How to conduct a ‘stay’ interview with your employees, and why you should
These may not always deter someone from leaving, but they will likely improve managers’ understanding which should help them retain other valuable people.
Current concerns about the Great Resignation have no doubt increased managers’ fear of losing valuable employees in a tight talent market.
A powerful, yet underutilized tool to avoid finding yourself in this situation is to conduct a “stay” interview. This is a brief, individual conversation with your employees aimed at knowing what makes them want to stay, and what may actually cause them to leave.
Think about it as the reverse of the exit interview, in which the goal is to construct a post-mortem explanation of why someone left, and what you could have done to avoid it.
