How to Promote your People | Luke Roxas Blog

You’ve all heard this story before: Jack is a good employee. In fact, he’s the best one you’ve got. He has excellent skills and everything you ask him to do turn out better than what you thought. So you promote him to supervisor. Six months in, with incompetent results and tons of complaints from former teammates later, you fire him. So what went wrong? You promoted him! Jack was doing an excellent job where he was when you pulled him out of an environment and job description that perfectly suited his strengths.

Just because you have a hardworking and highly competent employee doesn’t mean he deserves to be promoted to the next available high-ranking position. That’s why there are employee performance reviews. This process will give you the chance to hear directly from your employees what it is they do really well and what position they can really fill. This also gives you the chance to talk to them about specific areas for improvement and to determine where exactly this employee can grow in your company.

Here are three key things to consider when evaluating someone for a promotion:

Discover their strengths and weaknesses

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