Growing future leaders: Nurturing team leads as a path to managerial succession
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Creates two team leads who each inherit three ICs, keeps four senior ICs reporting to manager and reduces the manager’s load; trains leads on giving and receiving feedback and difficult conversations, pairs them with mentors, and hands over performance goals and context; announces the change with role/responsibility split and checks in frequently; sees leads become comfortable in about six to nine months, gains successors and more focused development time for the rest of the team while noting mistakes around invitations for feedback and premature promises.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:27Growing a team too fast
- 3:32Team lead role as solution
- 4:59Selecting team leads
- 8:06Premature promises lessons
- 9:52Preparing for transition
- 10:56Lead responsibilities defined
- 13:44Leads in transition process
- 14:06Training new leads
- 16:11Passing team information
- 17:35Announcing changes
- 18:19Supporting transition
- 20:23Expanding lead roles
- 21:26Year with new structure
- 22:09Key takeaways for leaders
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