Stop Promoting Your Best Employees Without Training Them to Lead
Growing companies hit a predictable wall when their star employees get promoted to management positions without proper training. Ryan Castle, co-founder of Level 10 Leaders, joined The Right-Hand Roadmap to tackle this common entrepreneurial business challenge head-on.
After working with over 250 organizations, Castle has identified the gap that stops companies from scaling: while visionary founders and Integrators may excel at leadership, they often struggle to develop the next layer of managers. Most businesses take their best doers, slap a manager title on them, and hope for the best, creating bottlenecks and overwhelmed Seconds-in-Command who end up co-managing departments instead of leading strategically.
You'll hear all about:
02:07 – What Level Ten Leaders does and how they help entrepreneurial companies scale leadership across the organization
03:18 – The difference between leadership (doing the right things) and management (doing things right), and why entrepreneurial founders often excel at one but not both
06:18 – The biggest mistake companies make: promoting top performers without teaching them how to lead, creating a capability gap between executives and managers
10:19 – The Peter Principle problem and why being great at a job doesn't automatically mean someone will be a great manager
13:54 – Navigating the transition from peer to manager while maintaining relationships
16:06 – Why second-in-commands and managers have the toughest jobs in organizations
19:00 – The player-coach dilemma: balancing individual contributor work with management responsibilities
20:42 – Transformation story: how Level Ten's program changed a “blame guy” into a valued team member
22:26 – Advice for second-in-commands: stop being a bottleneck and delegate to create leverage
26:16 – How to connect with Level Ten Leaders and get a free copy of “The Active Manager” book
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