Career Development Roadblock?

I was always certain that a good manager was supposed to be a "Roadblock Remover" for their team. In the functional things that a team must do ( grow sales, develop products or whatever) this seems very straightforward. Unfortunately when it comes to careers, it is much more difficult.



For example, to achieve a certain career goal, often one must be very good at what they do. Unfortunately this creates the problem of now that the person is so good, why would I want to let them go on to something else? I found this has happened to me several times in the past.



I don't want that to happen to my team. In fact, I would consider it fantastic if those on my team could grow, develop and move on to head up teams of their own someday. Hopefully I can continue to remove roadblocks for them ( those that want to move on). I don't want to end up as the "Roadblock" for my team!

People ultimately want to get certain things out of a career. There are times where the company must come first - but if that is always the case then "my career" really isn't mine anymore.

Stay or go? Don't know............