How does your role change going from senior to manager?

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Intern: useless slide monkey
Staff: slightly less useless slide monkey
Senior: experienced slide monkey
Manager: slide monkey that manages the dumber monkeys
Senior manager: stressed out slide monkey that manages the others and sells slides too
Partner: complacent slide gorilla

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Went from research/shitty jobs/aligning slides to more PMO, managing a team and ultimately being responsible for the output/project delivery

The hours are the same but the work switches from doing the actual grunt work to more of ‘managing, giving comments and ultimate responsibility of the deck’

Requires good time management skills, high EQ, patience, attention to detail, leadership and tacit diplomacy, managing up and down.

The better you train your team/juniors, the easier the job becomes over time

Your teams success = Your success so invest time in their development

Source: SC to M (few months ago) and those have been my key learnings so far

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Now you have to be a baby sitter

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Well, now you have to be responsible for all the bonehead seniors

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Doesn’t apply to me, I’m special

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A lil more money be one step closer to the top of the pyramid scheme

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You become a glorified baby sitter and therapist. And you have to police every word you say bc, overnight, your words have (unfortunately) a major effect on many people’s self esteem.

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You do mo’ business. Mo’ politics too. And mo’ mentoring as well. That’s a mo’ mo’ in working hours terms too.

You get more baddies

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