Marc Haine explains why leaders must invest in training and mentorship when promoting people into new roles. Without proper skill development and support, new leaders become frustrated, teams dysfunction, and good employees leave.
Michael Jordan was a wonderful basketball player, but he was a lousy coach. But Michael Jordan's coach was a wonderful coach, but he was a lousy player. So, to move people into roles, we need to create a skill development set. We need to take their skills that they do have and their curiosity on how to become better. And we need to leverage that by giving them the training Giving them the mentorship to be able to succeed. The outfall is if we don't do that, ultimately what happens is they get frustrated, the team gets frustrated, things start to fall apart, and sometimes you end up with dysfunctional corporate cultures or worse, the person you just promoted will quit and go somewhere else. So that is, I think that covers kind of the, like at a 30,000 view thing.
