Why Middle Management Enablement Programs Are the Fix Mid-Size Companies Keep Overlooking
Your best individual contributors just got promoted into management. Six months later, their teams are quietly disengaged, and nobody can explain why. You are thinking about what went wrong and how to close this gap. This is the gap that middle management enablement programs are built to close. And for mid-size companies, closing it fast is not optional anymore. What Middle Management Enablement Programs Actually Do Middle management enablement programs provide coaching, tools, and support structures to existing and new managers. These managers were never given this coaching, tools, and support structures when they got that designation. Companies usually promote people based on their technical prowess. Then they want to see people skills sprout out of nowhere. This hardly ever happens. A real enablement program helps managers develop the muscles that title alone cannot. The program does this by: Giving feedback Holding boundaries Managing up Staying human under pressure Why Does You...