Any company seeking to manage transitions smoothly should always have people waiting in the wings in the event of a departure. Continually training and preparing your staff to move up in the company, either with more responsibility or more pay (not necessarily tied together) keeps your company ready for any transition.<\/p>\n
The complaints I hear from people about having a transition process like this are “if I train people to do more, they will get a job elsewhere” or “if I train people for a promotion and they don’t get it, they will be dissatisfied.”<\/p>\n
It’s better to have an over-trained team than one which lacks skill or personality. I’ve worked for companies who always were smart about transition; at any time, these companies always had someone who could step in in the event of illness, resignation, or change in volume of business.<\/p>\n
As for the departing employees themselves, it is important to get a “data dump” from them before they leave and perhaps hire them on as a freelance consultant as needed to enable the transition process to proceed properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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