Colleague becoming Manager

Gael23

A bit of a reshuffle going in at work and one of my team members is being promoted to Manager of our team. How in a professional sense do you manage that transition? The person in question works from home most of the time so we don’t see each other physically very much but he knows how to do anything so we would be in contact several times a week.

WashYourHands

Whats the issue?

con747

+1

bilbot79

Just accept they outrank you now and kindly kneel before zod

antimatterx

It happened to my team before I joined. One of the developers became the manager. She had a rapid rise, she was a developer for about 18 months and got promoted to an engineering manager. People had respect for her before, and even more now due to her new position. She is one of the most crucial employees in the company, and my team loves having her as our manager.

Kylta

Do you think he should have got the position?

Limpy

When they walk past you in the canteen and don't return your salute, you can tell you're colleagues she/used to be cool before. Reminis about the stuff they did as the Xmas party.

Rodney Bathgate

antimatterx wrote: »

It happened to my team before I joined. One of the developers became the manager. She had a rapid rise, she was a developer for about 18 months and got promoted to an engineering manager. People had respect for her before, and even more now due to her new position. She is one of the most crucial employees in the company, and my team loves having her as our manager.

This didn’t really happen.

Strumms

Gael23 wrote: »

A bit of a reshuffle going in at work and one of my team members is being promoted to Manager of our team. How in a professional sense do you manage that transition? The person in question works from home most of the time so we don’t see each other physically very much but he knows how to do anything so we would be in contact several times a week.

You don’t do anything, most of the transition work will be on their behalf. They have to adjust from a scenario of being colleagues with you guys, having the craic now to a job with more responsibility and forging a new type of working and workplace relationship/relationships.

Be careful though.. a lot of new managers try and make an impression and instill that loyalty is first to the employer and management colleagues ahead of ex line colleagues which is usually a dangerous thing, tread carefully around them for a bit.

krissovo

Gael23 wrote: »

How in a professional sense do you manage that transition? The person in question works from home most of the time so we don’t see each other physically very much but he knows how to do anything so we would be in contact several times a week.

Not much changes unless you or other team members are bitter, carry on as normal and support them with the changes they will make.

Working from home is the new normal and has been normal for years outside of Ireland.

antimatterx

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

This didn’t really happen.

Except it did.