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Five Lessons I Learned in My First Year of Being a New Manager
You can’t lead others if you can’t lead yourself and you can’t pour from an empty cup
About a year ago, I was promoted to a managerial role at my company. I’ve been working here for a little over four years now and this is the second time I’ve been promoted since I started.
This promotion, however, was a little more exciting since it was the first time in my ten years out of college where I actually had someone reporting to me. Needless to say, this was a pretty huge milestone in my career.
After essentially being in the same role for the majority of my career, it was exciting to finally be able to into a leadership role and have a team of my own. Of course, that didn’t come without a great deal of trial and error, many mistakes I made along the way, and brand new experiences.
But, like anything in life, doing something new for the first time can always be a little scary, but you always find a way to figure it out as you go. So, for anyone who’s heading in this same direction and becoming a manager for the first time, here a few big lessons I learned in my first year.
