Heyo! Welcome to the 100 R. just the good stuff with our practical business lessons.

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zen Home.

I'm also the co-founder of Webinar Ninja, an independent software company I started back in 2014.

In today's episode is Q&A Wednesday.

On Q&A Wednesdays I answer a question from one of you, one of our listeners.

If you got a question you want to ask, go ahead and email me over at omar at 100 mba.net.

Today's question is from Tim. And Tim asks, hey omar, I'm in a bit of a pickle.

One of my key players on my team surprised me and just resigned.

And honestly, I have no idea what to do.

I need to fill this role quickly and it's a pretty big position.

I'm also not really sure how to do a knowledge transfer this quickly. I got a few weeks to figure it out.

Would love any advice. Thanks Tim. Tim, I want to start by saying you are not the first or last person that had to deal with this situation. I myself have been in

this predicament a few times and I'm here to tell you it's okay. This will pass

you'll find somebody that will replace this position and hopefully they'll do great in their new job.

But right now we've got to focus on getting somebody in this job and making sure that the handover of responsibilities, skills, and knowledge is done properly.

But you don't have much time, so I'm going to give you my strategies when it comes to, one, quickly

finding a new hire, simultaneously doing a handover I know they're not

there yet but you still can do some stuff I'll show you and then three landing the

plane having a smooth transition allowing your business not to skip a beat. So let's get into it, let's get down to business.

It can be shocking for a business owner when they get the news that a team member is resigning. It's unexpected. And it's mostly because you're really

busy doing other things and it just seems out of the blue. Problem is that you're going to have to stop doing

those other things temporarily so that you can solve this problem. So you can find

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