The Secret to Supporting Middle Level Managers During the Great Resignation
If one of your middle level managers leaves, who will replace them?
If one of your middle level managers leaves, who will replace them? Will you promote from within? Create an interim role? How will you support them?
According a report on work trends produced in 2021 by Microsoft, around 40 percent of employees are contemplating a career change in early 2022. That’s *right now*.
How will you support the new manager so they have the greatest chance of succeeding?
How will they manage the present while planning for a vastly different future? What does the future even look like?
Strategizing for an increasingly different future may create more change than ever before, which people resist. How will you help your new manager manage change?
How long will it take to produce some really good ideas and results?
The secret to a successful resolution
The secret to addressing these issues is in implementing creative problem-solving.
One of the quickest ways to generate trust in a manager and camaraderie in a team is by addressing a challenge together. Doing so creatively adds an additional opportunity for success.
But to successfully address a challenge with creativity requires using a system. Otherwise you could put lots of time and energy into a project and end up with a great result… but it doesn’t fix the problem. Ouch.
When it comes to preparing for the future, you can’t accurately predict what will happen. But you can help your staff hone their decision making and problem-solving skills to be better prepared for whatever comes their way. This isn’t a new theory. In the Accenture 2015 Innovation Survey, 84% of leaders said that they were “dependent on innovation for their company’s long term success.”
Our system for simplifying creative problem-solving
At The Potential Center, our mission is to simplify the creative problem-solving and innovation process so managers can address urgent, pervasive and expensive problems and build stronger, happier teams. Our Light Bulb Thinking™ framework is a system designed to encourage curiosity, critical thinking and creativity, and produce unique solutions and greater productivity.
Give the gift that keeps on giving
Helping staff solve problems creatively is the fastest way to become a more effective manager and leader of a high-performing team. Supporting your new manager by providing them with access to Light Bulb Thinking™ coaching or training is one of the most valuable gifts you can give them to get off to a running start.
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