Away from the employee mindset
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:05 am
Find mentors
Then look for mentors - ideally those who are currently managers themselves. There are also programs at the university for this (buddy programs). Now ask these people openly: "Would you make me a team leader and why not?" - the answer to my question was very shocking for me and I wrote down the feedback in detail.
Reading tip: Finding mentors
Managers observe
In my job as a working student, I also had the opportunity to observe managers. How do they work - what do they do well and what do they do badly? What makes these people different from other people? I also worked in management consulting afterwards and was also very close to managers.
Reading tip:
Find new leadership methods
It is important that you understand that management and leadership is also a local marketing email list craft like programming etc. So you can learn it. The problem will always be that you will be accused of not having any experience. Then you will simply learn new concepts in such a way that you cannot have any experience in them because they are too new.
Established managers in particular tend to do little further training. You can set yourself apart with transformational leadership and participatory approaches. On the one hand, try to become a little like established managers, but set yourself apart with new concepts. In the end, you have to clearly stand out as a young and modern manager. In the interview, you will then have to choose between the established manager with more traditional approaches and the experimental approach with you and new methods.
Then look for mentors - ideally those who are currently managers themselves. There are also programs at the university for this (buddy programs). Now ask these people openly: "Would you make me a team leader and why not?" - the answer to my question was very shocking for me and I wrote down the feedback in detail.
Reading tip: Finding mentors
Managers observe
In my job as a working student, I also had the opportunity to observe managers. How do they work - what do they do well and what do they do badly? What makes these people different from other people? I also worked in management consulting afterwards and was also very close to managers.
Reading tip:
Find new leadership methods
It is important that you understand that management and leadership is also a local marketing email list craft like programming etc. So you can learn it. The problem will always be that you will be accused of not having any experience. Then you will simply learn new concepts in such a way that you cannot have any experience in them because they are too new.
Established managers in particular tend to do little further training. You can set yourself apart with transformational leadership and participatory approaches. On the one hand, try to become a little like established managers, but set yourself apart with new concepts. In the end, you have to clearly stand out as a young and modern manager. In the interview, you will then have to choose between the established manager with more traditional approaches and the experimental approach with you and new methods.