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When organizations have a management role that needs to be filled; the solution seems obvious: promote the top employee and watch them thrive as a manager. Promoting with this thought process can lead to poor performance from both the new manager and his or her team. Turning a star employee into an effective manager requires both the enterprise and the employee to put time and training into management development.
Placing a star employee into a management role and expecting similar stellar performance may appear intuitive. Supervisory roles require a different skill set and approach which not every employee possesses.
A manager's role is to effectively lead a team to accomplish a goal. Strong managers accomplish this through communication, delegation, and collaboration.
Employee roles tend to focus on individual efforts and accomplishments. Teamwork is important to an employee, but they exert less influence over the culture compared to a manager.
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