3822638 - Error: "Your workflow is configured such that the request would come back to the request owner during some step. Please contact your Employee Administrator to change the approvers."

When trying to approve a request, the approver receives the following message in red: "Your workflow is configured such that the request would come back to the request owner during some step. Please contact your Employee Administrator to change the approvers."  How do I fix this?

error during approval caused by request being routed to the request owner for approval , KBA , CON-EXP-ADM-WFL-WL , Workflow , Problem