What You Need to Know to Be a More Inclusive Bilingual Workforce, With Daniel Frutiger
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6 min readJan 9, 2020
Unfortunately, in many cases we have employers where their idea of a succession plan is taking someone who is a good salesperson and making them a manager or a sales manager. Just because someone is a great performer, doesn’t mean that qualifies them to be a leader. If you’re overseeing one person or 100 people, you have the opportunity to be a leader and influence people. A manager is driven by data or tasks. They are driven to accomplish sales numbers or getting projects completed, but people fall down the line in terms of priority. A leader is the exact opposite and they’re motivated by encouraging people. Then the performance follows. Being a leader and influencing people helps them to outperform anyone who is driven just by task.
