3 Ways to Take the Fear Out of Your New Management Role

Receiving a promotion can be an exciting moment in your career. After working hard for years and feeling that you deserved more responsibility, you have moved into a management role either with your current company or at a new company.

Now comes the scary part. With that added responsibility comes expectations from executives for you to run the department in an efficient manner. On top of that pressure from above, you also have to earn the respect of the people you are managing and leading. If it’s at the same company, you are no longer their peer. If it’s at a new company, the employees may be skeptical of the new manager.

Here are three tips to help you settle into your new role and earn the respect of your new employees as well as the company’s executive team.

1. Create an Awesome Team Atmosphere

While you are the manager, your employees want to feel as if they have input in future decisions as well as with the day-to-day functions of the team. Rely on the strengths of your employees and set them up for success.

As everyone works toward achieving the company’s and department’s goals, highlight the people who produce awesome accomplishments. If your team meets a short-term objective for one of the company’s main goals of the year, talk about that success in your next meeting. During that same meeting, if one or more of your employees really stood out, share those accomplishments in front of the team.

Being able to create an atmosphere where everyone wants to be successful and works toward one common goal is hard, but it can be accomplished. Highlight their accomplishments. Explain why decisions are made from the executives. Take your team’s feedback and share it with the appropriate leaders at the appropriate time. They will appreciate your honesty and willingness to stand up for them.

2. You’re Going to Be Unpopular at Times

The same people who used to be your lunch buddy could now be the people you have to reprimand about something they did wrong or hold them accountable for not meeting a deadline. It might not be enjoyable but over time, if you are fair and find the right balance, then your employees will understand.

The team atmosphere you are working to create will grow if everyone is held accountable. Your employees want the company to be successful because that means they will be successful. Everyone won’t like you all of the time, but handling those tough situations in the appropriate manner will be beneficial in the long run.

At the meetings where you are highlighting accomplishments, don’t single out individual employees for something negative. Have those discussions in a private setting. If you need to talk about it in front of the group, craft your message carefully and try to share the information in a general manner that everyone can learn from.

3. Take Pride in Your Employees’ Careers

Managers can become afraid that employees who appear smarter than them will take their job. In the right organization, that is hardly the case.

Cultivate a team that takes pride in the organization’s success but also in their own development. Provide them opportunities to utilize their strengths and undertake the right projects. If your employees are developing new products, improving services and getting more efficient, everyone will notice. Not only will they be successful but your manager will see you as being the right leader for your team. You might not know the exact details of how your team is executing a new technique, but you can share with the company that your department has grown 15 percent in the past three months because of your employees’ efforts.

Meet with your employees continually to find out their passions. Learn what they want to pursue. Help them as much as possible and the success will follow.

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With these simple tips, your new manager career can get off to the right start. Your team will appreciate you and your career will benefit. If you are ready to take the next step in your property management career, contact the property management experts at NPM Staffing!

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