344. How to Keep Great People Growing With You (Part 1) — Empire Building

You have an amazing person on your team, you want to keep them, and suddenly you find yourself promising a future role before you know whether the business actually needs it. We've been there.

In this episode, we're kicking off our PATH framework for creating growth opportunities without prematurely promoting people into roles that aren't right for them or your business. We start with P: Picture the Business. Before attaching someone's name to a future role, we share six questions to help you get clear on where the business is actually going:

What must be true of this business in one, three, or five years?
What production, GCI, gross margin, and net profit would support the future?
What functions will become bottlenecks as volume grows?
Which seats will the organization genuinely need?
Which work requires leadership, and which requires deeper expertise without managing people?
Which roles can be funded now, and what only becomes viable after a defined economic trigger?

Then we move into A: Align Ambitions. Instead of assuming your best people want your version of growth, we're sharing how to listen for what they really want. We talk about motivational interviews, separating career conversations from vision casting, and finding the "honest overlap" between three things: what the business needs, what the person wants, and what they're capable of.

Stay tuned for part two, where we'll break down T: Test the Future and H: Hold the Standard.

Resources:

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