First Management Job - Any Tips

Carb

I'm after been offered my first management role. Its a new job completely rather than an internal promotion. I'll be head financial guy on site reporting to an off site financial controller. As a bit of background, the site has sales of approx 80m, and is part of a company with sales over 1 billion. I'm a 26 year old accountancy finalist with 6 years experience, but never had to manage a team before, although in some jobs there has been a certain level of delegating. I'll now have to manage seven people, some finance, some admin.

I was just wondering had anyone here any advice as anyone who has a mangement role now had to have had their first one at some stage. Is meeting all the staff as early as possible to discuss what they do, find out a bit about them a good way of breaking the ice. Are there any major pitfalls to be avoided(like asking are they happy with their salary;) ). Also bearing in mind that most of the existing staff will probably be older than me and will know more about the company than me, I don't want to loose my authority straight away.

BTW, I don't want the above to sound like I'll be some sort of quivering wreck going into the role. I'm actually looking forward to it, I just don't want to shoot mysellf in the foot in the first couple of days.

Karoma

TBH

Sposs

Treat your staff like adults and have faith in their ability to do the job unless you see otherwise.Most managers try and get too hands on or try to tell ppl how to do their job - that pisses ppl off.