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5 Essential New Manager Survival Tips

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To relieve some of that pressure, and to help you get off to a strong start with your team, here are five new manager survival tips you can put into practice today. You are modeling leadership to them. Don’t believe the organization chart. Start with the idea that the organization chart is probably inaccurate.

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6 Steps You Should Take Immediately as a New Manager

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They made you a new manager. Whatever you did to become a new manager is probably not enough to help you be successful there. In this post I’ll give you six things to focus on in your first week as a new manager so you can get started on the right foot. Steps for the New Manager – The Takeaway. Meet with the Boss.

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Leader Isolation: 6 Ways to Conquer Loneliness at the Top

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Leadership can bring with it a sense of isolation. This can be particularly true of new leaders and those chosen from among a peer group to take on a formal leadership position. Sometimes leader isolation can come from a sense of getting stuck between the competing demands of higher management and the needs of your team.

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Book Notes – Blue Ocean Strategy: How Leaders Drive Change

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Leadership is about influencing people in a specific direction, but sometimes that direction needs to change. Read on, if you are interested in driving change in your organization. [In He invited the General Manager to ride with him to see his district. It only took two hours, and the Manager had seen enough.

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Waiting for the Light to Change

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Traffic signals organize and coordinate the flow of traffic. Organizations have managers and supervisors. Are you waiting for permission to proceed? They keep things safe and orderly. We wait for the green light to proceed. They direct the traffic too. Most people wait to be told what to do, then do it. But leaders don’t wait.

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Book Notes: It Worked for Me

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With his 35 years as a leader in the Army, including time as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his four years as the US Secretary of State, he knows a thing or two about leadership in the real world. So when problems arise, embrace them as opportunities to strengthen your leadership. Solve problems, don’t manage them.

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Pulling Together: What it Takes to Build Group Cohesion

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Each team rode in its own bus, established its own leadership, designed its own flag, and chose its own name. It took a little while, but working together they managed to get the valve unstuck. Then ask yourself this question: Is your organization set up to build group cohesion or foster faction? Click To Tweet.

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