A short conversational video (Chrissy Myers and an unnamed speaker) highlighting the common problem of promoting high-performing individual contributors into management roles without giving them leadership training or tools. The speakers note that skilled workers (engineers, salespeople, IT) can become ineffective leaders when promoted without preparation and that HR often facilitates such promotions.
I kept seeing people getting promoted who might have been, in some cases, they were good at their jobs. They were a good engineer, they were a good salesperson, they were a good IT person. They would get promoted and be a horrible leader because they weren't given any tools to be a better leader. And I just felt like I can provide the tools I can make. I can do something here to cause people that could be good leaders become good leaders.
Yes. And that's one of the struggles that I see often, especially on the HR side of things. Someone's really good at their job. Let's promote them to a manager without any of those skills.
