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Have ‘Stay Conversations’ with Your Staff to Address Staff Turnover
Want to do more to address employee turnover? Start with a stay conversation to learn about needs, motivations, and engagement drivers.
Recently, I made the decision to leave my job. Part of the reason is that no one asked me what I needed in order to stay.
In the five and a half months I worked here, I never had a check-in meeting or one-on-one with a supervisor. Even though our internal policies ask for a 3-month evaluation, I never shared what I wanted or needed to stay.
Only in my last conversation, when I turned in a letter of resignation, did anyone ask me what I wanted in order to stay. By that point, there was nothing I wanted or needed from this organization
Yet, I wonder what would have happened had I been asked earlier what I needed. What if I had been asked to stay before I decided to leave?
Start with a Conversation
Authors Denise Mclain and Iseult Morgan, in Overwhelmed by Employee Turnover? Have Stay Conversations by Gallup Workplace, shared the increasing need for “stay” conversations with staff.
“One of the best ways to outmaneuver turnover is to have frequent, meaningful conversations with employees. Now more than ever, leaders need to enable…
