Workshop · Leadership
From excellent employee to effective leader
How to identify, prepare and develop the right people before promoting them.
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Delivery
- On site · Virtual · Hybrid
- Participants
- From 8 to 25 participants
- Investment
- From $950
Reference price per session, before tax. The final proposal depends on scope, format and location.
The problem it solves
Almost every internal promotion is decided by looking at performance in the current role. It is the data you have, and it is the wrong data: it measures what the person does today, not what they will have to do tomorrow.
The result repeats with uncomfortable regularity. The organisation loses its best technician and gains a supervisor nobody prepared, who keeps doing the work he mastered because that is where he feels competent, and who discovers the hard way that leading former peers is a different trade.
What it covers
The workshop works the whole decision, not just the moment of the announcement: who to promote, on what evidence, what conversation has to happen first, and what support the person needs through the first ninety days.
It rests on two distinctions that are rarely made explicit. The first separates performance from potential: they are two axes, not one, and confusing them is what produces the overwhelmed supervisor. The second separates wanting the title from wanting the work: there are excellent people who do not want to lead, and offering promotion as the only form of recognition pushes them into a role they did not choose.
The session ends with a written promotion criterion that applies to the organisation in the room, not a generic model.
What participants learn
- Separate performance from leadership potential using observable criteria.
- Test whether a person actually wants to lead before offering the role.
- Design the employee-to-supervisor transition with milestones and support.
- Hold expectation conversations before and after the promotion.
- Build growth paths for people who do not want to manage.
Agenda
- Performance versus potential: two axes, not one
- Genuine interest in leading, and how to verify it
- The employee-to-supervisor transition
- Communicating with former peers
- Delegation as the first competence of command
- Handling conflict inside the team
- Accountability: expectations, follow-through and consequences
- Developing talent and growth plans
- Preparation before and support after the promotion
What the organisation leaves with
- A written promotion criterion that applies to your organisation.
- A map of who has leadership potential and who is not looking for it.
- A script for the expectation conversation ahead of your next promotion.
- A ninety-day support plan for new supervisors.
Who it is for
- Owners and directors who promote from within
- Managers with supervisors reporting to them
- Human Resources leads
- Newly promoted supervisors
Frequently asked questions
- Is it useful if we have no formal supervisors yet?
- Yes. The workshop was designed precisely for the moment before the first promotion, which is when these decisions are cheapest to correct.
- Can it be delivered to supervisors only, without leadership present?
- It can, and it works less well. The promotion criterion is set by whoever decides; if leadership is not in the room, the group leaves with a language nobody above them shares.
- What is the right group size?
- Between eight and twenty-five. Below eight the group work loses contrast, and above twenty-five there is no longer time for each participant to apply the material to their own team.
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