Keep your best people: an employee retention plan
Stay-interview questions, retention risks, and targeted actions to keep key employees.
The prompt
Help me keep my best people.
Team or organization: [CONTEXT]
Who I'm worried about losing and why: [ROLES, signals]
What I know about why people leave or stay: [exit interviews, survey results, gossip]
Levers I control: [pay, flexibility, projects, growth, recognition, manager behavior]
Deliver:
1. Stay-interview questions (8–10) and how to run the conversation.
2. A retention-risk table: | Person/role | Risk level | Likely drivers | Action | Owner |
3. Team-wide actions that address common drivers.
4. Manager habits that reduce attrition.
5. How to measure whether it's working.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- CONTEXT
- ROLES, signals
- exit interviews, survey results, gossip
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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