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When an expert employee leaves his or her post (retirement, mobility, resignation), he or she takes with him or her a significant amount of tacit knowledge: business tricks, logic of past decisions, internal networks, undocumented best practices, etc. This loss is difficult to recover if no transmission process has been set up beforehand. <\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the organization can suffer a drop in performance: repeated errors, longer deadlines, loss of quality, customer dissatisfaction&#8230; The remaining teams are sometimes left to their own devices, leading to stress, overwork and even internal tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of transmission can also slow down the development of new recruits&#8217; skills. Without mentoring, reference points or shared experience, young talent can feel lost, which can hinder their integration and retention. <\/p>\n<p>On a strategic level, this slows down innovation and the evolution of practices. The organization loses its collective memory, affecting its ability to learn from experience, anticipate change and renew itself. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, it can damage the company&#8217;s image, both internally and externally. Failing to value transmission gives the impression of a short-termist, unhuman and unstructured model. <\/p>\n<p>For all these reasons, setting up transmission systems (mentoring, documentation, pairs, cross-training) is not only an asset&#8230; but a necessity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to organize the transmission of key knowledge within an organization can have serious consequences, which are often underestimated. 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