Moving from staff into management for the first time is excitingbut it can also be scarey.
Theres so much you dont know. Somehow managing looked so easy from the outside, but now you actually have to do it, you realize its more complicated than you thought. Before, you had certain tasks to accomplish and you knew you had the skills to do them. You still have responsibility for those tasks, but now you have to see that the work is done effectively by other people. Thats a whole new task in itself, and youre not sure youre up to the job.
You also find that its hard to concentrate on the planning that is such an important part of managing, because emergencies large and small seem to arise all the time and people keep running to you to resolve them. The expression When youre up to your neck in alligators, its hard to remember you were trying to drain the swamp might have been written for new managers!
In these early days, you must learn not to be too hard on yourself. Management skills are not built into our human DNAwe have to learn them as we go. Promise yourself youll learn at least one management lesson every day. Set aside a few moments at the end of each...
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