At some point in your employees' career, you can count on them having the following thoughts: "What happened? My job used to be fun but now it seems boring and predictable." This is a sign that retaining that employee could depend on job enrichment. This means structuring ways in which your employees can get the growth, challenge, stimulation and variety they value without leaving the company.

Create an opportunity to ask them the following questions:

1. Do you know how your job is important to the company?
2. What skills do you use on the job? What talents do you have that you don't use?
3. What is it about your job that you find moat challenging? Most rewarding?
4. In what areas would you like increased responsibility with respect to your current tasks?
5. What would you like to be doing a year from now? Two years from now?
6. If you could, in what ways would you change your job?

The idea is to bring employees through a thought process that allows them to think about their jobs and discover ideas for enrichment. The next step is to actively support the employee to make the changes that will have the most positive impact on both the company and the employee's job satisfaction.