I had the chance to enter a new organization, building a new team from existing people. It’s a bit different, but the challenges are the same, and you captured them well :)
For me, the biggest mistake was to no work closely enough with other team leaders. While I didn’t alienate the team members, the fact that I always took there side alienated the rest of the organization…
Yea, the challenge you brought up makes sense when you start managing people you already have a great rapport with. I would love to read more about how you fixed the relationship thereafter.
I actually didn’t know those people, we assembled them from different teams. As they were the most junior in each team, it was easier for me to build a sense of ‘A team’ fast.
About fixing it - honestly, I didn’t really. We delivered the results, and that’s what the VP cared about. After I left I had some important conversation with the other team leaders and we finished on good terms, but it was a bit too late to affect the work :)
The teams weren’t very dependent on each others so it was never my top priority unfortunately.
Good article!! Thanks for sharing !!
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I had the chance to enter a new organization, building a new team from existing people. It’s a bit different, but the challenges are the same, and you captured them well :)
For me, the biggest mistake was to no work closely enough with other team leaders. While I didn’t alienate the team members, the fact that I always took there side alienated the rest of the organization…
Yea, the challenge you brought up makes sense when you start managing people you already have a great rapport with. I would love to read more about how you fixed the relationship thereafter.
I actually didn’t know those people, we assembled them from different teams. As they were the most junior in each team, it was easier for me to build a sense of ‘A team’ fast.
About fixing it - honestly, I didn’t really. We delivered the results, and that’s what the VP cared about. After I left I had some important conversation with the other team leaders and we finished on good terms, but it was a bit too late to affect the work :)
The teams weren’t very dependent on each others so it was never my top priority unfortunately.