by Art Petty | Sep 11, 2017 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
The rude awakening for many first-time managers is the reality that they are now actually responsible for the outcomes of others. It’s a far cry from the life of an individual contributor when the only difficult person you had to deal with was staring back at you in...
by Art Petty | Sep 8, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, First Time Manager Series
I still recall my not so glorious introduction to managing. If it weren’t for a great mentor, I might have found myself on the wrong end of an insurrection from my group members. It turns out, this work of managing is a lot more challenging than most of us anticipate....
by Art Petty | Aug 28, 2017 | First Time Manager Series, Leadership
My own challenging first-time management experience aside, I’ve worked with hundreds of first-time managers in a variety of programs, and there’s just no way to sugarcoat reality for this job. Surviving the early phase is a bit like what it must feel like to scale...
by Art Petty | Jun 27, 2017 | First Time Manager Series
While your promotion to manager places some distance between you and your former team members, it opens up an entirely new and potentially valuable network of peers in other front-line management roles. One of your early tasks as a manager is to begin cultivating...
by Art Petty | May 10, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, First Time Manager Series
There are few transitions in a person’s career more challenging than moving from contributor or maker to manager. It’s clumsy, awkward, a little frightening and filled with both opportunities to grow and ways to misstep. And the burnout rate of first-time managers is...
