#New managers

[blogfocusu]

Leadership Development for New Managers: 10 Key Challenges

1. Team handling

When the promotion happens from within the team, there’s a sudden shift in the dynamics of the team. This may lead to some tension and resentment.

In such a case, it is important for the newly appointed manager to remember that their success depends on the success of the team. Instead of being unreachable, work to build confidence among your team members. Create a healthy boundary even as you continue to work as an integral part of the team and help your team accomplish the required tasks.

2. Time management

As a manager, you play a dual role. You have to accomplish your own tasks, while also helping your team members in their tasks.

It is important to prioritise your team because if your team wins, you win. However, that doesn’t mean you can slack off in your individual role. They key is in planning your day out Ina dance. Make a robust plan that allows you to balance your time and energy well.

3. Team productivity

As a manager, you are responsible for the productivity of your team. A challenge of this manner requires you to understand the psychology of each individual team member. Some people lead with the stick, while others do so with the carrot.

Have one-on-one meetings with each team member to understand their needs better, and act accordingly. It is equally important to maintain transparency within the team. If any concerns arise, discuss them openly and pro-actively.

4. Clear communication

As their manager, it is important for you to maintain efficient channels of communication with your team. Be direct, patient, and transparent with them. Work to create an open environment where ideas and questions are welcomed. Also, work on being a good listener.

5. Delegation

As a first-time manager, delegation is yet another skill that needs to be mastered. It can be hard, I initially, to let go of the control you have over all your tasks. This rings true especially in the case of driven professionals who got their promotion by excelling at all their tasks.

As a leader, it is your responsibility to guide your team members and share responsibilities with them. This will not only help build better inter-personal relationships but add to your productivity. Effective delegation can help build trust and enable overall team, growth.

Give team members sufficient authority, responsibilities, and resources based on their skill levels and experience; while, still keeping an eye out for any help or guidance they might need. This will help them feel confident and competent in their jobs.

6. Empowering your team

A common managerial trap that most first time mangers give into, is the temptation to jump in and micro-manage every single team member’s actions.

When faced with questions by your team members, encouraging them to figure out the answers for themselves. Your job is to guide them, and help them through the process, even as they solve the riddle on their own.

Furthermore, make sure to give them clear goals and hold the bar for quality where it’s needed. But, never do the work for them. This will allow you to build a team of high performing ‘doers.’

7. Effective listening

Your role as the manager isn’t just to drive your team towards their goals. But, rather, enable them to feel confident and safe in their individual roles. In this respect, effective listening in one skill that can help make a huge difference.

Engage your team in heartfelt conversations, often. When you build a safe space for your team members to share their problems and ask questions, you allow for impactful growth. Giving a person your full attention will not only make them feel valued, but also allow you to help them in the best way possible.

Remember, the strength of the wolf is the pack. A leader is only as effective as their team.

8. Walk the talk

Doing what you say you will, is an important leadership trait. Thus, it is important that you don’t over commit and under deliver.

Only when you strive to hold yourself accountable to your words, can you do the same for your team. Regardless of the nature of the obstacle, as a leader you need to keep trying. Your actions will set the path for the rest of your team. People are more easily inspired by their manger’s actions than they are, by mere words.

9. Be Vulnerable

One of the biggest misconceptions about any leadership position is perhaps the idea that leaders have to be infallible. Often times, new managers can get overwhelmed with the new set of responsibilities bestowed upon them. However, due to the fear of being ridiculed or appearing non-competent, they shy away from talking about their problems.

However, it is important for a manager to create and enable an open environment. A safe space for problems to be brought forward will help the team tackle them better. It will also help establish effective inter-personal bonds between the leader and their teams. A vulnerable man aged, open to ideas and discussion can set the tone for positive conversations and constructive feed-forward.

10. Constructive Feedback

As a manager, it is your job to call out your team members on their mistakes. However, this doesn’t come naturally to everyone. New Manager, especially find themselves struggling with giving effective and constructive feedback.

They key is to focus on the results, and avoid the blame game. You feedback should aim at helping your team member do their jobs better. Asking if they require any help often is considered an important part of any constructive feedback. Maintaining an open line of communication will help you imitate difficult conversations with much more ease.

