As an employer have you ever thought, “Do I have the correct employees in the job?” Employees that are a natural fit are happy in their job, remain on the job longer and are most productive. Often in business, clients promote employees into jobs because “they are doing well in their current role” so there is assumption they can and should be promoted into something with more responsibility. Unfortunately, more often than not, these employees fail in the new role, and management is baffled.
Other times, as we start small businesses, we hire the people that we feel will be most loyal – friends and family. That works fine for a few years until the business starts to grow; suddenly your college buddy who majored in “communications” is running your operations department. All is fine when you are putting out 1000 orders per year and your profit margin is 2%. But now that you’ve been marketing you have taken on 20 new clients, your production is going to increase by 300%, your warehouse needs to grow by 40%, you need to hire 20 new production workers and some management personnel….can your old college buddy still handle the job? Probably not.
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