Leaders support and empower others, they don’t bring them down. This also applies when people are leaving your team and moving onto new opportunities and at times even completely different careers. Good people and good employees should always be supported, even when their immediate departure will impose certain limitations and challenges to your operations.
Help them during the transition phase and work with them to help you and the rest of your team as they prepare their exit. Don’t limit their opportunities and growth and do not make their last days within your organization anything other than supportive.
Finally, don’t forget, you may work together again.