Hope you read the parts before, I was hoping this would not only be a guide for people who have/will or in future will have teams, but also as a some sort of remedy for all of the people who were hurt, damaged, by having a a poor Boss. I know how such an experience can influence self-esteem. What if it was not You but a toxic boss, or maybe the whole organization was toxic?
Hope this is useful.
They hire and promote the wrong people.
Hiring
Good, hard-working employees want to work with like-minded professionals. When those in charge don’t commit and do the hard work of hiring good people, it’s a huge demotivator for those who are stuck working alongside them.
I know managers who will not even tell their employees that they will or are in search of an employee. And this is a huge mistake, your employees might have perfect candidates for the position you are trying to fill. Going even further, if they refer someone you know they are putting their good name vouching for that person. The necessity of engaging yor employees into the process of recruitment grows as you work with higher level specialists, as you need them to be willing to work with the new employee.
Promoting the wrong people
When you work your tail off only to get passed over for a promotion that’s given to someone who glad-handed their way to the top, it’s a massive insult. No wonder it makes good people leave.
If we are talking about big organisations there is a way to avoid such situations. You need to have a clear, probably HR driven, process where you have tasks, test and a special body who will be responsible for the assesment. Who should be in the "assesment comitee"? A boss, maybe his superior and someone who is not reporting to any of those two. As this system is not perfect and needs more explanaion it helps preventing of promoting people who have just sneaked their way into the promotion with nice words.
I had an oportunity to work in a company where this sytem was very well prepared, as the organisation was focused on developing their own manager, mentros, specialists rather than get them from the market. And in this organisation I saw how catastrophic bypassing of this process might be.
The result of "hand picked" promotion was not only a manager who was terrible, but also losing more than half the team as some left becouse of new boss and some simply felt treated unfair as the oportunity to compete for the position was taken away from them.
9 manager sins - why do they leave? - part 1/9
9 manager sins - why do they leave? - part 2/9
9 manager sins - why do they leave? - part 3/9
