As the pool of talented employees shrinks, businesses aren’t waiting to hold exit interviews. They want to know now how they can keep a great employee. A new trend is the “stay” interview, which can discover the aspects of their work that people like and which ones make them, if only for a minute, want to leave.
Beverly Kaye, author of Help Them Grow or Watch them Go, recommends these questions:
* What about your job makes you want jump out of bed in the morning?
* What are you passionate about?
* If you changed your role completely, what would you miss the most?
* If you won the lottery and didn’t have to work, what would you miss?
* What makes for a great day at work?
* If you had a magic wand, what would be the one thing you would you change about your work and your responsibilities?
* What bothers you about your job?
John Sullivan, professor of management at San Francisco State University, says the informal one-on-one meetings help management reinforce positive elements in that person’s job and deal with bothersome issues.
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