Growing People
Learn how to tackle questions regarding the growth of team members.
We'll cover the following
- Have you helped someone in your team grow to the next level in their career?
- Follow-up questions
- Has your report ever asked you for a promotion when they were not ready for one?
- What would you do if a report wants to switch from an IC to a manager role?
- Have you managed someone who was smart but did the minimum work needed to meet expectations?
- Have you proactively identified an engineer with good leadership prospects and helped them grow?
Growing people is one of the primary jobs of people managers. A people manager invests in helping people grow, learn new skills, acquire new experiences, and progress in their careers. Growing people shouldn’t mean growing your people to the next step on their career ladder. It should be a continuous process where people are always acquiring new skills.
Managers spend a significant amount of time helping their team members grow to the next level in their career ladder. Most companies require people to grow up to a certain level (called the terminal level) within a set time duration. Once an employee reaches the terminal level, they can choose not to grow anymore and keep meeting expectations at their current level. However, good people managers still continue to look for growth opportunities for such team members.
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