What’s One Thing Employers Should Do When They Are Promoting Someone To Become A Manager?

Speaker 1: (00:00)
What's one thing that employers should do when they are promoting someone to becoming a manager?

Speaker 2: (00:05)
Have a real think, long and hard, about why you're promoting them to manager. Are you promoting them to manager because that's the only way they're going to get a pay rise? And therefore you run the risk of taking an incredibly powerful member of staff out of what it is they do best every day, into a role that you have no confidence whether they can or cannot do it. If so, the thinking there perhaps needs to be around the structure of the company. And how people achieve the pay that you think is fair for the work they do. Because promoting to a manager is not the best way to do it. In fact, I'd probably go as far as say, it's a dreadful way to appoint managers. So really if that's what you're thinking about, actually, subconsciously you're thinking about something else that perhaps hasn't been brought to your attention. And you really need to start looking at the structure of your salaries and your pay.