Got promoted to design manager 🙌🏽
Any advice you wish someone gave you when you first lead a team?

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Be friends but not buddy's, you need some separation there.

Learn everyone's strengths and interests so you can delegate tasks, but also give people work they are interested in or interested in learning if timeline isn't too tight.

If you ever have to decide who gets to stay and who has to go (recession coming), don’t choose the easy way out and base it on something like who got hired last, base it on whose skill sets best fit what will be required going forward. People won’t like you for cutting a coworker but at least they can respect your rationale. How you act when things suck is more important than how you act when things are great.

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