I just saw a great presentation the other day on how to increase employee engagement and productivity. One points that I took away from this presentation was the idea of a “Stay Interview”. Most companies have an exit interview process that tries to understand why an employee is leaving the company. I know many companies take the time to conduct these interviews, but I’m not sure how many organization actually use this information.
The premise of a “Stay interview” is interesting, because it could help an organization to understand why people stay with their company. This information could be used in many ways. First, it could be used as a recruiting tool, to attract top talent, by telling them what current employees say about the role and/or company. Next, it could be used to see which benefits your employees love and which ones aren’t as useful. Finally, the information can be used to improve efficiency with in the position, by asking employees for their ideas to increase productivity.
Any way you look at the “Stay Interview” it makes sense for a business to try it. It could have a dramatic effect on an organization, while being cost-effective and easy to use. Here at ECI, we could actually take the “Stay interview” and put it into a survey that employees take electronically. Then we could use performance data to compare the responses of Top Performer against other performance groups to see what your best employee’s really value and how that compares to the others.
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