If the answer to your questions around “How are you” is fine for multiple weeks from a report, take it as a sign to prod further!.No matter what work you do or the size of your team, knowing how to diagnose and solve problems with your reports is critical to your shared success.You will be far more successful aspiring to be the leader you want to be and playing to your strengths than trying to live up to some other ideal.Being vulnerable sometimes helps in generating trust You need to proactively invest in building relationships.To get honest feedback from your reportees, ask how their dream manager looks like.To have hard conversations, it is essential to internalise that you own your team’s outcomes.The playbook varies depending on whether one is a freshly minted manager (apprentice), founding team member grown into a managerial role, new boss leading the team internally or an external hire or a successor replacing someone What to do in the first 3 months as a manager? Also leadership is not something that can be bestowed.If you can pinpoint a problem and motivate others to work with you to solve it, then you’re leading.While manager is a specific role, leadership is the particular skill of being able to guide and influence other people and therefore in order to be a great manager, one has to be a leader!.Can you provide stability for an emotionally charged situation?.Do you find it more motivating to achieve an outcome or play a specific role?.How to know if you will be a great manager?.Role is to improve and process people or the purpose of the team! However if you are in survival mode, do what it takes! Your role as a manager is not to do the work yourself, even if you are the best at it, because that will only take you so far.Manager’s tasks can be filled into 3 buckets – people, process and purpose (making the team aware of what success looks like and ensure they care about achieving it).Being awesome at the job means playing the long game and building a reputation for excellence.Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together and therefore if the team’s outcomes are mediocre, you cannot be termed as a great manager.create processes to get work done smoothly and efficiently.support members in reaching their career goals, and.What follows is my key takeaways in the order in which they appear in the book

That should however not deter you from imbibing the deep lessons embedded in the short 10 chapters of this book. That said, the overall tone of the subject matter is generalist in nature and may not especially cover for the peculiarities that PM managers face.

You would find this book easy to read (can be finished over the weekend), situations relatable and advice quite sensible to put into action immediately. Cover of the Book: “The making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo

The making of a manager book