Skills Promoting from Within or External Hires?
Contributors:
Craig Carra
Doug Cunningham
Kelly Ehler
Erin Robbins
Jeff Codd
Craig Carra , Chief Financial Officer, MOBILion Systems Inc
Motivation has always been a critical element of keeping teams engaged to drive results. This has not only remained true but increased in importance during COVID-19. During my career, there have been several opportunities to add a strong manager to help lead the accounting and finance function. I have experience both promoting current team members to a manager role and hiring external candidates to help lead my team. Before promoting someone to a manager role, you want to ensure that the person possesses the talent to be a strong manager and that becoming a manager is one of his or her career goals. A big mistake I frequently see is promoting someone to a manager who doesn’t necessarily want to lead people. Adding management responsibility to someone’s job duties adds a different level of responsibility and stress, and not all people want or are ready for it. So before promoting someone to a manager role, have an honest conversation and make sure that they truly understand the expectations and want to gain that experience.
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