118 SOME OF OUR favorite articles on RETENTION • Top 10 Ways to Decrease Turnover on Your Sales Team by Tirzah Thornburg • A Key Piece in Successful Employee Engagement By Deborah Fulghum • 3 Steps to Make Sure Individual Focus Meetings are Never Mediocre by Matt Sunshine After spending time finding, selecting, and developing highly talented people, the last thing you want to do is lose them! Losing an employee is tough on morale, time-consuming for those who must carry the weight, hard on those who need to recruit to fill the gap, and costly to the bottom line. People join a company and they leave a boss. That’s hard to hear, but there’s also a silver lining in there. As a manager, you can have an enormously positive impact here!