5 Common Mistakes When Hiring Managers
The folks at Right Management recently listed the most common mistakes employers make when hiring or promoting managers- any surprises?
- Inadequately defining and evaluating critical roles
- Insufficient grooming of high-potential types through coaching, mentoring and training
- Overly subjective criteria and assessment tools
- Too much focus on “competencies” rather than intangibles like teamwork and morale boosting
- Giving inadequate consideration to outsiders
You can read the whole thing here…
So the biggest problems are not really defining the job ( because how many companies can actually tell you what their managers DO all day?) and not training people sufficiently (through any number of ways besides “training”).
How is your organization tackling these problems? How many of you received a clear picture of what you were stepping into and were effectively trained to assume that position (as opposed to “assuming the position”, which is how most of us learned)?
I should never read stuff like this on days I’m frustrated with my day job……