FOR LEADERS WHO BUILD TEAMS WORTH KEEPING

The leaders who keep their best people know what those people actually produce.

A team where every person connects their outputs to your organization's actual results doesn't need a mandate to hold itself accountable. The My Value App gives every person that system—and makes the connection visible to everyone who needs to see it.

WHAT EVERY HONEST MANAGER KNOWS

You are not uninvested in your people. You are managing too many things at once.

When an employee check-in arrives, you don’t start from nothing. You pull up a list of goals, or a set of expectations, and work from there. But the goals went stale three months after they were set. The expectations never had a clear measurement attached. And neither you nor your employee has been continually capturing the data and stories that would differentiate one person’s contributions from another’s, to clearly justify a raise, a bonus, or even a simple recognition.

What you end up with is a contest between two incomplete pictures: yours and theirs. Your employee arrives with a felt sense of the value they've been delivering—real, but largely unverified. You arrive with a perception shaped by your interactions with them: how often you see them, how confidently they speak, how well they articulate what they've accomplished. Perception isn’t necessarily reality. So personality fills the gap that evidence hasn't.

What about that quiet but effective employee doing the essential work? You assume they’re satisfied—until the day they tell you they’re leaving, and in that conversation you learn more about what they were producing than you did in three years of quarterly check-ins.

Man working on his computer in his office.

WHAT YOU DISCOVER WHEN SOMEONE LEAVES

An empty desk. An empty white board. An empty chair.

When a good person leaves, you write a job description to replace them.

And you notice something: You’re not sure what to put in it.

You know they were reliable. Organized. Good with people. You know the team ran more smoothly when they were in it. What you can’t describe—because it was never measured—is what they actually produced: The Relevant Business Results their work touched. The Value-Added Outputs they delivered week after week that kept something from quietly breaking.

The recruiter asks: “What does success look like in this role?” You say something general, something like a task list. You hope the next person figures it out.

Four months later you fill the seat. You still can’t name what value you lost. So how will you know when you’ve replaced it?

“You discover the value of what someone produced the moment you try to describe the role to someone who could replace them.”

— Kent Nuttall, Founder & CEO, Torch Solutions Group

WHAT CHANGES WHEN YOUR TEAM USES THE MY VALUE APP

The My Value App gives every person on your team a structured system to identify what they produce, connect it to the results your organization measures, and build a verifiable record that belongs to them.

In the app, each team member identifies their Relevant Business Results—the bottom-line metrics their work actually influences—and tracks their Value-Added Outputs against those results over time. Not self-reported impressions. Tracked, structured evidence that both of you can point to in any performance conversation.

The app—built on the Meaningful Competence® Toolkit—goes beyond measurement. A built-in Individual Mesh assessment shows each person where their contribution fits and where it butts up against the organization’s needs, their manager, and their peers. That assessment produces a specific development target, not a generic performance goal.

The Competence Levers tool works four levers—Clarity, Motivation, Skills, and Resources—to build a plan the employee can see, cares about, and is equipped to finish. Address all four, and development is no longer a question of willpower. It becomes the most likely outcome.

Your role is to equip your team with the app. What they build is visible to you and portable for them. Development conversations become specific. Promotions become defensible. And when someone decides to move on, neither of you is guessing about what they produced. And there's a deeper benefit: the connection each person builds isn't to the person next to them—it's to the organization's mission.

When every person on your team can show how their work maps to what this organization actually measures, you have something most leaders never get: alignment you can see, not just feel.

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THREE STEPS TO A TEAM THAT CAN PROVE ITS VALUE

The method works because it is built on specificity, not inspiration. Here is what it looks like in practice.

Refer Your Team to the My Value App

Share the link with the people you want to develop

Send your team members to the My Value App through this page. Each person subscribes individually. The first 30 days are free, then $14.95 per month. No IT setup. No procurement process. They can start today.

They Build Their Record

From first login to verifiable career portfolio

Each team member works through the Meaningful Competence® Toolkit at their own pace—identifying their Relevant Business Results, tracking their Value-Added Outputs, and building a portfolio of verifiable evidence. The system guides them. The record builds continuously. You see what's happening long before the next performance conversation—which is exactly the management advantage most leaders don't have.

Add Coaching or Training

Optional — available through this link

If you want to accelerate the process, or build the methodology into your team’s regular rhythm, Torch Solutions Group offers individual coaching and group training. Both are available through this link. The first conversation is free.

LEAD WITH EVIDENCE

Get Your Team Started with the My Value App.

Refer your team, add coaching or training if you want to go further, and give every person on your team the system that makes their contribution visible—to them, and to you.

Individual subscriptions are free for the first 30 days, then $14.95 per month. Cancel easily. Coaching and team training are priced separately — the first conversation is free and there is no commitment required.