Exec Development is a Different Game

Managing Direct Reports What do you look for in the people working for you? How do you figure that out in the interview process? How do you train them for success? What is your process for evaluating them?

WHY YOU SHOULD TRAIN YOUR PEOPLE

The other essential component of a company’s training program is management training. Management training is the best place to start setting expectations for your management team. Do you expect them to hold regular one-on-one meetings with their employees? Do you expect them to give performance feedback? Do you expect them to train their people? Do

One good test for determining whether to go with outside experience versus internal promotion is to figure out whether you value inside knowledge or outside knowledge more for the position. For example, for engineering managers the comprehensive knowledge of the code base and engineering team is usually more important and difficult to acquire than

As CEO, you must constantly evaluate all the members of your team. However, evaluating people against the future needs of the company based on a theoretical view of how they will perform is counterproductive, for the following reasons: Managing at scale is a learned skill rather than a natural ability. Nobody comes out of the womb knowing how to ma

WHY STARTUPS SHOULD TRAIN THEIR PEOPLE