promotion, everyone can do the job...?

everyone in an organization wants to be promoted, especially when we work in an organization. we hope that one day we'll get promoted to a higher position, taking over form our supervisor who is not doing justice to us. promotion to us might means getting a raise, more money to take home, better living, style, status in the society. but, promotion in real is additional responsibility, more accountability. it also means more headache, work longer hours, reports to submit and the worst is managing or supervising others.

by getting a promotion at the same place and location, having to manage and supervise subordinates who are our friends or colleagues before is tough. it's even tougher if we used to do things that we're not supposed to do while we were part of them before.

once promoted, we need the skill to manage, to supervise. it's like having a superpower but do not really know how to use it. without the skill we cannot get things done as expected. however, the good news is that management and supervisory skill can be learn. and the skill in managing human capital is thremendous.

i had a friend who refused promotion because of the additional roles that he needed to perform. he hated being supervisor. as a salesman, he could make more money selling than became a manager. and he did. he refused headache of managing subordinates.

i also met a friend who was the best salesman being promoted as sales manager. even he was the best salesman but the team he managed acored the worst among other sales teams. he wanted everything to be his way, so he had problems with his sales staff. initially he thought that he could be a great sales manager as well, but without a proper supervisory skill, it's impossible.

so, not everyone can be promoted. but we can learn the skill so that we can do the job well.