Why Leading Organisations Measure and Manage Employee Attachment: The Critical Formation Stage of Emotional Bonds

Join Selina Sork and Anthony Sork for a powerful and thought-provoking session exploring one of the most overlooked but commercially critical drivers of workforce performance: Employee Attachment, the formation of the emotional bond that ultimately determines retention, discretionary effort, and performance.

About the Session

In today’s environment, organisations invest heavily in attraction, onboarding, and engagement, yet many still struggle with early attrition, inconsistent performance, and disengaged talent.

This session reframes the conversation

Selina and Anthony will take you inside the employee lifecycle, revealing why the first 120 days represent a critical attachment window where the emotional bond between employee and organisation is formed, strengthened, or weakened.

You will explore

• The 4 Core Perceptions of Attachment
  (Security & Safety, Trust & Value, Social Acceptance, Belonging & Commitment)
• The 20 Drivers of Workplace Attachment - what truly shapes how employees feel, connect, and commit
• Why Attachment becomes the resting baseline of Engagement - and how engagement scores are simply the outcome of what has already formed
• How to calculate New Talent ROI – and the hidden cost of weak Attachment in the first year
• Why organisations must move beyond retrospective metrics and adopt attachment and connection as lead indicators and intervention tools
• The critical distinction between:
• Enterprise-level insights (what is happening), and
• Individual-level intervention (where real change occurs)

What Makes This Different

Most organisations measure engagement once a year. Only leading organisations understand, measure and manage:

• When and how the emotional bond forms
• What strengthens or weakens emotional bonds in real time
• How to intervene before detachment/disengagement and resignation occurs

This session will demonstrate why measuring and managing Attachment and Connection at the individual level is essential for:

• Retention risk mitigation
• Performance acceleration
• Setting the resting level of engagement
• Building cultures of excellence

What You’ll Gain

This is not theoretical. The session is designed to be:

• Insightful – grounded in behavioural science and real organisational data
• Valuable – directly linked to commercial outcomes and talent ROI
• Practical – with clear frameworks you can apply immediately

Attendees will also have the opportunity to reflect on

• How to evolve your recruitment and onboarding approach
• What you should expect from recruitment partners, internal talent acquisition teams and HRBP's 
• How to create stronger, faster, and more sustainable employee bonds from day one

Who Should Attend

CEOs & Executive Leaders | CHROs & People & Culture Leaders | Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Leaders | Business Leaders accountable for performance and retention

Join Us

If you are serious about improving retention, unlocking discretionary effort, and driving performance through stronger human connection this session will challenge your thinking and give you a new lens on workforce strategy.

Our Insight Sessions are an informal event held to provide insights from a specially chosen panel on topics relevant to our clients or candidates. We provide the brains trust, lunch and drinks, and you grace us with your presence and hopefully come away with a much deeper understanding of the chosen topic. All part of the service when you work with us.

There will be time to have something to eat and drink and catch up with our team, listen to our speakers & ask questions, and a chance to chat to them afterwards depending on how long the discussion goes for.

Seats are strictly limited to 90, so please, if you book and need to cancel closer to the time, let us know as soon as you can so we can allocate your ticket to another person eager to learn from our speakers.