Your First Day on The Job
What Should You Be Doing to Be Effective?
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So, you’ve just begun your first day in a team lead position. Congratulations!
If you’ve arrived from outside the organization, you’re probably busy with induction meetings, getting your desk set up (erm, what’s the WiFi password?), and forgetting your pass for the third time when visiting the bathroom. If you’ve been promoted internally, you may be beaming with pride, or you may be anxious about how your relationship is going to change with your peers. In fact, are you still allowed to hang out with Jim and Ana on weekends now that you’re managing them?
Depending on how much preparation time you’ve had, you may have a plan for your first week. However, for many new managers, it’s likely that you may not have a clear picture of what you should actually be doing with your time in this role. What is your output? It used to be JIRA tickets and deploys to live, and now it’s… stuff.
The truth is that no organization is the same in its approach to management. You may have had…
