When The Team Loses a Player

Your key employee is jumping off. She knows the what and the why and she decided it was time to leap in a different direction. In doing so, she's made you question the rightness of your path. Sometimes it really is best if the employee leaves. It's tempting to react to the announced departure by trying to convince the employee to stay. But, realistically, they are all leaving. Everyone is a volunteer. There's value in a realistic understanding of the tenure of members of the team. They truly are all leaving, eventually, but striving to make a place that keeps them forever is the way to build the business so that's it's stronger, so that it's lasting, so that it sustains you and everyone with you for a very long, long time.