Fighting the Good Fight
Explore how to manage employee departures by deciding when to accept a resignation or fight to retain key staff. Understand how to identify reasons for leaving, evaluate your team's needs, and collaborate with HR and peers to create effective retention strategies. This lesson equips you to handle difficult retention decisions with confidence and care.
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Regardless of whether a staff member has handed in their notice for a good or bad reason, the act of handing in their notice puts the ball firmly in your court. What are you going to do next? This is a conundrum that many managers face. At the most abstract level, it boils down to two choices:
- You accept the situation and initiate the process for them to leave.
- You fight for them to stay.
No battle is fought without effort or concession, so you’ll need to think long and hard about what you want to do next. However, there’s an added element of difficulty. Typically, to receive a job offer from another company, your staff member will have committed a sizable amount of time, energy, and emotion into deciding to research open positions, put together applications, complete multiple interview rounds, and so on. Regardless of the fact that average tenure is shortening in technology, changing jobs is still something that takes considerable effort.
So, what are you going to do next?
First, you need to decide whether you want to fight to keep them at all. This is based on how well they perform. Are they your top ...