You have just been promoted above your peers at work and now you are their boss with authority to assign duties and decide their future, what do you do? This is something that does happen. You have colleagues and friends in the work place and suddenly you are promoted above them and yet you want to run your new role as best as you can.
Here are some ways to deal with such worries.
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10. Facial Interaction – Always show your self to be glad at what staffs are doing facially. The expression you give is an encouragement on their behalf that you are pleased with the level of their handling work. Smile when need requires it and laugh as well you don’t want to be a hard-faced person who seem to bring all you worries from home to the work place. When displeased with something address it with a short frown, three seconds at best and smile even when you know you are under pressure. Its best to display the same affection you had before taking the new role, just as a way to ensure that not has really changed.
9. Job Duties – You can’t say no one likes too much work. If you run your business no amount of work is too much because all you want to see is your business growing and no company standing on a good foundation today works less than its peers. Addressing the right questions, advertising, meetings among others is a good way to be sure of growth. Allocate tasks equally as you see fit and not less than what you should be giving all because you don’t to be seen as over doing you role.
8. Strictness – Be strict just as any boss would, but make sure it’s when the need requires it. You don’t want to be known as just strict boss without focus. Strict ways that leads to productivity is the best, besides you know most of the staff but you have to put that aside so as not to affect your own progress.
7. References – it’s always good to make references to the good and the bad in any business if you want to grow. Don’t criticize in the presence of other staff, make it individual and neither should you praise in everyone’s presence, because you may think that will encourage them to step up their work but it will in fact dent their moral and when their moral has been dented it spills on you. Because we are talking from the aspects of know them, there will be some attributes you know about them in the past, ensure you keep it past and start afresh.
6. Conservative – The new job you have taken is a role and there has been certain ways that role has been run, keep it as you inherited it and only change it for something better to improve the efficiency and the team around you. You growth is their growth and their growth is the company’s growth.
5. Lunch Buddies – Before you took up the new position some of them may have been people you went to lunch with from time to time or the occasional office parties or just a drink or two on a Friday afternoon and you may know what sort of topics you talk about, from the lazy boss to the one who’s having an affair. These are the kinds of things that may be said behind you now that it’s your turn especially if you are the paranoid type.
4. Honesty – When something is not working in the office or the team you’re working with, it may even be the pace at which work is done you are not happy with or the too much cigarettes breaks some staffs are taking, come clean about it and I reckon you must know what the rules are and a honest boss is highly regarded, believe it or not.
3. Allocation – Something I learned a while ago is that my boss once in a while will have a meeting with one of his staff and discuss duties to be done in the workplace and will tell that staff to repeat the same thing to each one allocating duties and that way of doing thing was been done by another staff at another time thereby given everyone a chance.
2. Rotation – Unpredictability is good if it works. In the workplace staffs tend to get bored doing the same thing over and over again for weeks and even months, mentally not everyone can cope with it. Switch roles in the office from time to time, probably on a weekly basis to just give staff work experience in different roles after all it will be very beneficial to them in the future.
1. Currency or Time management– Want to know how competent your staff are, that will depend on the time frame you give them to work within and how much they can deliver. I like to give people work on the first day of work and say to them that I will be seeing their completed work just after lunch on last working day and will compare it to one another as we discuss the level of pace. Within that time frame the will be the odd one or two who will complete before that time frame ends and want more work to do and their will be those that ensure they finish at the time you gave them. You know that at the end of the day a competent work is the best though finishing on time is a very good attribute.
