Perhaps you have pulled together a team whose efficiency and effectiveness should become the stuff of graduate school case studies. Congratulations! Now you must keep your team happy and functioning or you risk failure. There is a difference between team members strolling out the door with regrets and fondness and team members sprinting out the second an opening appears. The latter case means significant loss to the team and organization. A leader needs to understand how to retain team members and to recognize their contributions and accomplishments.

