When you were first promoted into a 'people manager' role did you know how to manage let alone lead team members? I will admit I sure didn't. I was so wrapped up in the tasks of the day and the job that it took a while to learn how to be a good people manager and then a leader.
Often, if not always, individuals are promoted and never given those skills. Unfortunately they (we) get stuck in doing things the same way we did when we got promoted and no-one told us differently. THEN we started getting feedback and it was all about our LACK of leadership.
Why, well we were trained on the functions of the job, but not the people stuff. Today on the 394th episode of #YourMorningCommute I discuss this and of course give you some tips.
Don't be that manager that promotes others into management without guiding them on real leadership. Don't, please don't.
