From Day One: Success Secrets for Starting Your Career

Chapter 8. The First-Time Manager

When you become a new manager, the skills that got you there are not what will keep you successful.

You’ve been out of college for a few years and, after proving what you can do on the job, you’ve been promoted to become a team leader or manage a department. At this moment in your career, you’re undergoing an important shift as you take on your first experience of managing and leading others.

As a new manager, many of the skills that made you successful in the past (and that may have been the reason you were promoted to manager) are no longer critical for you. Now, your success as a manager will become dependent on how well your team performs. Their skills and abilities to do the job will be more important than ...