Handling your promotion successfully

  • Your peers feel they lost? Win them over.
  • Use a "we" attitude...avoid gloating!
  • Don't let it go to your head...you'll need support.
  • Let "losers" for the job know what you value them for...not as minions, obviously, but as partners.
  • Listen and try to understand their needs and how you can form alliances with them for mutual success.

Headed for a tumble?
  • Balance learning from your new peers with showing them what you can do.
  • Identify your key internal customers...other than your new boss.
  • Show more interest in issues important to your higher level peers.
  • Manage your anxiety so that you avoid excessively short term actions.
  • Think about how you can help your boss look good.
  • Develop any change agendas in conjunction with key stakeholders.
  • Don't present fully developed ideas simply to prove yourself.

See also the ''new broom'' syndrome - the tendency to sweep aside team members that come with your new job.

 

All pages written by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. and copyright © Self Renewal Group 1996-2010

 
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