[dougthorpe-com]

Are You Managing Your World or Is Your World Managing You?

With so many of us confined to limited movement during the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve been touching base (OK touching is a bad word) with colleagues, clients and close friends. The gist of the discussions have to do with “what do we do now?” An old title from my archives came to mind. I thought I’d dust it off and share. I hope this thought will be helpful to you as you figure out your “new…

[zephyrine-gale]

lost 50/50? skill issue

[some-programming-pearls]

If You’re a New Manager? Read These 3 Books

Before you create a new process or system, dive into these books and build a stronger team. I have a general dislike for most of the online recipes my wife sends me. Why? Because you have to scroll through pages of the authors’ personal stories about grandma’s experience baking cookies in the frozen corners of Middle Earth when all you want to know is how many cups of sugar are necessary. I…

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[bluerosefox]

Always Favors You

Another Sibling Danny and Jason idea!!

"Are you Jason Peter Todd?!" demanded a deep and commanding tone from the strange glowing being in front of them.

All the Bats stiffened and tensed, no doubt gearing up for a fight against the being that somehow knew Red Hood's full name.

Jason, Red Hood, decided to put on a brave front despite no doubt cursing in his head and wondering how the heck did this thing know his full freaking name.

"Whose asking." he snarled out, his hands twitching for his gun when the huge glowing knight with purple flames coming out of his helmet and cape, who was riding on a nightmare looking horse while they all had been in the cave going over tonight's patrol.

The Knight didn't seemed bothered by his response nor did he even seem to care or flinch when Batman made his own demand on 'Why was he there and who was he' or when Damian unsheathed his sword and pointed it towards him. Instead the strange glowing Knight reached to it side and pulled out... A glowing scroll? Huh. (Also he completely unnerved everyone in the room when the Knight didn't even react when Batman had tossed a Baterang when he reached for his side)

The Knight opened the scroll and spoke clearly with purpose.

"Jason Peter Todd,

You are hereby invited as a special guest of honor to the crowning of our future King of the Infinite Realms.

Daniel Phantom, once Daniel Jackson Fenton, and once Daniel Austen Todd.

Prince of the Infinite Realms, the Keeper of Balance, The Peacekeeping Halfa, the Defeater of the Tyrant King Pariah Dark, The Great One, Youngest of the Ancients, Ancient of Space, The Bridge between Life and Death.

You, the half-brother of our King, have been given the highest of honors for your past actions and will be given housing and food in the Realms and Phantom's Keep, for the week long event. Personal servants and attendants will be at your disposal and a seamstress will be on hand to tailor make your attire for the Coronation.

Signed: Clockwork. Ancient of Time. Watcher of the Infinite Timeline. Kronos. Mentor and Adviser.

PS: I shall have Fright Knight ("Me" the Knight bluntly said for a second) leave this scroll along with a personal one for you from Daniel to read over and once you make up your mind sign the bottom of the scroll.

I do hope in time you will pick the right choice Jason Todd, we of the Infinite Realms would like to reward you for your actions. After all, if you hadn't gotten young Daniel away from your father that night all those years ago, we would never had gained our Prince nor be free from our once Tyrant King.

Ah, one more thing.

The Infinite Realms will always favor you Jason."

Jason felt like he couldn't breath as Fright Knight? Rolled up the scroll, pulled a letter from his side, and held out the two items for him to take.

[stil-lindigo]

You are not childish for wishing the world was better than it is. We were owed that by the people who knew better before us, just like we too will owe the people who’ll come after us. But defeatism does nothing. It puts nothing on the plate you’ll hand to your child, your friend, your lover. You may never live to see the world become as good as it should, but that should never stop you from trying to improve it anyway.

