Sharing leadership talent across a team or an organization is a foreign idea in many workplaces. Leaders rely on star performers to achieve the tasks and projects critical to success. The idea of willingly allowing these team members to work elsewhere within the team or organization seems like a surefire way of undermining results. As a result, leaders commonly protect their high performers and broach no conversation about sharing their skills anywhere else.
My job rotation experience came in an organization during and throughout my first 6 months with the company. I spent a month and a half of so on every team, learning the ropes of every team in the organization. It was a good experience, but made me realize how difficult it would be to do it after I was already in the organization for a couple years. Looking back it was almost the ONLY time I could have done it that way. 60 people in the company... I was the only person going thru this kind of on-boarding. Seems almost too hard for multiple of us to have that experience at the exact same time unless it was coordinated as a temporary team member swap.
My job rotation experience came in an organization during and throughout my first 6 months with the company. I spent a month and a half of so on every team, learning the ropes of every team in the organization. It was a good experience, but made me realize how difficult it would be to do it after I was already in the organization for a couple years. Looking back it was almost the ONLY time I could have done it that way. 60 people in the company... I was the only person going thru this kind of on-boarding. Seems almost too hard for multiple of us to have that experience at the exact same time unless it was coordinated as a temporary team member swap.
Would love to hear the highs and lows of personal experiences of job rotations here.