Why You Shouldn’t Promote Your Best Employee

If you're about to promote somebody on your team into leadership. Don't do it just yet, because you may promote the wrong person. When you need another leader, it's easy to look at the team member who's crushing it and think They're the obvious choice. They're great at their job, they get results.

But that doesn't automatically mean they'll be good at leading people. If you promote the wrong person or somebody who just isn't ready. you can create an even bigger problem than the one that you're trying to solve. So how do you know who's ready for leadership?

After coaching business owners for almost 20 years and leading teams here at Ramsey, there are three things that I look for. I wouldn't promote somebody unless they have all three. But before I tell you what those are, go ahead and subscribe for more business and leadership content like this. Years ago, we had one team member, let's call her Susan. She was the top dog on our sales team.

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