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The Fastest Way to Kill Someone’s Confidence on a Team
What happens when you promote people into a role and never train them for it
The fastest way to kill someone’s confidence on a team is to promote them to a role and fail to train them.
It happens all the time. Someone does good work, the team notices, and a new title shows up. The announcement goes out, people congratulate them, and then everyone goes back to work.
Nobody asks what this person needs in order to do a job they have never done before. That is where the damage starts, and it starts on day one.
The title comes with everything except the support
When you promote someone, you hand them three things.
- the title
- the responsibility
- and the pressure.
The title is the easy part. It costs nothing to type into a system. The responsibility arrives immediately, because decisions now land on their desk that used to land on someone else’s.
The pressure arrives right alongside it, because the team and the leadership above them are now watching how they…
