief Architect Dave Basarab has combined all of these individual training elements with his user-friendly, comprehensive Learning to Performance approach, which significantly increases companies' training ROI.

Why we are different

Innovation: Our primary focus is creating learning programs using a Learning to Performance approach.
Expertise: Dave offers the depth and breadth of his experience, including working internally at prestigious companies (Motorola, Ingersoll Rand and Pitney Bowes) as well as his knowledge and expertise as a highly-respected, sought-after consultant.
Partnership: Basarab collaborates with companies, serving as their own Chief Learning Officer whenever they need to plan, strategize, or implement training initiatives.

Training Services

Enterprise Learning Strategy

Enterprise Learning Strategy

At Dave Basarab Consulting, we're experts in creating Enterprise Learning Plans. We work with you to develop your company's learning strategy and direction.

Custom Design, Development, & Delivery

Custom Design, Development, & Delivery

Custom training is an effective way of developing the capability required to execute your strategy. We are a custom design house that creates programs specific to your business.

Learning Burst Development

Learning Burst Development

We can create and deliver your courses via our unique Learning Burst Method - keeping your employees at their jobs while receiving world-class training.

Predictive Evaluation

Predictive Evaluation

We predict the ROI for your courses and establish success gates. We then evaluate the course against the success gates to show value realized and continually improve results.

Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Turn-key virtual custom leadership development program that combines world-class leadership speakers/educators with post-event personalized coaching to provide you with a cadre of highly skilled leaders.

Predictive Evaluation

Designing a Learning Strategy for High-Turnover Workplaces

Australia's hospitality venues on the Gold Coast, NDIS providers across Greater Sydney, and fly-in fly-out camps in the Pilbara share an uncomfortable common thread. Workers walk out the door far more often than the national average suggests they should, and each departure wipes out a slice of the capability that took months to build. In sectors where casual contracts and seasonal rosters dominate, learning is too easily treated as a discretionary cost rather than what it actually is: the fastest lever for holding onto people who can already do the job.

A strategy built for churn looks different from a calm, long-cycle curriculum. It assumes that induction might be the only sustained contact you get with a learner, that managers change as quickly as frontline teams, and that capability needs to be visible long before a typical twelve-month review. The shifts below walk through the practical moves a learning leader can make when retention is the constraint everything else has to work inside.

Element	Traditional Learning Approach	Turnover-Focused Approach
Planning horizon	Annual, calendar-driven	Aligned to employee lifecycle stages
Content format	Multi-hour workshops and long modules	Bite-sized bursts delivered on mobile
Manager involvement	Periodic check-ins	Weekly capability conversations
Measurement focus	Completion rates and satisfaction scores	Adoption, application and intent-to-stay indicators
Investment priority	Senior leadership programs	Onboarding and first-90-days experience

The Hidden Cost of Turnover in Australian Workforces

Turnover rates in Australian frontline industries routinely outpace the national average, and the replacement bill goes well beyond recruitment fees. In a Townsville contact hub or a Brisbane distribution centre, every operator lost can mean a quarter of the shift experience walking out of the building. Once you add lost productivity, agency cover, and the supervisor hours spent re-briefing, the real figure can run into tens of thousands per role.

There is also a subtler cost that rarely shows up in a workforce plan. Institutional knowledge about customers, compliance nuances, and local procedures evaporates when a worker hands in their resignation. A learning function that treats documentation as an afterthought effectively forces the next hire to learn the same lessons the hard way. Building structured capture points into everyday work is the cheapest insurance policy a high-turnover business can buy.

Mapping Capability Gaps to the Employee Lifecycle

A lifecycle lens is more useful than a course catalogue when staff are not staying long enough to finish a multi-year pathway. Each phase of employment — attraction, induction, early tenure, steady state, transition — carries its own capability risks and its own opportunity to influence intent to stay. New starters in their first ninety days are looking for signals that the business is competent and that they made a sensible choice.

Mid-tenure employees are often the most expensive to lose because they carry relationships with clients and the muscle memory of internal systems. Targeted refreshers, stretch assignments, and cross-training into adjacent roles give these workers a reason to keep showing up. For staff nearing the end of a contract or considering a move, handover toolkits and structured exit conversations turn a resignation into a useful input for the next hire.

Modular Content for Shift-Based and Casual Teams

Long workshops do not survive a roster built around split shifts, weekends, and last-minute swaps. The content itself has to be cut into pieces that fit between deliveries or in the back of a depot. Mobile-first microlearning, short scenario clips, and printable job aids perform far better than two-hour modules in a warehouse or a café in peak service.

Equally important is the language. Australian learners respond to plain English, a bit of dry humour, and examples that look like the work they actually do. Treating learners as adults who can handle a quick reference card rather than a narrated animation tends to lift both completion and recall. The format choice is not really about pedagogy; it is about respecting how shift work actually runs.

Predictive Signals for Early Retention Risk

The biggest improvement a learning team can make in a high-turnover environment is to start measuring forward-looking signals rather than backwards-looking satisfaction scores. Completion of an induction module tells you almost nothing about whether the worker intends to stay through the next quarter. Behavioural indicators, manager notes, and pulse responses start to paint a more honest picture of where churn risk is building.

The Predictive Evaluation methodology is built around exactly this shift, turning training data into leading indicators rather than lagging ones. Intention dashboards make it visible which cohorts are drifting toward exit and where a small intervention might catch them before they walk. For a learning leader, that is the difference between a report and a tool.

Onboarding as the First Retention Lever

The first thirty days shape whether a worker treats the role as a stopgap or a foothold. Induction programs that treat onboarding as paperwork — forms, videos, compliance tick-boxes — rarely move the needle on retention. Programs that build social connection, clarify expectations, and give quick wins in the first week tend to hold people through the fragile early months.

Structured check-ins at day seven, day thirty, and day ninety give managers a chance to course-correct before disengagement hardens into resignation. The long-term payoff shows up in the kind of analysis captured in this piece on measuring onboarding impact on retention, where the strongest predictor of twelve-month retention is consistently the quality of the early experience rather than the salary on offer.

Leadership Development That Survives Constant Change

Layered onto all of this is a quieter challenge: the supervisors who run day-to-day operations are themselves a high-turnover population. Promoting a capable operator into a team lead role without structured support is one of the most reliable ways to lose both of them within twelve months. Leadership capability has to be treated as a core operating skill, not an optional extra reserved for head office.

That means short, repeatable manager programs anchored in real scenarios from the business, not leadership theory imported from overseas case studies. Practical conversation frameworks, feedback drills, and people-data fluency tend to outperform two-day offsites that nobody remembers. Recent industry coverage of Australian learning leaders points to the same conclusion: frontline leadership development is now the single most leveraged investment a high-turnover business can make.

The next practical step is to map your current learning spend against the employee lifecycle, then identify the single stage where capability loss hurts the most. Pick that stage, instrument it with a forward-looking measurement, and rebuild the experience around it before you touch anything else.

Learning to Performance

Learning to Performance, a complete training approach, gives companies world-class training to drive significant return. This approach includes upfront work (Impact Mapping, design), training (for staff and company executives), and post-training efforts to ensure training transfer. This unique recipe - the key for successful training and adoption - is changing the way companies implement training. This methodology could work with any content for organizations in any industry.