POLL: What's one thing founders can do to help managers engage teams?
Abhinav Chugh
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Employees leave bad bosses and not bad companies and there is nothing worse for companies or founders to lose incredible talent due to bad managers. What can founders do to build great managers that can build an engaged workforce.
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Muhammad Harfoush ✨@harfoush
As a founder, I have always hesitated to hire a manager and even was afraid to become one.
I think, in a startup, one should always hire a people-detail-oriented person more than a technically gifted one. In startups, I believe it is more about empathy. That's why I made sure I chose my employees with the right culture fit and promote from within. If that's not what you want to do, then hire a better (or at least equal to) manager than you are.
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@abhi426 They definitely do. I try to make myself as invisible as possible as a middleman. I make sure the feedback is loud and clear while telling both parties that they're learning this new manager-employee relationship, so it is normal that we will struggle, but once we are open about it, we will learn and understand each other better.