Making the Most of Your First Three Months as a New Manager by Julie Zhuo
So you’ve been promoted or hired as the newly instated manager of a team. What now?
No matter how you’ve arrived at your new role, congratulations are in order, because this much is true: Somebody — more likely many people — believed in you and your potential to lead a team.
Depending on what got you to this point, different things may be easy or hard for you in your first three months. Your path here probably took one of these four routes:
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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