Poor Employee Engagement - - that IS your problem.

Poor Employee Engagement

- that IS your problem.

Employee lifecycle management · by Tony Griffith

Hire, Train, Motivate, Maintain, Develop, Promote. In that order.

HTM2DP is a six-stage method for managing people from the first interview to the first promotion, so the people you hire stay, perform and grow into the people you need.

Who it is for: newly promoted managers, small-business owners, team leads and HR professionals who need a practical system, not theory.

Who made it: Tony Griffith, a US Army Non-Commissioned Officer who has managed teams since 1992 and refined HTM2DP over 25 years in government, military, aviation, IT, customer service, retail, FinTech, insurance and more, from storefronts to the Fortune 500. More about HTM2DP

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  1. HHireHire for cultural fit and adaptability, not just the résumé.
  2. TTrainOngoing training led by managers: skills, soft skills and culture.
  3. MMotivatePurpose, autonomy and earned recognition, with leaders as the example.
  4. MMaintainCheck-ins, feedback loops and well-being, so people do not burn out.
  5. DDevelopLateral and upward growth, mentoring and new skills.
  6. PPromotePromote from within on proven contribution, not tenure.

Proven in real businesses: Sargent’s Maytag in Reno–Sparks, Nevada more than quadrupled its annual sales with HTM2DP techniques and coaching, and Green Thumb Lawn Care in Dallas kept staff turnover at 16.7% against an industry average of 50%. See the results ↓

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What you get

The method is free to read. The toolkit is how you learn to use it: practise on simulated people, hire with a score, listen on the move, and keep the formula in front of you.

Management Simulation Trainer screen: a team roster, the six HTM2DP stages and management actions with an impact preview

Management Simulation Trainer

Software that runs your decisions through the six stages. Skip Maintain and you see energy drop and burnout set in within minutes, not months.

How the simulator works
Cultural Fit Score tool, step 1 of 4: define the core elements of your culture

Cultural Fit Score™ tool

Four steps for the Hire stage: define your culture, interview with targeted questions and practical tests, score each candidate, compare the results.

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HTM2DP The Management Formula audio book

Audio book (MP3)

Full English narration of the methodology guide, 2025 Edition, with real-world implementation advice that is not on the website. Listen to the first two minutes:

Or hear the free podcast
Preview of the HTM2DP Management Formula job aid: what to do at the Hire and Train stages

Printable job aids and wall poster

High-resolution, ready to print: each stage, the why behind it, and how to build and score your own Cultural Fit Score.

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The Downloads You Need To Succeed!

The HTM2DP Management Simulation Trainer (MST) software.
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Management SIMULATION Trainer (MST) software + High Resolution, Printable, Digital Downloads PLUS Audio Book (MP3), that explains the HTM2DP Management Formula across 5 placards PLUS an additional wall poster.
The HTM2DP Management Simulation Trainer / Assessment Tool:
  • TRAIN yourself on the HTM2DP methodology, 2025 Edition.
  • LEARN how to become a PROFIT MACHINE for your organization.
  • FILTER through unqualified management candidates who cannot manage real-life scenarios and only possess theoretical knowledge, not the practical experience your company needs.


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HTM2DP The Management Formula - AUDIO BOOK
  • Full ENGLISH narration of the methodology guide, 2025 Edition.
  • Explains in great detail each stage of the process in easy to understand terms.
  • Includes EXTRA and valuable information about real-world implementation not available for free on the website.
Methodology Audio Book


Printable JOB AID set, plus Wall Poster - includes information not available for free on the website.

  • Illustrates the HTM2DP employee lifecycle management formula.
  • Explains each stage of the process in easy to understand terms.
  • Provides a quick reference to people managers who need to focus on what is important.
  • Explains the "why" behind each stage in the process.
  • Explains how to develop a custom Cultural Fit Score™ (CFS) for use during the hiring stage, with the online CFS tool at cfs.iradek.com.
  • Explains the CFS scoring system and how to use it to help determine candidate viability.

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Employee Management Poster


Most management training teaches the job in pieces. HTM2DP gives you the whole employee lifecycle as one sequence, refined since 1992 in organizations from storefronts to the Fortune 500, plus the tools to practise it before you use it on real people. Level up, adapt and win with HTM2DP!

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Reviews

Insights into the effectiveness of the management formula in the real world.

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Simplistic enough points that I never thought were part of being a good manager because I wasn't thinking on this level, I pretty much thought some of this was senior HR and didn't concern me, then I became senior HR and then oh boy did I need this! Look, bottom line if you just got promoted this documentation gives you way more than a starting foundation as to what you need to know, to develop as a REAL people manager. - January 13, 2025.

Becca Allen (PHR)

Avon Inc.

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Printed the qref for my management class. I have no desire to become a manager as I see a lot of issues that make me not want to deal with it, but this was insightful. Will be very helpful in the future when I'm running my own thing. Worth the price. Frame them and hang them like I did. Read and read and read the >> "ManageFesto" <<, get it into your head and live that life if you can, you will get what you need. I have been on thee path for 8 years and I am winning, anyone can but you have to commit because really walking the walk is not easy. Almost all humans can talk, so as a commodity item its pretty low value. This teaches you that you have to be the leader not just some talker holding a title. Good read. - September 1, 2024.

