How To Build a Manager

A few months ago, I wrote about how hard it is to find staff, especially managers. At that time, I discussed two ways that we were going to build a manager from existing staff rather than search for a new one.

Recently, one of my clients had a great manager pass away unexpectedly. The first thing we did after we got over our initial shock was to put together a Go Fund Me to help his family in their time of need. The idea came from one of the other managers, who then put it into action. I had never done this before but I must say that it really brought everyone together and reminded us all of what is really important in life.

Secondly, we had to determine how to replace a great manager. 

Experience vs. No ExperienceIn my previous article, I discussed the advantages of giving managers and potential managers/supervisors a simple motivational survey. At this operation, we had given the survey to all of the management staff a year ago, and we found it extremely helpful at that time. We…