This is kind of weird advice but it’s important:
Don’t let the moment you show someone they’re professionally appreciated and you’re willing to help them do awesome new stuff be at their exit interview or early retirement. Even if you assume Everything Is Fine and never check in.
Don’t let the moment you show someone they’re professionally appreciated and you’re willing to help them do awesome new stuff be at their exit interview or early retirement. Even if you assume Everything Is Fine and never check in.
Then, when they have resolved to go? It is too late. They have made the difficult decision to go from your company or volunteer org or club. They are so very rarely going to rethink that decision or even be able to.
If you’re a manager or director you need to have candid conversations about what is causing your people to not succeed. If you’re like “hey, here is a cool thing this person could help with” the time is TODAY, because tomorrow they will assume you didn’t care enough to ask.
I have personally received some of the most stellar, cool offers in my entire career after deciding after months to stop volunteering at an org, or leave a job, or stop consulting with an group. And they’re like “bUt YoU’rE aN iNfluEncEr.” And I’m like, “but you never asked…”
It is so very frustrating. In personal and professional life, sometimes you have to just OFFER.
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