Employee Engagement – Living Room HR

Let’s Have a Conversation – Exit Interviews

An exit interview is a meeting with an employee who has turned in their notice and is on their way out. By the time you’re having an exit interview with somebody, you know you’re not going to retain them. So why bother?

Let’s Have a Conversation – Skip Interviews

Skip interviews, also called skip level interviews, are conversations between an employee and their manager’s manager. Their value is twofold: giving employees an opportunity to get in front of leadership, and getting leadership more in tune with what’s happening on the ground with their teams. Much like stay interviews, you never know what will come up in these conversations…

Let’s Have a Conversation – Stay Interviews

Stay interviews are conversations you have to find out what’s going well and what could be going better. They can be done by a manager or HR and they’re an opportunity for employees to share their thoughts, perspectives, and overall experience. I like to ask questions that are specific enough to get meaningful answers, while still leaving a wide range of possible responses…

Kari’s Hierarchy of Workplace Needs

Employees have a wide range of needs in the workplace. Some are the absolute basics that need to be met in order for somebody to stay in their job. Other needs are what allow employees to not just survive, but thrive in the workplace. But if those basic needs aren’t being met, then those higher level needs are suddenly a whole lot less meaningful…