My team had a really strong year with everyone receiving solid performance reviews. I assume ratings this cycle will continue to be strong. Everyone on my team wants a promotion, however, all individuals have gaps which I have flagged time and time again. Should I try to push through a promotion when I don’t believe the individual is ready or deal with the consequences of an upset team?
When the team has solid year, everyone feels that they deserve a promo. People do not realize what factors into rating and what factors into promo. The manager should know better. Hold your ground. It’s ok to take a chance if risk is low - specially if risk is not a soft skill risk.
You are saying soft skill is harder to bridge ?
Talk to cross team leads to get feedback for them. Likely just 1-2 people are ready for next level. Maybe 0.
Promotion to next level == already operating at that level. If it’s not happening, don’t fall into the manager trap of “sticking my head out for my engineer”. Your peers or the promo committee will not look at it that way. It would reflect negatively on your ability to assess and grow your team. I fought for my engineers to get them promoted. Realized the growth feedback they got had no impact afterwards and they continued to have the gaps and exhibit the same behavior with new titles So promote when ready
This is where my head is at. I guess I just needed some randoms on the internet to reassure I am doing the right thing. Thank you.