Do This When Your Best Employee Quits!

You must do this if your star employee quits! How to handle the departure of a top performing employee with grace, skill and professionalism.

How to handle the resignation of a great performer. As a people manager you're going to get a lot of employee churn. People will come and go, and replacing them is part of the job. And it's a challenge in itself. Find out why good employees quit and what to do.

Sometimes it's pretty easy. Someone decides to leave and it's no big deal. They're a reasonable performer, but replaceable. Or they're a contractor or outsourced employee , where churn is part of the game.

But what do you do when the one person in your team that you don't want to leave, tells you that they're on their way?

This is always one of the most difficult things a team leader has to go through as there are a number of considerations to take into account. As a leader you still have a lot to do to ensure that the departure of your star performer doesn't leave any lasting damage on any of your team or the employee themselves.

And there's actually a lot to gain. Especially if it's an employee that you've had a positive relationship with.

So here's the Productivity ACE take on what you can do as a leader when your star performer announces that they're off.

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[bonfacemacharia]

Top performers are overworked, underpaid and overlooked for promotions.

[como]

Most top performers leave because poor performers drag the team down and weak managers ignore it.

[TeeHaa]

Don't be a jerk. I subscribe that.
We lost one of our best people because he wanted to open his own passion-project (outgrown hobby). We genuinely wished him good luck and told him that our door will be always open.

18 months later it happens that it doesn't went as good as he hoped and he reapplied, no hard feelings on both sides and we are so very happy to get one great employee back.

[dmockracey]

Try being proactive and treat that employee like you need them BEFORE they leave.

[disgruntledtoons]

In a well-run company, when a top performer leaves, the junior employee who has been managed so that he/she has grown and is ready to fill the position is moved into the position, and other junior employees are moved up, and the new bottom-level opening is filled by HR.

In a poorly-run company, where employee growth is not cultivated, HR is tasked with finding someone just like the guy who left, while his workload is haphazardly divided between his supervisor and some of his subordinates.

[samanthahardy]

Some people leave when the company culture turns toxic. Co workers back stab and run to HR complaining about you to push you out so that they can recommend a friend to fill your position in order to get a recommendation bonus in their pay packet.

[boedilllard]

2 things to look at when your best employee quits - look at your pay scale and look at their manager.

[quanghuynguyenang]

More money, more rest time... Im willing to leave my company whenever my lady need it

[tommyboy]

It's ok, they will hire a few people to replace me as usual.

[peterk]

I love this - I'm not a people manager, don't want to be, but if I WAS, my philosophy would be exactly the same "my role is to make you too good to be here"

[decimatesable]

I recently did this in a department I worked in. 3 months later I got a promotion to that department being their team leader. It's going to be quite interesting going from being a regular employee along side them to being their leader. When I left 5 others left as well. Wasn't my intention to hurt the department. I just work extremely hard and put in the extra efforts.

[irynad]

Top performers leave because of weak middle management. My manager literally told me that he does not promote me while I am looking for opportunity I fit in for a year because I successfully combine team lead and top solution design analyst so who is gonna do the job… Great, say bye to both and good luck!

[Cohen.the.Worrier]

Any tips for when we fired him?
_But why did you fire him?_
Well, we didn't know he was a top performer until after we fired him.

[danielrichwine]

Once I quit and worked out a good notice, and my boss pulled me aside one day and asked how I could do this in such a busy time. Mind I had worked crazy hours for 2 solid years at that point and it wasn't going to change anytime soon.

[ScienceNotFaith]

Ha, Ha, Ha, Stop! You're making my sides hurt!!!! You think any employer is going to care why their star employee quit? Ha, Ha, Ha... You're too much. They will spin it that the employee was the problem and go on as usual. What planet are you on where you think the employer will change? 😂😂😂😂

[gary]

I've seen this happen when the Team Lead refuses to deal with squabbles between workers that evolve into a nasty feud. In other words the team lead refused to do their job and deal with it properly..toxic leadership.

[James-wsze]

Top performers leave because of pay and bad management.

[DanielHYNg]

Thank you so much for your powerful advices.

[zkennedy]

Just show some fk apreaction for the people who work under you, a simple 'I very appreciate your dedication for the company, thank you' can avoid a big headache.

[pierre-rose]

What do you do ? Roll up your sleeves and start working, mate !