One of the unfortunate results I have seen from not promoting good employees in the right way is to see the loss of a good employee in the position they leave, plus, eventually the loss of the employee themselves. Yet, if we learn the right way to promote, the great majority of this doesn’t have to happen.
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It reminds of a situation where I talked to a young man about him wanting to leave the department he was in and try something else that would interest him more.
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Of course at the same time that he is thinking of these things, there are job opportunities posted for those that are within the company to get the first chance to apply for.
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So what this young man did was to see that there was a sales position open that would pay quite a bit more than the position he was in. So he talked to me about it to see what I thought.
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First of all I discussed with him what the reason was that he wanted the new position. Did he want it because it was something that really fit in with what he wanted to do and had had his eyes on it for awhile? Was it that he just didn’t like the department that he was in or the manager, and he just wanted to move out of it and this was the best current opportunity available?
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All of these are questions that need to be answered. Here was a very good employee that, whether he knew it or not, was deciding whether he was going to stay with the company or not.
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Next time: The process that I initiated
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This post is Part One Whether to Promote or not: Part Two Whether to Promote or not: Part Three
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