Hey guys. I am just starting a management roll after leaving the worst job of my life. One of my reasons for leaving was the lack of room for upward trajectory. This unfortunately means I have never managed full-time employees before.
I have managed people, but mostly college interns who had super low-pressure jobs. I know interns are real employees but they had it pretty good actually. They were paid, we were super flexible with their schedules, and time off was always granted (if only every workplace could be like that). As a person who worked with them, I always made sure to give them projects that aligned with the skills they wanted to develop. I haven’t ever really met resistance because of it and worry I don’t have what it takes.
What advice do you have for me as a sort of new manager? How do I create a similar nurturing environment when I can’t offer these people that same environment the interns had? I’m going to have to be the bad guy sometimes now, and I hate that.