I got promoted! Woot!!!

Hi, First of all let me congratulate you on your promotion. It is good to see that you already recognize that team management roles are different from technical roles. It took me a couple of years myself to transition into these roles. You need to have a clear understanding of two things. One is that from here on it really does not matter what you do, but what really matters is what you achieve as a team. Secondly, more than the technical skills it is going to be soft skills that are going to be your biggest ally. I would recommend that you can start looking at attending some soft skills training like conflict resolution skills, time management skills and emotional intelligence skills. You also might need to equip yourself with skills to track the teams activities, you can start taking some baby steps towards project management. PMI PMP could be one of the things you can target for in the near future. Cheers and all the best!! Ram

Way to go there !!!! Very happy for you. Im sure it means more money and benefits as well??

That's nice you would have better job position. Maybe you can still try to tell those under you what they need to do signori p without you feeling like you are somewhat demanding them to do things or getting like too bossy. You can still be you and still be the leader of your team

Dear friend, Congratulations. This promotion is the true recognition of your untiring efforts, sincerity and dedication to your job. It is not a gift from your authority, rather I should say that you have achieved it through your hard work, sincerity and dedication to your service. I hope that you will continue your efforts in future as well and you will further get higher promotion. Have a very blessed weekend.

Congratulations! Good for you. Well, I have been a supervisor for 4 years. And I think the best lesson I have learned is to never get too familiar with your staffs. Yes, be the approachable and open supervisor, as you would always want to hear the team's suggestions and troubles that can greatly affect the whole team's performance. But, no personal familiarity. Don't go there. I have been crashed and burned because I just let myself get too close to one of my staffs. And she became lax. We ended having to dismiss here and there goes our friendship.

Congratulations! I used to work as a branch supervisor before and I managed people under me. I had some difficulties with my staff since we have different personalities. You can't please everyone and you can't avoid the reality that there are people who don't like you. The primary thing you have to do is try to be a friend with your staff but also set a boundary or limitation with your relationship with them. It is good to have some simple chats with them about their work and non-work issues but you should not be that too close with them as well. If they know you are an approachable leader, they will find it easy to talk with you about their concerns but if get too close with them.. they might end up losing respect with you. You have to balance everything. Be friendly and be respectable as well.

Congratulations! We can see that your hardwork pays. I'm sure you'll learn more and improve in your Supervisor position. I were once a production supervisor in a company, and I think the most important is we have to earn people respect & trust, esp in own team. Then I'm sure you'll find out managing people is not that difficult.