Newsletter 9 - The transition to manager - what does it take?
What does it really mean being a manager and how do you know you're doing it well?
Moving from being a practitioner, specialist, team member - whatever you
were doing before
you became a manager - means focusing differently. Instead of doing the
work, your main
task is to see that others do the work.
This means knowing what the work is, what the desired outcomes are, knowing what your team need in order to deliver and putting that in place. It's a different way of thinking with new priorities.
What does it mean for you?
It means that you are working to a different agenda: or rather agendas.
Your own manager
will have expectations of you in the new role, which may be different from
the expectations
of the people you manage. One of your tasks is to understand and
manage all these
expectations.
As well as this, new managers find that they need to improve their understanding of people, their motivations, personalities and ways of relating.
The transition
to management generally pushes you into understanding yourself better,
and learning how to cope with the stress of being expected to perform.
August 2009
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