Alex Lang

HR Professional

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As a seasoned manager, I found that the printables and the poster were indeed accurate and beneficial to the average person. They potentially can be even more useful for existing managers, as they provides enough valuable information to help remove many bad habits that hinder effectiveness. Using HTM2DP can be a great asset to any business, since using it is much more effective and more efficient. How not to waste my time and energy is what I learned and that has helped me be a more positive leader. - September 4, 2024.

Maria Gonzales-Perry

Project Manager

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Purely focused. This is legit like SCRUM Guide but for managers. This is one of those things that you knew parts of but you didn't put the pieces together correctly and this simple printable aid laser focuses on the reality. - June 19, 2023.

A. Jonas (CISM, CISA)

Manager

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Great insight and refresher to anyone in management or HR. Timeless for anyone who desires to become successful in their management mission or who needs to understand the reasoning behind the how part. Kudos to the authors in making this available. - April 4, 2023.

Janet Q.

General Manager

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026

The problem is management

Global employee engagement fell for the second year in a row, and Gallup finds the decline is driven largely by managers.

“Businesses are investing heavily in AI, but the results are not showing up in the bottom line. Gallup’s data points to an answer the corporate world has largely ignored: the manager.” – Jon Clifton, CEO, Gallup

Lost productivity

$10T

Estimated yearly cost of low engagement worldwide, about 9% of global GDP.

Engaged employees

20%

Share of employees worldwide who were engaged at work in 2025, down from 23% in 2022.

Manager engagement

22%

Managers' own engagement in 2025, down from 27% a year earlier.

The manager effect

70%

Share of the variance in team engagement that Gallup attributes to the manager.

Sources: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace (2026 report, published April 2026); the 70% figure is from Gallup’s State of the American Manager research.

Podcast microphone, headphones and a printed report on a studio desk
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HTM2DP vs. the State of the Global Workforce

Two podcast hosts take on Gallup’s 2024 report on the global state of the workplace, dig into the HTM2DP literature and discuss how the HTM2DP framework could turn those numbers around. A free listen before you buy.

Originally recorded December 5, 2024

Results

Proven in real businesses

HTM2DP has been put to work by real owners and managers. Two of them, in their own industries:

Retail · Reno–Sparks, Nevada

Sargent’s Maytag

A family-owned appliance business serving Reno and Sparks since 1974. With HTM2DP techniques and coaching from its author, its annual sales more than quadrupled.

Annual sales, indexed (before HTM2DP = 1×)

Before HTM2DP1×

With HTM2DPmore than 4×

Shown as a ratio to keep the company’s figures private.

Visit Sargent’s Kitchen Appliance Center

Lawn care · Dallas, Texas · 2001–2020

Green Thumb Lawn Care

Mario Alvarez learned the formula from its author on a job in 1998 and built his family lawn-care company on it from 2001: a crew of six, English and Spanish speaking, in an industry where people come and go. The business has since retired; these are its numbers against the industry average.

16.7%

Staff turnover, against 50% for the industry.

+23%

Productivity: from 13 to 16 jobs a week.

Illustration: a lawn-care owner briefing his crew of six beside a pickup truck and mower trailer at sunrise
AI illustration of a crew like Green Thumb’s, made with this site’s picture tool. Not a photograph of the real team.

Green Thumb vs. industry average

Green Thumb Industry average

Employee satisfaction92% vs 30%

Client retention80% vs 50%

Staff turnover (lower is better)16.7% vs 50%

Net Promoter Score72 vs 50

80%

Of new clients came from referrals.

72

Net Promoter Score, against 50 for the industry.

Green Thumb yearly revenue

$41,000
$98,000
$594,000
2001 (year 1)2003 (year 3)2020

2020: $594,000, on track for more than $800,000 before the pandemic.

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Why HTM2DP?

The facts: Gallup examined data from 122,416 workers in 2023 and more than 250,000 in 2025 and found that “poor management leads to lost customers and lost profits; it also leads to miserable lives.” It estimates that low engagement costs the global economy about $10 trillion a year. Research from MIT suggests that, so far, artificial intelligence has not reversed this trend.

So if it is not the technology, and not the level of investment, what is the problem? Gallup’s answer is the manager. HTM2DP is a method for exactly that.

People, not “resources”. HTM2DP treats employees as people. It builds development, performance and profit into the employee lifecycle, so you can raise engagement, reduce turnover and earn real loyalty while improving the work experience for everyone involved.

Built from practice, not theory. HTM2DP comes from patterns documented across thousands of real employee relationships, refined over 25 years in government and private-sector organizations from small businesses to the Fortune 500. Because you measure, collect and act on your own data, you can see the improvements in performance, satisfaction and retention for yourself.

Works with what you already use. HTM2DP sits alongside Agile and Lean and can be tailored to an organization of any size.

