THE STAY INTERVIEW
In these tumultuous talent retention times, employees who stick are your company’s strategic advantage. After all, talented people who stay indicate you are doing something very right. With that, winning companies conduct “Stay Interviews” – where you ask current employees why they continue to work for you and how things can improve – to keep turnover at bay through trust building. Stay Interviews also offer a key plank in any smart talent retention strategy. Stay Interviews, done right, give you a detailed picture of how to focus more on the good things you are doing while shedding the things that cause people to leave. At a minimum, Stay Interviews should be done with high potential, critical employees and those who might present a flight risk. Having said that, don’t overlook your "steady Eddie's"— engaging average employees in these types of chats just might help transform them into high…read more...