[sanctus-ingenium]

fumes

[new-management-murder-drones-au]

N is finally done, gangs all here, now I sleep

[seventh-district]

Making Incorrect H:SR Quotes Until I Run Out of (hopefully) Original Ideas - Pt. 2

[Pt. 1] [Pt. 3] [Pt. 4] [Pt. 5] [Pt. 6]

[machinerot]

[dougthorpe-com]

Leading Change: An Old Model Reveals New Ideas

Business leaders know the challenge it can be to lead change. When there is a new announcement about something changing, you can often hear the groans that arise. Work teams of all kinds resist change. Understanding ways to overcome the resistance can be a leader’ s best answer in times of change. As I’ve mentioned before, managing change can be very darn difficult. Within the body of change…

[chatlote]

Just because you don't love yourself it doesn't mean I will stop loving you.

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

the thing is that when you look deep enough, Klingons and Klingon society is actually pretty well developed by Star Trek standards. we know the ideals of their society and the way their ideals are corrupted by classism and archaic tradition. we see how "warrior" and "honor" are complex terms that involve more than just warfare and fighting. but we also see Klingon scientists and lawyers who are proud of their work but are pushed aside for not living up to their society's standards. we see how their political relations change over time and how strategic alliances are formed and dissolved. we know their marriage customs and holidays and mythology and history. we see a variety of Klingon characters with varying degrees of attachment to their species and culture. we see how they're stereotyped and discriminated against in the Federation for being "too alien" when the Federation is supposed to be accepting of differences. we have an entire real, usable language for Kahless's sake.

the thing is also that 90% of Klingon stories choose to ignore all this complexity in favor of bioessentialism and racist takes on "warrior society".

[bluerosefox]

Striking of the Clock

BrainDead or DeadTired idea.

During Tim's BruceQuest he uncovers hidden texts/tombs of a being that controls and watches over the Time Stream and Tim knows this being will have to be his best bet of finding Bruce while also trying to figure out on his own how to get Bruce out of the Time Stream as well.

However the being doesn't have a summoning sigil due to being an Ancient.

He does find the sigil for the Ghost King however, a being that borderlines into Ancients power territory and could in theory grant Tim an audience with the Time being if Tim plays his cards right.

In the end, Tim decides it was worth a shot. He convinces Ra's to 'help' him summon the Ghost King. Ra's wanting to see if such a being could be real and to see how far Tim is willing to go to bring Bruce back, allows League resources to be used.

It takes a few weeks, with Tim also making plans to undermine not just the Council of Spiders but Ra's as well, but eventually the time to summon the Ghost King comes.

Tim honestly was expecting the large eldritch like being that showed up, he just wasn't expecting the being to be basically a formed galaxy mixed with ice and the northern lights itself.

He also really wasn't expecting when he negotiated a deal with the Ghost King, and taken into a place called the Infinite Realms when they shook hands (Tam and Prue is also taken with him, he refused to leave them with Ra's), for the being to shrink down and turn into a white haired, green eyed teen around his age who starts flirting at him.

Nor was he expecting for another being, one that apparently is able to shift aging forms, and a grandfather clock in its chest to appear next to the teen and bonk the white haired teen with a staff and tell him to stop flirting with his future new apprentice....

Wait what?

-x-x-

Danny is rarely, very rarely summoned since taking the mantle of Ghost King. Due to being a new Ancient most old sigils that was once connected to Phantom (mostly teens from Amity tired summoning him a couple of times) no longer worked and the only ones that did were the ones he gave to his friends and family or the Ghost King ones (but again rare due to how rare texts/tombs to the Ghost King is written down)

So when he felt the pull of a summoning he made sure to go in his eldritch form, mostly to see if he could scare them or at least intimidate.

Honestly he was expecting the cult, given the fact they summoned a being known as the (freaking) Ghost King, maybe not them being assassins/ninjas but still a cult.

He wasn't expecting the cute, same age as him too, guy in the room.

(CW totally paused time for a second, gave Danny a file on who and why he was summoned, discussed getting Tim Drake out of Ra's hands (and maybe allowing CW to finally have his own future apprentice because Tim is a smarty smart whose been slowly able to figure out the freaking Time Stream itself.), and then started the timeline again)

Danny decided, after striking a deal, that since he's going to be working with Tim, aka Red Robin (who Danny found out used to be Robin! From Gotham), from now on he might as well shoot his shot and flirt with him and-

"OUCH, CW REALLY?!"

"Stop flirting with my new apprentice for now My King, we have work to do."