At many businesses, there are employees who have been in their position for so long that no one else really knows what the job entails. Some employees are so good at their position that when they move out of it, important practices, understanding and resources are lost.

If this sounds like your company, there is a good chance that you’ll find yourself in a crunch when an employee is leaving and hurriedly tries to teach their successor everything they know before departing. There are no systems or processes in place to make sure the new employee fully understands their responsibilities or methods for how to get the work done to the company’s standards, and again, and they ultimately become the sole employee to know that their job entails.