Readiness

Where the standard develops it

• PL-5Career development and growth pathsOne-on-ones, promotions, the Staff+ track, and the IC/manager choice.
• PL-6Leading through leadersSelecting, developing, and holding accountable the managers who report to you.

Related terms

Key-person risk

Critical capability, context or ownership concentrated in one person, so that the organisation is destabilised when they leave or are courted.

One-on-one

The recurring, protected meeting between a manager and a report.

Succession

A ready or nearly ready successor for every key role, the executive's own included, treated as an explicit expectation of senior roles and not as a personal virtue.

Calibration

Aligning evaluation standards across interviewers, managers or organisations so that the same capability or performance earns the same judgment.

Disengagement signals

Withdrawal, cynicism and ideas that stop coming.

Glue work

The coordinating, documenting and unblocking work that holds a team together and rarely shows up in the artifacts a promotion process values.

Growth ladder

An explicit description of what each level looks like for each competency, so that a promotion is judged against a shared description rather than against how assertive a manager is.

Judgment debrief

The form a one-on-one with a manager takes.