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  tips for conducting stay interviews:👩‍🦰🧓👨

  Posted by Joel Martin on May 31, 2021 at 6:45 PM

  Here are a few tips for conducting stay interviews:

  👍Wait to interview new hires until they’ve had some time to get to know the job. But don’t wait too long—new hires are often more vulnerable to turnover because they have less invested in the organization. Consider conducting these interviews more than once in the first year of tenure with the organization,
  and annually thereafter.

  
  

  👂Let employees know in advance the intent behind these meetings. If they’re aware that you’re looking for their honest input, they’ll have the chance to give thoughtful answers and insights.

  
  

  👆Keep the discussion completely separate from performance reviews or other types of meetings. (This is about the employee’s needs, not about the employee’s performance.)
  Use the opportunity to express how much you value the employee. This is a great time to communicate the organization’s appreciation for their work.

  ❓ Ask questions from both sides of the topic. Ask about what makes the job one they want to keep, and also ask about what frustrations they have with the role or the organization.

  ✅ Be sure to have methods in place to actually follow up on the information obtained during these interviews. The only thing worse than not even asking what employees need is to ask and then completely ignore the answers. When making changes as a result of the information gained in these
  interviews, be sure to communicate about it—employees need to know their concerns were heard and are being addressed.

  🤲Pay attention to company culture before you begin. If your organization does not have a culture of openness and trust, employees may view these interviews warily, and they may not be as forthcoming. If this is a concern, consider working on incrementally improving
  the company culture and sticking with more anonymous means of soliciting feedback until you’re more confident that the opportunity to give feedback openly will be welcomed. That said, stay interviews can help to build
  trust, as long as the organization is transparent and sincerely acts upon the feedback given to show the employees their input is valued. 🤲

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