A good start is the key to a great collaboration. Companies pay a lot of attention to the so-called ” onboarden of their co-workers. But it is good to say goodbye, it is just as important. “Ex-employees are ambassadors of your business.”

if you are a software company AFAS, there is no employee who is let go without just as the sun set. So, everyone who goes away to a special verrassingsdoos to your home. “There’s a coffee mug, a tissuedoos with the words “with nostalgia”, and a key chain with a picture of the boss,” says the hr manager, Britt Breure.

This is, of course, is funny and thoughtful, but verrassingsdoos, it is not just the mind. “The outgoing of the employees are the greatest ambassadors of your business,” says Breure. Not the least important, especially since a lot of the old staff continue to be active in the network of the SEA.

“Often, they will continue to use our products or work with one of our customers,” explains Breure out. She added: “a lot of New challenges coming from ex-employees.”

very Little attention is paid to to say goodbye < / p> now, However, devote a few companies to really focus on a good time to say goodbye to their workers. With onboarding you do the majority of companies, however, are a good start, it is crucial to have a good working relationship.

“it’s Only now that it blows the focus on off-boarding to the Netherlands.

Peter Straatsma, CCO Appical

As it turned out, from a study by 2018, the Global Culture Report, that is, when there is a successful onboardingprocedure the involvement of the person with a 70 per cent increase. A good way to say goodbye, also referred to as ‘off-boarding’ as they are called, by contrast, is a cuckoo in the nest.

“In the United States, the United Kingdom, there is a lot of attention to off-boarding,” says Straatsma, CCO at Appical, a specialist in the area of onboarding and off-boarding. “It’s only now that blows, who pays attention also to the Netherlands.

Ex-hire employees save money < / p> it’s the right way to say goodbye to your staff and your company a lot of results.

“for Instance, is that if someone is after a certain number of years in service will occur,” writes the managing director, David Sturt, of the American a specialist in the human resources department by O. C. Tanner, in an article in the Harvard Business Review. He is an example of this. When he was nineteen years ago, at the O. C Tanner was involved in a start-up in Portland to go to work, and he was not going to come back.

“as A former employee, was already familiar with the culture, and the state of affairs.”

David Sturt, a specialist human resources
But during the course of the afscheidslunch and his colleagues did with the CEO of a conversation in which he explicitly thanked him, and insisted that Sturt have always been in service to her. In order to make it clear that he really meant it, he would do it, even for a one-way ticket from Portland to Salt Lake City in. “That’s when he gave me a two and a half years later, a job offer, the manner in which the CEO at the time to say farewell to me had been taken, for me, is the deciding factor,” writes Sturt, in the piece.

of Course, Sturts boss just to have someone else be able to take a position, but it would probably be more expensive for me. “As a new employee, onboarding is costing your company a lot of money,” explains Sturt from in this article. “As a former employee, was already familiar with the culture, and the state of affairs of the company. This will make the process of onboarding is faster and more flexible.”

the most involved < / p> Incidentally, if you don’t have a party or verrassingsdoos. “A fine farewell, and think of you with a sense of warmth to your employer to be back,” says Straatsma. This can be achieved by providing a drink or a meal for someone in the organisation, but also to make sure that the person on the last day of work commitment to do this. For example, someone in the last weeks on a very interesting project.

“So, do you have someone in recent weeks, a bit of a sentence.” Another way of valuation is to express, it is by departing employees to be actively involved in the training of their new colleagues. “Certainly, millennials think it’s important to have something that they can be hard to have worked very well how to wear it,” explains Straatsma, from.

Breure’s going on with each and every staff member who resigns in a conversation. “I’ll ask them what they’re going to miss out on to the SEA, and what they would like to do it,” she says. According to Straatsma, can you get that feedback, it is best to make before the employee’s departure. “It shows people that you really have something to do with it, and feel they are being taken seriously.”