How To Be A New, Empowering, Successful, Confident, Manager

How To Be A New Empowering, Successful, Confident, Manager. If you have just been elevated to a management role for the first time, congratulations. It’s a recognition that your employer and company see you as a valuable asset and you have potential.

More than likely you have come from a technical role working solo or in a small team. You were obviously excelling in your previous position to be considered and awarded the new management role.

Your manager was probably thinking that you were successful in your technical role so therefore you will also be successful and more valuable in your new management role.

This is very logical thinking and makes sense. I see the same thinking behaviour with the various corporate client with whom I work.

Do you think that just because the employee was successful in his technical role he will be automatically successful in his management role?

Well, that depends on a number of factors. Let’s take a look at some of them.

Success in a Technical Role

When we are working in a technical role it requires a certain IQ, certain skills and capabilities, and specific knowledge, to achieve our results.

Now when I say technical role I’m broadly speaking and it can be any position where we have a specified JD, we more or less work on our own but we still need to interact with our fellow colleagues to get our job done.

We need to have:

• Technical skill
• Specialised Knowledge
• Skills & Capabilities
• Experience
• Track record
• Results

Our results are more aligned with our specialised skills and capabilities to get the job done in an efficient, effective and timely manner. Our success is measured by the above bullet points but not limited to them.

Success in a Management Role

Now that we have been successful in our technical role we have been promoted to a management role. This is a wonderful thing to be promoted in the company.

In many cases, the specialised knowledge, skills and capabilities that was the source of our success in the technical role, will now become our liability.

We will need to use a different set of skills and capabilities in our new role as managers if we want to be successful in this new management role.

Managers are responsible for running a team, managing people, getting results from the team and creating cohesiveness.

The skills required for management positions are emotional intelligence (EQ) skills.

We need to be able to:

• Manage our own emotions
• Manage the emotions of others
• Effective communication
• Work in a team environment
• Lead by example
• Inspire
• Get Results
• Create a harmonious work environment

These new skills will make us successful in our new management role. Yes, we still will use our technical knowledge but our team will probably do most of that work.

Now as a manager we are working with and managing people that require a different skill set than that which made us successful in our technical role.

If you are already versed in EQ skills you will be just fine but if you are not, there could be a pending problem.

So how do we acquire or top up our EQ skills?

How To Aquire Our EQ Skills?

Here are 2 ways for you to acquire EQ skills.

No 1: If you are a newly appointed manager in your company you can ask your employer to skill you up in the EQ skills you need to be successful in the new role.

Most companies want to make their new managers successful and will set them up for a win/win outcome. This will probably happen automatically as you prepare for your new management role.

For some reason, if nothing is mentioned by your employer about upskilling yourself for the new position, you will need to give them a reminder and have that conversation.

Things move very quickly in corporate life and it just may be an oversight. Please remind them to ensure your success in the new role.

No 2: You can be proactive and take it upon yourself to skill yourself up to ensure your success in your new role.

For various reasons, your company may not support you in acquiring your EQ skills for an easy and successful transition into your new role and that’s ok.

Now you will take it upon yourself to skill yourself up so you can shine in your new management role and achieve all the outcomes you want.

The wonderful thing about educating ourselves is that we are the ASSET. What we learn will stay with us for the rest of our lives. We will increase our skill set, increase the value we can deliver to the company or world, and as a consequence increase our remuneration package.

I know corporations will remunerate very well those managers who are skilled in EQ and can lead their team and company to achieve their quarterly and yearly KPIs and outcomes.

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No 3: You can also learn these EQ skills through our one-to-one Executive Coaching Service.  We will work closely together with each of your challenges and specific recurring situations and create positive behaviours within you to achieve your desired win/win outcomes.

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How To Be A New, Empowering, Successful, Confident, Manager

Those managers who make it their magnificent obsession to dive deep into developing their EQ skills will definitely have the pick of which company and management role they want.

Not only will you have an outstanding career, but you can also use these same EQ skills in your personal life and create the life you’ve always wanted to experience.

We need more authentic leaders not just in corporations, we need them in governments as well as in private institutions and in the world.

Paul Simos is an accomplished Executive Life Coach, Health Coach & Certified Trainer.
He has a fundamental belief about his clients which frames how they work together i.e. they already have everything they need to achieve success. His role as a coach is to stimulate and challenge his clients to unlock their successful beliefs, skills, and behavior patterns.

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