Question for Department Managers

[The Franchise]

I'm also interested. I'm up for a promotion right now where I'd be in charge of the entire office. I don't have any managerial experience and I tend to give employees leeway on working on their own stuff so that I can handle my workload.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

I'm also interested. I'm up for a promotion right now where I'd be in charge of the entire office. I don't have any managerial experience and I tend to give employees leeway on working on their own stuff so that I can handle my workload.

The tough mindset to break is that your own workload as a manager should not include tasks, and it should just involve helping others do tasks. I have challenges with that even though I should know better, but sometimes I look around and say, "Y'know, I'm the best guy to do that." I really shouldn't.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

The tough mindset to break is that your own workload as a manager should not include tasks, and it should just involve helping others do tasks. I have challenges with that even though I should know better, but sometimes I look around and say, "Y'know, I'm the best guy to do that." I really shouldn't.

I won't have that opportunity though. I'm having to keep some of my tasks because they'll be eliminating my position if/when I get promoted. So I'll still have a good majority of the work I do now....I'll just have running the office and supervising 7 people on top of it.