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Eric Siu explains why high performers often decline after promotion. They hit skill ceilings, face challenges too big too fast, or let insecurity and fear of loss paralyze their decisions. The jump in responsibility can tank output overnight.
Eric Siu explains why high performers often decline after promotion. They hit skill ceilings, face challenges too big too fast, or let insecurity and fear of loss paralyze their decisions. The jump in responsibility can tank output overnight.
So you'll have in your company, then you'll find this is you have someone that's a very high performer at their job. And you both agree that they should be promoted because of course you want to reward your team members and you want to help them grow in their careers. And they go into the next role and they're crushing it. And then they go in the next role, they're crushing it. And then they go to the next role and all of a sudden the performance just tanks. And you wonder what happened, what really is going on sometimes. Maybe you hit the ceiling and maybe they're not skilled. Maybe you gave them a challenge too big, at which point you can identify those. But what I have learned a lot of times around insecurities, they feel more nervous. The responsibilities are too high. The fear of loss gets so much that it takes away their confidence and they're not making those decisions that they were making before at the same fast pace, which is hurting their output.
