Thus, after several years of proof yourself, your company finally realized its potential as a future leader. The opportunity for promotion, however, involves risk. You made a number of colleagues in recent years and now you have to manage. I was recently reminded of this dilemma when working with a leader who was recently promoted by a single factor as a programmer responsible for managing a team of eight technicians. She was struggling with the transition manager’s friend for three of its employees were friends.
How to iterate and manager at the same time not lose your friends? Here are seven tips on how this transitions a success:
1. announced after your promotion, planning time with each of your friends at work and an overview of future directions of your relationship with them. You’ll be treated in the workplace. Define what needs to change in your relationship with them and what is not changing.
Some of these changes should include: no coffee breaks or lunch with friends, at least to work with other team members are included. And you ask for feedback from you as a leader, not as a friend.
Things should remain the same: respect for each other and what you bring to the team, and concern for others as an employee and a friend.
2. Organize a meeting with your new team and be transparent and honest about your friendships with colleagues. Share with the team that your work has to understand their relationship with friends at work is changing and they like the rest of the team members are treated
3. It will be important to demonstrate fairness and equality for everyone, whether you are reporting. All policies and procedures, and labor standards are respected by all employees and the consequences of non-compliance are the same for everyone. Be careful with this and do not compensate for the interpretation of the guidelines more strictly to your friends and other members of your team. This can leave your friends or to request a transfer lead.
4. There are also situations such as new policies and guidelines, which will be frustrating for you in your new role. You should not share your frustrations with your friend used. Your company has seen potential in you as leaders and not complaining to the employees on company policy or direction. Leaders want to bring their concerns to their managers in communicating the potential impact of changes could have for the company.
5. Confidential business situations must remain confidential, even if its impact on your friends at work. The ability to keep confidences is important to build trust and respect in an organization. How do you think the team will show you if you violate the trade secret? This will certainly not be comfortable with him to bring their own situations confidential to you in fear that you share with others.
6. Pay attention to your behavior in social situations where other people are watching your behavior. Remember, you are no longer the same, but a model. You are now a leader and will be important in the presence of management, to your success.
7. Ask for feedback from your friends on your abilities as a leader. The questions you should ask them should be based on your conduct as a manager, such as communication, equity, motivation, praise and recognition, listening, etc.
all these steps requires great communication skills. Concentrate your efforts on honing your skills in the fields of music, interviews and stories. All these checks must be completed and sent in time to be effective, especially in the management of Friends for a leader.
