Reasons for promotion:

• Great skills
• Knowledge of product and company
• Human maturity
• Reliability

We choose the best one and promote him. Only a few of us realize how difficult can be the change of technical position to the position including a team-leading, solving personal problems, allocating activities and evaluating results. Being in this function is not easy at all and the change of skills and mindset is necessary. Even the best specialist has for sure all mentioned qualities but he needs to work on them. Find your time and give it to him, it will be very helpful.

Training process

Basic things – be careful, things that seem basic to you, does not have to seem basic to the new team leader.

The process set up – team leader tasks and responsibilities are brought to the person without any skills, based on this fact you should definitely show him how to set up processes and give a clear explanation of ïts importance. It is very usual that the specialist does not believe in managers responsibilities.

Soft skills – a variety of needed soft skills is wide, empathy, communication and also strict rigor. To lead the team is one of the most important skill, furthermore, you need to know how to motivate your team. You, the boss, are well aware of all these skills and you know how to use them. Now it is the high time to relay your experience to the team leader. Finally, he will help you a lot.

Support – your mission does not finish by explaining the processes and telling him the know-how. You will have to devote more attention in a few next weeks or months. Show him that you stand by him until he is self-confident enough.

All of these are clear and basic tips and therefore also very often disregarded. More time you devote to the new team leader, more advantages he will bring back to you. He will not be only more motivated but he will be also grateful to you.