How do leaders in your organization handle the movement of talent?

Our reader poll today asks: How do leaders in your organization handle the movement of talent in the company?

– We’re talent hoarders. We make it hard for people to move to new roles: 31%
– We allow people to move if they really want to change roles: 30%
– We encourage people to move and take on new challenging roles: 25%
– We actively manage movement of talent through a proactive process: 13%

There’s a lot of talent hoarding going on. While those people are valuable members of your team, when you hoard them or make it hard for them to move to new roles, including forcing them to ask for reassignment rather than offering it proactively, you can frustrate and demotivate them. People want to grow. As a leader, one job you have is to be a net exporter of talent. Bring people in without skills, build their skills, then send them off to bigger and better roles. Repeat. If you do this, you’ll make your people and your organization stronger. You’ll also build your personal leadership skills along the way.

Do you agree with these poll results?  Let us know in the comments below!

– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 190,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.