You've done it. The higher ups have recognized your talent and rewarded your hard work by promoting you to a management position. While you deserve to pat yourself on the back for the achievement, you are smart enough to know that you can't just sit back and relax. You want to continually evolve and become a great manager. To do so, you need to follow some guidelines.
Employee Relations
First, feel free to let your employees do their work without micromanaging.
"Don't assume that you do or have to know everything," says Mary Diebold, division director of Robert Half Management Resources in Minneapolis. "Be open minded, willing to listen and leverage the knowledge of your employees."
By the same token, workers must be held accountable.
"Employees want to feel that their work and tasks are important," says Diebold. "If you tell employees to do something or that you expect something from them, yet you don't follow up and hold them accountable, that task starts to lose value and sense of importance to employees."
Scott Gunderson, professor and co-chair of business at Dakota County Technical College, notes that a manager needs to know the staff's capabilities.
"Before delegating, you need to know the skills and capabilities of your employees," says Gunderson. "Managers who get to know and trust their people will be much more effective."