Sources: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace · MIT NANDA, State of AI in Business 2025 · MIT CSAIL research

How HTM2DP differs from 50 best-selling management books

These classics shaped modern management. Read how HTM2DP differs from the broader business concepts they teach.

  1. 50. On Becoming a Leader By Warren G. Bennis (Basic Books, 1989)
  2. 49. Financial Intelligence By Karen Berman and Joe Knight (Harvard Business Review Press, 2006)
  3. 48. Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive By Harvey B. Mackay (Harper Business, 2005)
  4. 47. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management By Roger Lowenstein (Random House Trade, 2001)
  5. 46. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by being Remarkable By Seth Godin (Portfolio Hardcover, 2003)
  6. 45. Growing a Business By Paul Hawken (Simon and Shuster, 1988)
  7. 44. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies By Michael Watkins (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013)
  8. 43. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity By David Allen (Penguin Books, 2002)
  9. 42. Leadership and Self Deception By Arbinger Institute (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002)
  10. 41. What Management Is By Joan Magretta (Free Press, 2002)
  11. 40. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It By Michael E. Gerber (Harper Business, 1995)
  12. 39. My Years with General Motors By Alfred Sloan Jr. (Crown Business, 1963)
  13. 38. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise By Alfred D. Chandler (MIT Press, 1962)
  14. 37. The Principles of Scientific Management By Frederick Winslow Taylor (Cosimo Classics, first printing 1911)
  15. 36. The Functions of the Executive By Chester I. Barnard (Harvard University Press, 1971)
  16. 35. Blue Ocean Strategy By W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (Harvard Business Press, 2005)
  17. 34. Focal Point By Brian Tracy (American Management Association, 2004)
  18. 33. The One Minute Manager By Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (William Morrow, 1981)
  19. 32. The Art of Strategy By R. L. Wing (W.W. Norton and Company, 1991)
  20. 31. Jack: Straight from the Gut By Jack Welch (Warner Books, 2005)
  21. 30. The Essays of Warren Buffett By Warren Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham (Cardozo Law Review, 2001)
  22. 29. Business Model Generation By Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur (self published in 2009)
  23. 28. Competition Demystified By Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn (Penguin Publishing Group, 2007)
  24. 27. The Innovator's Dilemma By Clayton M. Christensen (Harper Paperbacks, 2003)
  25. 26. Turn The Ship Around By L. David Marquet (Portfolio, 2013)
  26. 25. The Effective Executive By Peter Drucker (Harper Business, 2006)
  27. 24. Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management (Revised and Updated) By Edward De Bono (Back Bay Books, 1999)
  28. 23. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team By Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass, 2002)
  29. 22. The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action By Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
  30. 21. Now, Discover Your Strengths By Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton (Free Press, 2001)
  31. 20. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (Simon and Shuster, 1999)
  32. 19. The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company (Revised, 20th Anniversary) By Jack Stack (Crown Business, 2013)
  33. 18. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Revised, 30th Anniversary) By Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox (North River Press, 2012)
  34. 17. The Circle of Innovation By Tom Peters (Vintage 1999; first published 1997)
  35. 16. Toyota Production System By Taiichi Ohno (Productivity Press, 1988)
  36. 15. Out of the Crisis By W. Edwards Deming (MIT-CAES, 1982)
  37. 14. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don't By James C. Collins (Harper Collins, 2001)
  38. 13. Competing for the Future By Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (Harvard Business School Press, 1994)
  39. 12. The Essential Drucker By Peter F. Drucker (Harper Business, 2001)
  40. 11. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail By Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
  41. 10. The Six Sigma Way By Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh (McGraw Hill, 2000)
  42. 9. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change By Stephen R. Covey (Simon and Shuster, 1990)
  43. 8. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers By Geoffrey A. Moore, Regis McKenna (Harper Business, 1999)
  44. 7. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance By Michael E. Porter (Free Press, 1998)
  45. 6. Re-engineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution By Michael Hammer, James A. Champy (Harper Collins, 1993)
  46. 5. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies By James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras (Harper Collins, 1994)
  47. 4. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies By Thomas Peters and Robert H. Waterman (Harper Collins, 1982)
  48. 3. Strength Finder 2.0 By Tom Rath (Gallup Press, 2007)
  49. 2. Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices By Peter Drucker (Harper Business, 1993; first published in 1985)
  50. 1. How to Win Friends and Influence People By Dale Carnegie (originally published in 1936. Current edition paperback, Pocket Books)
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An immense help for me despite already having been a manager for several years. With the help of this info I am now able to concentrate on what I need to do in every case to manage an effective team as opposed to the once disorganized one that I kept having to back-fill. I strongly recommend this job aid. - December 12, 2022.

Stephan Preliss

Entrepreneur

The new Management Simulation Trainer is actually worth the price all by itself. You can read the methodology for free but you can learn the methodology with real lessons on how to develop your intent. You see all those other things like SAP and Workday, those just record what happened afterward, this simulator actually helps you to determine what to "do" based on the formula. This helps me to sharpen my intent. - January 1, 2026.

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