Dan Martell - September 14, 2024


Exit interviews vs stay interviews

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Dan Martell
3 pieces of advice for starting your first business You never want to close 100% of your sales

Episode Stats


Length

33 seconds

Words per minute

264.01

Word count

146

Sentence count

6


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In this episode, I talk about why you should never do an exit interview and why you need to focus on the people that are on your team instead. I also talk about the importance of not changing your culture for people that aren't even there anymore.

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00:00:00.000 Never do exit interviews, always do stay interviews.
00:00:03.400 So most people do exit interviews
00:00:04.660 and figure out what they could fix
00:00:05.660 and change the business and the culture
00:00:07.260 for somebody that's no longer there.
00:00:08.740 Instead of interviewing the people that they love
00:00:10.900 that are on the team and asking them,
00:00:12.320 why are you staying?
00:00:13.440 If I can figure out why you're staying,
00:00:14.860 then I can front load that in my interviews
00:00:16.600 and conversations with new hires
00:00:18.020 to make sure I get people that are aligned
00:00:19.600 so I can get more people just like them.
00:00:21.300 At the end of the day, your business is gonna succeed
00:00:23.360 or it's gonna fail, but I can guarantee you one thing,
00:00:25.720 you will be there.
00:00:26.600 So you have to build the business
00:00:28.100 the way you want it to work.
00:00:29.680 Don't change your culture for people that aren't even there anymore.