How to keep employees from quitting rarely comes down to money. Gallup found 42% of voluntary employee turnover is preventable, and most of it traces back to one conversation that never happened. In this episode, Lia breaks down the retention conversation to have with your best person before they start looking, and tells two stories from her own career where 30 minutes would have kept her in a job she loved.
In this episode you will learn:
Why the person about to quit almost never tells their manager first, and what they do instead
What made a promotion conversation at Google land as nothing, and the version that would have kept her on the team
What to say when the answer is no and you can't change it, so the no doesn't end the relationship
The 3 steps of The Sit-Down applied to employee retention, including the words to open with
Why waiting for your team to raise a concern first never works, even for approachable leaders
The signals a good employee sends for months before the resignation lands
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