How and when do you bring up this topic? How can you increase the odds of
getting honest input from your employees? There is no single way or time to
ask. It could happen during a developmental or career discussion with your
employees. (You do hold those, don’t you?) Or you might schedule a meeting
with your valued employees for the express purpose of finding out what will
keep them. One manager sent the following invitation to give his key people
some time to think and to prepare for the conversation: