Retention Starts Here: Stop Losing Your Critical Talent and Start Keeping Them With Stay Interviews!

Employee turnover is expensive, disruptive, and often preventable. Stay interviews are one of the most underutilized yet powerful tools for employee retention. 
They are a valuable tool for improving employee retention and engagement by providing a structured opportunity for leaders and managers to understand employees' needs and address potential issues before they start looking elsewhere. Here’ s how stay interviews improve employee engagement and retention. They will:

•    Identify and Address Concerns Early: They allow managers to proactively recognize potential problems that might be causing an employee to consider leaving. This could include workload issues, lack of recognition, career development or other problems that can cause them to start looking elsewhere. 
•    Build Trust and Communication: The process of conducting stay interviews demonstrates that the organization values its employees and their input, fostering a sense of trust and making them more likely to stay with you.
•    Most Importantly Reduce Turnover Costs: By proactively dealing with issues and improving employee satisfaction, stay interviews can help reduce employee turnover, saving the organization time and money associated with hiring and training new staff. 

 Therefore, by utilizing stay interviews as a management and human resource retention tool, organizations can create a more engaged and productive workforce as well as build a stronger, more resilient workplace culture. 

Marcia Zidle, the Smart Moves Coach, is a board-certified executive and career coach, business management consultant, and keynote speaker, with over 25 years of management, business consulting, and international experience in a variety of industries including health care, financial services, oil and gas, manufacturing, insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, government and nonprofits.

 She has expertise in strategy and alignment; executive and team leadership development; social and emotional intelligence; employee engagement and innovation; career and organization change management; employee relations and talent management.
 
Marcia has been selected as one of LinkedIn Profinder’s top coaches for the past 7 years. Check out the 200 + LinkedIn articles she’s authored on Leadership, Management, and Human Resources topics that have facilitated organizations to leverage their leadership and human capital assets generating greater effectiveness and profitability.

Marcia’s claim to fame is as a world traveler having a multi-cultural spirit and perspective. She has lived as an expatriate with her family in Scandinavia and Australia. In fact, one of her children is an "Aussie". She’s traveled to over 30 countries throughout Europe, Middle East, Far East, and the South Pacific.