Talent Starts Leaving Before the Resignation
Talent Starts Leaving Before the Resignation In many organizations, serious attention is not given to a high-performing employee until the resignation letter is already on the table. Suddenly, the questions begin: Why do you want to leave? Is salary the problem? Do you have a better offer? Is there anything we can offer to convince you to stay? But there is a far more important question that should have been asked much earlier: When did this employee actually start leaving? Talented employees rarely decide to leave overnight. A resignation is often only the final step in a journey that may have begun months — or even years — earlier. The employee may still arrive at the office every morning. Reply to emails. Attend meetings. Complete assignments. And appear to everyone around them as a perfectly normal employee. But internally, they are no longer the same person. They have already begun to withdraw quietly. And this kind of departure can be far more dangerous than the resignation...