Why it is okay to tell your employee to look for another job!

If you are run a company or head a team, this piece of advice might help you to retain your best employees. Asking the best performers of your team to look for other job options is a smart way to understand them better and make them stick (and loving!) to their present job. Wondering how? Here’s how a conversation on this topic can be a win-win situation for both of you.

First of all, make your employee understand your intention behind holding this conversation. Asking your employee to look for other job prospective might make them think you are about to fire them and give them sleepless nights. Look for the right time to talk on this topic and let them know that you care about their learning, career growth and you want the best for them.

A healthy discussion will help your employee to open up about the problems he/she is facing in the current job profile and the team. Encourage him/her to share their professional aspirations, dreams and see how you can help them. May be you can give a new project, negotiate a raise or together come up with a plan on how they can get promoted (think about tasks and assignments) in the coming time (say next 6 months).

Sometimes, the management of an organisation might not be aware about each and every problem faced by employees and hence talking to your top performers will give you an idea about the same. The result? You will be able to retain your employees even before they think about putting down their papers. Plus, do we need to tell that happy and content employees perform better at work?

Whenever the employee leaves the organisation, he/she would always give a good feedback of the company and recommend it to their peers as a great place to work. Also, your genuine effort might make the same employee come back to your company in future.

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