6 Tips for First Time Managers
This week's post comes from the blog of Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership: Congratulations! They’ve made you a manager of other people. Now what? Maybe you’ve had bad managers in the past and think that this is your chance to do it right. The jump from being an individual contributor to first-time manager is a dramatic and challenging one. It requires you completely change the way you see your role and how you produce results. You may have been a fantastic worker at your job. Does that mean you’ll be a fantastic manager? Not necessarily. Hopefully these tips will get you off on the right foot. Approach your new role with humility While you might THINK you know what a good manager should do, it’s really not as easy as it might look. Understand that you’re going to make mistakes. You’ll earn the respect of your team when you own up to your mistakes and ask for help now and then. Change your focus. You might have been a superstar as an individual co...