Promoting the right people within an organization is key its long term success. Once someone is given an enhanced title, this is just the beginning of what will hopefully be a period of personal growth, empowerment and collaboration. Managers (or anyone in a position of greater responsibility or authority) need to also know what is expected of them and to be given the opportunity to have a voice, collaborate and successfully lead and inspire others around them. Most times, this requires continued support from upper management.
You Just Promoted Someone to a Manager Role – But How Do You Teach Them to Be a Good One?
It’s standard practice for companies to promote employees into management roles as a reward for star performance. And it makes sense-you want to endorse those employees who are driving your company toward success. But this practice has one glaring flaw: companies almost never invest adequate resources into training those former star performers to become star managers.
