Just a quick thought today on building your team when people leave.

The people who work for you are one of the most important investments that you have in your company. You should spend a lot of time and investment to make sure you have a happy and productive team. Recently we have had a couple of people leave the team, for personal and professional reasons and this can be very hard to take if they are key to your business and it can feel like it will be impossible to replace them.

I was once fortunate enough to be given some great advice from Sir Ronald Cohen who said when someone leaves your company you should see it as an opportunity to replace them with someone even better. So if you lose a developer, replace them with an even better developer, in this way you find that the quality of your team will improve at a much faster rate. This is very good advice but it is easier said than done.