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  1. Poorvi Shrivastav
    Poorvi Shrivastav

    Meta Senior Director of Product Management • 4y

    Establish connections with your team - a mutual shared understanding of individual values and drivers is important to building a cohesive team. The first step towards that comes from building connections by getting to know more about your team members. Be empathetic but also efficient in delivering outcomes - don't shy away from giving feedback. I made this mistake early on. Timely, example driven and action focussed feedback can drive huge value for you and your team. This might be trivial but ...Read More

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  2. Sanchit Juneja
    Sanchit Juneja

    Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • 4y

    Managing a team can be , simultaneously, the most rewarding and most frustrating aspect of your career, hence choose wisely

    For most, managing people becomes a forced transition in search for personal growth-> this is very dangerous, coz if you can't manage people (and people are idiosynchratic) than you and your reportees end up having a bad experience

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  3. Mike Flouton
    Mike Flouton

    Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 4y

    The biggest trap new managers consistently fall into is relying on what got them where they are. As a new manager, you probably got promoted because you were a rockstar PM. One of my favorite parts of the (American) “The Office” is the 2-3 times they show Michael Scott go out on a sales call. Until you see that, your image of Michael is that of a completely incompetent, offensive and completely unqualified manager. But as a salesperson in the field he’s incredible. Clearly he got promoted due to ...Read More

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  4. Rahul Abhyankar
    Rahul Abhyankar

    Advantage Solutions Chief Product Officer • 2y

    Four areas are important to focus on for new managers: Understand the Team: Just as you feel anxious about your role as a new manager, realize that your new team also feels anxious about reporting to you. They will want to ensure that you have context about their role and their work at the company, as well as their overall experience. It is worthwhile to invest the time to get to know them. Learn about their individual goals and objectives. Understand Impact: As you interact with your manager an ...Read More

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