I’m starting to transition to a manager role on my team with three other peers/just one level beneath me, all who joined before me (my fishbowl title is outdated). Does anyone have advice for making this awkward transition? My peers on my team are men and really really nice, same age as well. I’m just worried it’ll be awkward or frustrating for them. I’m not moving to directly manage them yet, but I’m being more of our teams lead in terms of organizing and distributing our projects

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Make it obvious why you’re now a manager (you have a stronger skill set than them in what you’ll be doing, right?) and defend/fight for them if they’re ever in conflict with other people, and/or during annual appraisals

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Suggest you read The First 90 Days. There's a chapter in this type of transition as well as a lot of tools in what you need to do differently to be impactful as a leader as opposed to an individual contributor.

Congratulations and good luck!

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I’m not in consulting anymore, so this is my team that I am always working with (startup)

Thank you! I’ll get that book

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