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Money is the most acceptable reason to give for leaving and the least informative. Six ways to ask, how to tell a genuine pay departure from money as a tiebreaker, and which of the three underlying problems you can fix.
Exit data fails at the presentation, not the collection. Six ways to turn notes into something actionable, a taxonomy that survives a year, and how to report on a small team without identifying anyone.
The moment a name is spoken it stops being a feedback exercise. Five escalation routes reviewed, the rule to write before you need it, and the wording that neither over-promises confidentiality nor shuts the person down.
Most exit interview questions are built to be answered, not to be useful. Six question types reviewed on what each actually yields, plus an ordered set you can run tomorrow and the questions worth cutting.
Standardisation makes exit data comparable and also makes it shallow. Six template decisions reviewed, a minimum viable template, and the failure patterns that make templates grow every quarter.
The real trade is depth against comparability, and the usual compromise delivers neither. Five formats compared, matched to volume and stake, plus why a delayed survey produces different answers.
These two conversations look similar and are structurally opposite. Where they diverge point by point, which questions belong in which, and what happens when a stay interview turns into a negotiation.
The person most convenient to run an exit interview is usually the one the leaver can least be honest with. Five options reviewed, plus what the manager should and should not be told afterwards.
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