Stepping Up
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Often, I coach people who are interested in stepping up to being a manager. Often, they say things like, “I have learned a lot in my years in (whatever industry it is) and feel I can be an asset to any place. I am looking for a manager position.”
They have never managed and their background shows no evidence that
They have done little more than manage themselves getting to work on time.
There are no shortcuts to being successful. You have to do the work and learn the lessons you need to learn and develop the experience you need to get the results you want to get.
How do you get the basic knowledge? Often that starts with asking the right people for advice in order to learn what you need to learn in order to get what you want. From there, make your mistakes.
When I worked in recruiting for a particular search firm, they asked me to train beginning recruiters. On day one, I would have them contact companies in order to see how difficult it was to get a job to work on and develop an appreciation for how hard it was to reach a new hiring manager to speak with, let alone have them receive a job to work on. Then, I would have them work to find someone to fill their own job. I wanted to them to develop an appreciation for what goes into the work and then would help them master it.
For you who want to step up, lessons learned are not going to come because someone looked around, decided they had no one internally who could do the new role and decided to hire someone from the outside with no experience in that role and give them the chance. It will come because someone knows, likes, trusts and respects you and is willing to give you a chance. Without that trust, you have no chance.
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