It’s never easy to lose a high-performing employee. While the cost to replace that employee is considerable -- recent studies show upwards of 50% of a mid-level employee’s annual salary – voluntary turnover can also negatively impact employee morale, productivity, and bottom-line company performance. Just as the name suggests, stay interviews are intended to elicit information from top performers about factors that would drive them to remain with your organization. Through periodic one-on-one retention interviews between managers and highly valued “at-risk-of-leaving” employees, your organization can:
- Identify and minimize the “triggers” that might cause employees to consider leaving
- Help you understand why employees stay so that you can reinforce these factors
Key Benefits
Stay interviews have positive consequences for both the organization and the employee. Because they are personalized, they provide an ideal opportunity for identifying potential pitfalls—and also for exploring new opportunities to retain top employees. They tend to motivate and encourage employees by lowering negative emotions and focusing on positives. Stay interviews are inexpensive to conduct and often include direct actions.Stay Interview Questions
Stay interviews don’t need to be constrained to an exact script—many good ideas come from the natural flow of conversation between the interviewer and employee. Additionally, it’s good to have a list of questions prepared to ensure that you guide the conversation in the right direction. Some potential questions include:- What is it about your job that makes you want to jump out of bed each morning?
- What are you passionate about?
- What is your dream job?
- If you completely changed your role, what would you most miss?
- If you won the lottery and didn’t have to work, what would you miss?
- What did you love about your last position that you’re not doing now?
- Describe what makes a great day at work?
- If you had a magic wand, what would be the one thing you would change about your work, your role and your responsibilities?
- What do you think about on your way to work?
- What bothers you most about your job?
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