Adaptation to an existing team poses a significant problem when you take on a management role for a big company, especially when you arrive at the C-level or paid management level. It becomes challenging for you to survive here if you can’t handle it technically at first.
Today I’ll outline the issues that require your attention.
Observe Closely
Spend some time trying to comprehend the company’s surroundings. Let’s have a private conversation and pay attention to each team. Understand their advantages and disadvantages as well as the business’s operations. Of course, the most important thing to remember is not to try to force anything, no matter where you are from. Try to identify the parties with a stake in this business; It can be both internal and external. In the same vein, make an effort to fully comprehend the process and the type of service they are receiving from you or offering to you.
Discover the Hidden Organogram
Try to find the company’s hidden organogram or key personnel. Finding these individuals and attempting to collaborate closely with them is extremely crucial because working there will be quite difficult for you if you can’t establish a solid rapport with them.
Adapt to the Vision, Mission, and Process
You must be aware of a company’s objective and vision before you join. Additionally, you need to understand how the new organization can benefit from your experience and skill set. For instance, you won’t be able to bring everything into a structure right away if you work for a non-structured organization instead of one that is. You must consult with all interested parties and align the new structure with this corporate policy, but each company has its operating style; you must identify it and incorporate it into the structure. Your biggest mistake will be if you try to force the new organization’s structure to resemble any other organization.
Keep People in Good Humor
You must work by keeping each person in good humor. It’s likely to backfire if you try to impose something on someone. You won’t expect support from them easily. Try to come up with some inspiring instances as well. It has never been seen before by anyone at this company. It will be highly advantageous for you to be considered a leader if you can somehow demonstrate it.
Build a Team and Prove Yourself
Eradicating corruption is a major challenge. It should usually be attempted to be discovered subject to evidence a little slower. Therefore, you must first build a team. Working alone is never a viable option. And you need to make an effort to avoid corruption. The onus is on you to prove it. Before engaging in transactional stuff, you should check very well. One more thing you need to keep in mind is recruitment. If you want to bring people you know, then nobody in the company will look at it well. When you go to build a team, you should recruit different types of people. A team can never be made up of all superstars or champions. You must think with efficiency regardless of religion, caste, gender, etc.
Start a New “YOU”
You should keep making amends for the errors you committed with earlier employers. If your inferior complexities, your habits, your corruptions, or other bad qualities remain, you should come here with everything corrected. It is better not to involve yourself in purchase-type things for the first few days. Because people may suspect that you are overly enthusiastic about the purchase.
Instead of taking on low-level operational work, think about starting a new, diverse business. Also, keep in mind that there are typically two types of leadership. Collecting reports from important people or mingling with everyone. If you fit in with everyone, you’ll have too much information, which will prevent you from achieving the goals set forth in your company’s vision and mission. The team leader should be the only source of information you can contact.
Avoid Micromanagement
If you want to assign anyone a duty to carry it out anyway, he can do so as he sees fit; do not impose your rigid process on them. Even if the job is completed, when you allow someone to work according to your pattern and engage in micromanagement, that individual will lose motivation. Which can be annoying to you.
Don’t be Bureaucratic
Tackle each task with ease and avoid being overly critical. Everyone will eventually shun you if you are bureaucratic. Because people will think that you are only obstructing the work and not letting them do what they want. It should be your obligation to evenly distribute each task and offer folks simple solutions.
It is very important to prove that a C-level/management-level employee is trusted by everyone. When you can gain credibility and transmit it to everyone, people will naturally work with you as a teammate. If you fail to prove this, you will not survive long in that organization. So, if honesty can be freed from credibility and corruption, along with adding a new vision and mission, it will bring a positive image for you and the company.
Author: A.H.M. Rashed Sorwar Rupam
Director, Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited
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Insightful.