“Wait! They are my manager?”
Managing isn’t just for managers. Matter of fact, at some point in your career, you have come across managers who manage, managers who lead, some who balance both, and likely some who do neither. While you’ve been honing your skills, preparing for the next steps on your career journey, and growing your capacity, you keep running into people who seem to have skipped the honing, preparing, and growing and seemingly out of nowhere, just became a manager. And now, they’re your manager.
So, what do you do? Stay out of the way? Focus on your own work? Vent to colleagues? Manage up?
