Help! I’m a New Leader: Fundamentals for Success

Imagine that you’ve just been promoted to lead your first team. Some of you will have to reach back in your memory bank to think about this. Others are looking forward to that moment, with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. Because until you sit in that chair, you don’t quite know what it’s going to be like.

I recently received a call from a friend, we’ll call her Felicia. She’s a high performer, used to being a senior level individual contributor providing critical information, and collaborating with a number of coworkers. She’s self-motivated, well networked, and a quick study. But when she received the news of being moved to a manager track where she will lead a team, she suddenly realized that she didn’t know as much as she thought she did about how to effectively do this. (more…)