Early in my people leader journey, one of the things I struggled with most was when someone from my team resigned. After investing what I believe was the best of me in developing and helping them, they decided to continue their professional life elsewhere. I remember taking those situations quite personally.
People indeed leave toxic cultures, bad managers, or even teams that tolerate bad teammates or peers, but people also leave great managers and teams – and that is ok!
The one thing that applies to all employees is that, sooner or later, everyone leaves a company.
To employees is super important to experience diverse work environments, and to be exposed to different types of challenges, constraints, peers and teams, stakeholders and situations to be shaped into more mature Design professionals.
To managers is key to learn to let go of their teams and to encourage them to take on new and different roles or challenges over time to help them develop more broadly, deeply or both.
After all, the more we mature as a discipline, the better for us all in Design.