To determine whether you’ve made the wrong decision and to ensure that you don’t promote the wrong person next time, ask yourself these questions:

While friends and other employees you like could very well be qualified for the job, you may be overlooking inadequacies in their skill sets or ignoring other options because of your own preferences. Consider your motivations for promoting an employee when deciding who should fill a new role or replace someone who’s moving on.

Your personal preferences may not be the only biases in play,according to a recent Gallup survey, as explained by Corter.com.While business can require some strategy, you don’t want your maneuvering to result in employees in the wrong positions.

Fast Company warns that employers often “base hiring and promotion decisions on an employee’s past experience, and then reward them by giving them an entirely different role. According to the research, at least 80% of the time this methodology backfires.” Employees need to be provided ways of moving up that work with their abilities rather than being offered promotions for the sake of promotions.

According to Inc.com, you may find yourself regretting your decision if you hire and promote based on skill and ignore attitude problems or other problematic behaviour. When it comes to management positions, you’re going to need someone who is open to different personalities and ideas.

While your editor or tech guy can afford to be a little antisocial or picky about their work hours (though it’s ideal if they aren’t, and you need to be sure of how much you can compromise), a manager needs to be willing and able to work with others and the schedule you’ve set.

Ultimately, you need to know your employees and their skills well in order to make the right promotion decisions. Grapevine Evaluations can help you learn more about how well your employees are working through our online 360-degree feedback software tool.

In huge organizations, some lazy employees might take credit for work that they didn’t do. In extreme cases, such employees can get promoted instead of the person who’s actually doing all the work. In such a case, an employee evaluation tool can help you separate the good employees from the bad ones. At Grapevine Evaluations, our software is the go-to tool for companies such as Pandora Radio and Thompson Reuters. If you think that a 360 degree evaluation tool can help your company, please request a demo with us today!