FROM TECHNICAL EXPERT TO PEOPLE LEADER.

While all managers can benefit from working one-on-one with a leadership coach, I find that it's better for a technical expert manager to first gain the skills they need to lead a team. CAREER AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT For years, the advice from management consultants and leadership coaches regarding building a strong leadership bench inside a company was: Don't promote your best technical employees - you will lose a good employee and gain a bad manager. My experience as a leadership coach who has worked with hundreds of managers tells me that the first leadership transition from technical expert to frontline manager is often the toughest leadership transition to navigate. [Extracted from the article]
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