You’ve had a great week. Friday comes around and you are sitting in your office with a fresh cup of coffee, looking at the road map, quite satisfied that projects are moving along nicely, and milestones are being reached.  In fact, you are relishing in the fact that this is the best team you’ve ever had – and then it happens.  

The knock on the door.  It’s your key team member (you know, the one that has the relationships with the vendor and puts out fires before they happen) and she looks distressed.

“You get a second?” she asks

And then the bombshell – she was not looking for a new opportunity, but a colleague reached out and it’s an incredible offer that could not be refused or matched.  Sorry. You have two weeks. 

How do you build a talent pipeline to prepare for this?