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Exit Interviews: Unlocking Employee Secrets

You probably spend much time recruiting and interviewing prospective employees.  Ideally, you'll spend as much time meeting with departing employees through exit interviews.  These interviews can help you uncover employee concerns, gain critical market information, and even help you keep good people over the long term.  This feature explains how.  The piece includes two sidebars, one covering the value of exit interviews and one offering sample exit interview questions.  1546 words.  [Feature 0416]

Storytelling: An Employee Satisfaction and Retention Tool

Stories can be great managerial tools.  Readers can use stories to recruit, motivate and inspire the people around them.  Here's how.  956 words.  [Feature 0015]

Employee Turnover: Minimize the Cost

How can your business readers ease the disruption caused by departing employees?  Here's a summary of powerful, but simple, tools.  Included is a sidebar:  What Does Turnover Really Cost?  1186 words.  [Feature 0013]

The New Employee Scavanger Hunt: A Training Tool for Today

If you run a business, you can speed up the orientation of new hires with a scavenger hunt -- a cost-effective, thoroughly enjoyable training technique.  This feature explains how.  Sidebar (scavenger hunt checklist) included.  779 words.  [Feature 9323]

New Employees: Welcoming Them to the Job

This article encourages readers to warmly welcome new employees to the work environment -- and suggests a dozen simple, low-cost ways to do just that.  A great feature for any supervisor.  830 words.  [Feature 8906]