[Lnc-business] Fwd: Goodbye to a valued colleague.

[Joe Bishop-Henchman]

My understanding of the best practice for exit interviews is that they 
occur for all departing employees, and that they be done by an HR 
professional, preferably one as far removed from the direct supervisor 
as possible. Then a couple things can happen. Management or the Board 
can get a full copy, or a summarized one. Or the HR person can distill 
the conversation into actionable recommendations and convey those. The 
latter usually gets more candidness from the departing employee, and 
produces something useful to do. Because they are sanitized and 
translated, they can be more opaque as to *why* something is a 
recommendation, which can be a pro or a con depending on how you look at 
it.

Exit interviews are totally uncomfortable for management but it's 
important they happen because otherwise managers will assume things 
about why an employee leaves rather than knowing. I have gotten useful 
information on how to improve how I am as a manager from every exit 
interview or how I communicate what we do and structure how we do it, 
even ones from awful people who did terrible work (which is certainly 
not the case here!).

I also seriously doubt we would get useful and actionable information 
from an "exit interview" in front of the full Board, even in closed 
session. No one does that. That's a show trial.

JBH

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Joe Bishop-Henchman
LNC Member (At-Large)
joe.bishop-henchman at lp.org
www.facebook.com/groups/189510455174837

On 2019-06-30 12:53, brent.olsen--- via Lnc-business wrote:
> I concur Ms. Mattson.
> 
> -Brent
> 
> On 2019-06-30 01:42, Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business wrote:
>> I would object to subjecting Lauren to a 17-person exit interview 
>> during
>> our limited meeting time together in Austin.  That experience might go 
>> on
>> her list of things she wants to talk about during her exit 
>> interview...
>> 
>> I think the EPCC is the appropriate body to conduct an exit interview, 
>> as
>> our policy manual says they "shall also be available to Staff to 
>> discuss on
>> a confidential basis the working environment."
>> 
>> -Alicia
>> 
>>