Would Your Best Employee Hire YOU Back?

A retention question for leaders: would your best employee hire you back?

In this short video, Vinay Pasricha asks leaders one question and tells them to answer it honestly: would your best employee hire you back? He points out that hiring was never a one-way decision, because the best people are always quietly judging the company in return. If the person you are most afraid to lose could choose their company again today, would they choose yours? He says most leaders never ask this because the answer is frightening, yet "would my people choose me again?" is the real signal. He suggests walking through the team name by name. The names where a leader hesitates, he argues, point not to a people problem but to a frequency problem, the idea at the centre of his book Organizational Frequency, and the only one worth solving.

Key points

• Hiring is two-way: your best people are always quietly judging you back.
• The key test: if your most valued employee could choose their company again today, would they choose yours?
• Most leaders avoid the question because the answer is frightening.
• Hesitation over a name signals a frequency problem, not a people problem.

Would your best employee hire you back?

Topics

• would your best employee hire you back
• employee retention question for leaders
• why good employees leave
• organizational frequency
• leadership self assessment
• company culture retention
• two way hiring