If you don’t want a valued team member to quit, you need to pay attention to them and watch the signals carefully.
In my experience, here are three strong signals of someone intending to quit.
1️⃣ They start using all their personal leave – but on an ad hoc basis. So it’s not like they have a hospital stay – but it’s spread out over a few weeks.
2️⃣ They stop being on camera in meetings – and avoid coming into the office – especially on the days the rest of the team is in the building.
3️⃣ They avoid taking on new work – especially if it’s extra work like office parties etc. They have a deadline in their mind – so they have no interest in starting something that they won’t be there to finish.
Now all of this could also apply to someone who is disengaged.
But the hardest thing to anticipate is that sly team member who will go out of their way to do NONE of the above things, and then, wham, they hit you with their resignation. 😲
No one said people leadership was easy.
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