One widely-circulated statistic holds that today's average 25-year-old has already worked more than six jobs since his or her 18th birthday. Even older generations job-hop every couple of years; through their 40s, boomers changed jobs about once every two years. Thinking about how these figures apply to your business, you can certainly expect that you'll lose staff every year, and in all likelihood, from time to time you will lose a key employee.

But while the departure of a key employee may come as a blow to your business, there are ways to handle it gracefully and keep moving forward.

Adam Toren, contributor to Entrepreneur.com, offers tips for coping with a trusted employee’s exit from your organization. (more…)