10 Challenges That Every First-Time Manager Will Face
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The document outlines ten common challenges faced by first-time managers, including setting clear goals, managing time, and communicating effectively. It emphasizes the importance of changing one's mindset from an employee focus to a manager focus and suggests various strategies for overcoming these challenges. Tips include seeking mentorship, conducting one-on-ones with team members, and utilizing structured hiring practices.
10 Challenges That Every First-Time Manager Will Face
- 2. You recently got hired or promoted and you’re in a new role. How exciting! It’s an exciting new challenge, but there will be struggles, whether you like it or not.
- 3. The key more than anything is to change your mindset and get into a new way of approaching work. Here are 10 challenges that every new manager (including you) will face.
- 4. 1 Failure To Set Clear Goals And Expectations Lack of clarity on the job causes confusion between employees and their manager, leading to disappointment on both sides.
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- 6. Poor Time Management In addition to managing your own tasks, you have to manage an entire team, putting out fires and dealing with their problems.
- 7. Block time off on your own calendar. Make it clear to employees that there are certain times that are only for you. TIP
- 8. Unclear Or Inconsistent Communication Employees need to know that they can trust what you’re saying to be true.
- 9. Work on your messaging, make it as crystal clear as possible. TIP
- 10. Pressure To Perform You were just given an incredible opportunity and now you want to show that you were worth it.
- 11. Just relax. Rome wasn’t built in a day. TIP
- 12. Shifting From Coworker To Boss Picture this – you’re close with your coworkers and suddenly you’re promoted to being their manager, you’re no longer “one of them.”
- 13. You need to learn how to separate work from friendship. There’s a time and place for both. TIP
- 14. Hiring Hiring is tough. Hiring is especially tough for new managers that have never done this before.
- 15. Use a structured interview, where candidates are asked the same set of questions with specific ways of evaluating the responses. TIP
- 16. Firing Firing is a tough thing to do for anyone. It’s a very sensitive issue that takes a lot of emotion.
- 17. Try your best to make it a team decision. If you meet with your team regularly one-on-one, you’ll be able to get a sense of who works well and who doesn’t. TIP
- 18. Solving Other People’s Problems You’re part manager, part psychologist. Inevitably, you’ll start receiving complaints from employees and start having to deal with their problems.
- 19. Attack any issue early on before it becomes a serious problem. Monthly one-on-ones can be a great way to make sure a problem doesn’t last for too long. TIP
- 20. Getting The Team To Be Productive Everyone is different, requires different levels of attention, and works in different ways.
- 21. Create an environment that’s good for everyone. Some people like working later, some earlier, some people like being told what to do, some people like being left alone. TIP
- 22. Not Asking For Help Many first-time managers will want to prove that they don’t need any help – big mistake.
- 23. Don’t be shy to ask around for help. Do whatever it takes to make you and your team the best! TIP
- 24. Most of these challenges are internal, meaning only you can fix them.
- 25. ENGAGE YOUR TEAM View the State of Employee Engagement, a real-time report with tons of helpful tips for managers to engage their teams. See The Live Report
- 26. TIPSTO ENSURE SUCCESS AS A NEW MANAGER
- 27. CHANGE YOUR FOCUS 1 In your old role as an employee, your number one focus was on accomplishing your tasks. Now, your number one focus is on helping others accomplish their tasks.
- 28. LEARN A LOT - Use monthly one-on-ones to learn more about your team - Go to networking events to learn more about your job and connect with others - Be active in Linkedin groups to learn more about your industry. 2
- 29. TAKE YOUR TIME Take the time to fully understand the dynamics of the team. Be patient, you’ll get there eventually. 3
- 30. FIND A MENTOR Find someone who’s been there before and pick their brain. 4
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