Promote From Within

handle personnel issues, including perhaps firing someone?

Five More Tips on Promoting From Within

1. Understand your advantage. If yours is a small or mid-sized company, you might be in a better position to know what people's abilities and interests are than if you had a larger company.

Why? In a small or mid-sized company, a hands-on owner or key executive is in a much better position to know employees well, simply because there are fewer of them. If you walk the floor and talk to your employees, you not only know better what's going on, you also know who the top performers are, as well as your