When you land a new job, there’s a ton to learn. You not only need to learn the business, but you also need to learn how best to use your team.
You may get lucky and walk into a perfectly performing team, but chances are, you’re going to have to make some changes.
To make those decisions, though, you’ll need the support of the team. How do you gain their support?
And how do you determine what does and does not need to be done? Hang, on, here we go.
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Thanks for this! I only wish this had been around when I took over an existing team in December 2014. Up until that point I had worked at a very small company from the day it opened until the day it closed. Although I’d led a small two-person team and indirectly managed others, I’d never in my career taken over an existing team. It was so much harder than I thought it would be! I had a very vague idea of what I should be doing, but nothing prepared me for the interpersonal dynamics of dealing with two people who were the whole department until that point; in addition to myself, two other people were added and we all started on the same date. I got through it, but I suspect I would have had better results in a shorter amount of time if I’d had this information.