Promotions: Promoting the wrong people will create an environment to lose your best people…
When you are thinking of promoting people to a management or supervisory position – keep the following things in mind:
- Experience
- Skillset
- Seniority
- People skills
- Personality traits
- Personal interaction with staff they would be overseeing
- Management or Supervisory Training
Unfortunately, many people are promoted for the wrong reason…
- Family member
- Friend
- Favored personnel
- Easily controlled
These are just a few examples, however, I believe you understand the point that I am trying to make.
When the wrong people are given positions of authority, you create an atmosphere that other people will want to leave.
This needs to be taken into consideration as it usually isn’t worth losing the companies best employees because of promoting the wrong people.
Take the above things into consideration during the promotion phase and do what is best for the company and the direction the company is going in…
Questions to Ponder:
Are you in a position to promote someone?
Have you taken these things into consideration?
Does your current choice change once things are looked at differently?
Are you up for a promotion?
Who would you be supervising / managing?
How well do you mesh with those people?
Take things into consideration when promoting someone or when being offered a promotion.
